Holly Simmonds
About me
The Wave Clinic is my West Sussex home-based practice, where I see adults, couples and young people in a confidential environment. I offer short, medium and long-term therapy.
I am a qualified and experienced UKCP-registered Humanistic & Integrative Psychotherapist, Counsellor and Advanced Transactional Analysis Practitioner.
I believe in an empathic, integrative, and collaborative approach to therapy and work with clients who experience multiple issues.
These include anxiety, ADHD, autism, stress, depression, menopausal issues, attachment & childhood issues, abuse/sexual, physical or psychological, trauma & PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), self-harm, eating disorders, grief & bereavement, acquired brain injury, post-concussion syndrome support, stroke, alcohol and drug addiction/dependency, low self-confidence and low self-confidence.
I have a particular interest in working with complex health issues, adversity in childhood, trauma, women’s health/menopause, M.E and CFS.
We are all human and although our minds and bodies want to work the right way for us, the balance can easily go array in today’s busy world and we can lose sight of where we are in our lives.
- As a compassionate and emphatic therapist, I will work with you, metaphorically walking beside you, using my experience and clinical knowledge in Counselling and Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy. I will help you become more aware of what thoughts, feelings, beliefs and behaviours are impacting you in your life.
- I offer an open-minded, nonjudgmental space for you to discover why you have reached this point in your life. We will discuss your therapeutic choices, the length of therapy you are considering and how we will work together to help you move towards any changes you would like to make.
- Ensuring your therapy is tailored to your needs, I hope to create a safe and confidential environment where I will work alongside you with my therapeutic approaches and interventions, guiding you through your journey to a greater understanding of yourself.
I am a UKCP-registered Humanistic & Integrative Psychotherapist, able to provide the additional capacity of referring to a network of contacts and colleagues, ensuring you get the help that is right for you.
Qualifications and Training
UKCP-registered Humanistic & Integrative Psychotherapist
UKATA Advanced Practitioner in Transactional Analysis
Diploma in Counseling MNCPS (Accred)
UKATA Diploma in Transactional Analysis Practice
Advanced Counselling Skills
BSc (Hons) Sports Performance
Foundation Certificate Transactional Analysis
TA 101
Diploma in Hypno-NLP
Diploma in Hypnotherapy
Drug & alcohol therapist
Principles and Ethical Codes of Practice
My qualifications are fully accredited and recognised by the relevant governing bodies of which I am a member – UKATA, NCPS and the UKCP. As part of my ongoing commitment to my clients and my own continued professional development, I have clinical supervision and therapy.
I am fully insured with public liability cover and hold an enhanced DBS.
As a therapist, I take my ‘Duty of Care’ for you seriously. This means ensuring your therapy is empathetic, fully supportive, and confidential. To uphold this, I underpin my practice with UKATA and the UKCP’s code of ethics and confidentiality.
Guiding Principles
- Open communication
- Above all doing no harm
- Working with 'The contractural method’
Philosophical beliefs
- Everyone is OK
- Everyone has the capacity to think and influence their life by the decisions they make
- Any decision can be changed