Welcome to Brighton Therapy Service
We offer friendly, professional therapy in Brighton and Hove and online.
We provide support for adults, young people, children, and families, as well as professional supervision. With many years of experience between us, we pride ourselves on an inclusive, sensitive, and warm approach.
Therapy is flexible and tailored to your individual needs—whether short-term or long-term—with expertise across a wide range of issues.
If you would like to arrange a time for an initial chat, please contact either Rose or Michele.
You can also learn more about each of us and our individual approaches on our separate pages.
MEET OUR THERAPISTS
Michele Karban
Michelle has over thirty years of experience in the caring profession and has been working as a psychotherapist for more than twenty years. Before training as a psychotherapist, I worked as a residential social worker in a children’s home for adolescent girls.
Rose Maxwell
Rose is a very experienced therapist and has a private practice at Fiveways Brighton. Rose has experience with a wide range of problems and children’s worries, from shyness or low confidence, academic or friendship troubles, difficulties in family relationships, divorce and bereavement, to eating disorders and medical problems.
Our Blog
Tangible Rewards
Half-Term: Tangible Rewards for Parents and Children In half term week it is important to have a positive approach to boundaries so that everyone including the parents can relax. School Holidays are great for children and can bring some terrific opportunities for...
Does Diagnosis Matter?
What's in a Name: Does Diagnosis Matter? I wonder if you recognise these words, “Tis but thy name that is my enemy?” Probably not. How about this line, “...That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet?” Of course, now we're getting warmer! That is...
Should Police Look for Runaways?
Why Can’t the Police Keep Working With us to Support the Runaways? The Police recently announced a change in approach when children are reported missing especially, where children are in care. An article published by the Guardian says: ...A radical new approach was...
Managing emotional storms in your child part 3
Why teenagers are like spring bulbs Rose and Michele have been thinking about how bulbs really do all the growing when you are not looking and you have to endure the long hard winter with frozen ground floods horrible winds just like we have been having here this...
Managing emotional storms in your child part 2
This week, Rose gives some helpful tips in setting boundaries with children. Setting Limits Children need structure and to know clearly what is expected of them. Here are some helpful hints about how to keep the communication clear open and supportive whilst saying...
Managing emotional storms in your child part 1
Over the next few weeks, Rose will be offering some ideas and support in relating and responding to children. In this post Rose gives an example of how recognising a child's big feeling and responding with empathy can really help in connecting with children's...
Child Therapists needed to work in Brighton primary schools
Dolphin House Charity is looking to contract self-employed, qualified child therapists to work in a number of primary and nursery schools in Brighton. This is a great opportunity to join Dolphin House and be part of a well established charity that has been providing...
Rose Maxwell Arrives
Rose Maxwell Arrives at Brighton Therapy Service A short while ago, an announcement was made here on the Brighton Therapy Service web site that Rose Maxwell was joining with Michele Karban. Well, I have arrived and I must say, I'm thrilled to be a part of this...
Rose Maxwell Joins BTS
Welcome Rose Maxwell Brighton Therapy Service is excited to announce that Rose Maxwell is joining Michele Karban on brightontherapyservice.co.uk. Whilst Rose and Michele are both independent therapists, by joining together online a more comprehensive range of...
A Great Book For Teenagers and Their Parents!
Blame My Brain by Nicola Morgan This is a brilliant book, which I regularly recommend to parents and teenagers. In the past fifteen years enormous leaps have been made in the understanding of the human brain. In this book, Nicola Morgan writes about the neuroscience...