Portfolio concept — Stillpoint Therapy and Michael Deane are fictional. Designed by Alexander Watson Studio.

Stillpoint Therapy
Counselling — Lewes, East Sussex, and online

Somewhere to stop for a while.

Sometimes the thing that brought you here is obvious. Sometimes life simply no longer feels quite like yours.

Arrange a first conversation

A wide estuary in flat light. A low far shore separates the water from the sky.
The Ouse below Lewes, in the hour before the weather changes.

Most people who come here are not in crisis. They are managing. They are going to work, answering messages, doing the things that need doing.

They have simply reached a point where something needs saying out loud, and there is nowhere ordinary to say it.

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What people bring

There is no single reason to start. These are the three most common, and each of them has a page of its own.

After a deathGrief that has gone on longer than people expect. Grief that arrived late. A death you have not really talked about with anyone.When things changeSeparation. Redundancy. Children leaving. Retirement. Illness in the family. The end of something you had built your life around.If therapy is unfamiliarWhat actually happens, for people who have never done this and would rather know before they arrive.
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Michael Deane

I have worked as a counsellor for eighteen years, the first eleven of them in a hospice and a bereavement service. Before that I did something else entirely, for a long time, and I was not especially happy doing it.

I am quiet in the room. I ask questions when they are useful and stay out of the way when they are not. I do not talk in the language of therapy, and I will not ask you to.

More about how I came to this work

A rendered wall in raking light, its surface broken into fine grain and small hollows.
Consulting room, second floor. The building is older than the practice by about two hundred years.
Rough ground and reeds dissolving into mist, with a pale band of water beyond.
Between the town and the river. Nothing much happens here, which is the point.
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How this works

The practical parts, without having to look for them.

Sessions
55 minutes, weekly, at the same time each week.
Where
A consulting room on Fisher Street, Lewes. Tuesday to Thursday in person; Monday and Friday online.
Fee
£70 a session.

A small number of places at £45.

First contact
An email or a phone call. Then 20 minutes, free of charge, to work out whether to meet.

What happens, step by step

You do not need to know what is wrong before you get in touch. Most people don't. That is usually what the first conversation is for.

hello@stillpointtherapy.co.uk