I’m a qualified experienced counsellor based in Brighton, working with men both in person and online (via Zoom) on a wide range of emotional, behavioural, and relationship challenges.
For over twenty years I have specialised in working with men on issues such as relationships, anger management, stress, family, work, low self worth, unwanted habits and compulsions, anxiety, coping, pessimism, grumpiness, moods, porn misuse, infidelity, erectile dysfunction, and sexuality.
● My name is Tim Pike. I am a BACP accredited counsellor. I qualified in 2008. I was awarded senior accreditation in 2018. I work from my private practice in central Brighton. I have been working continually with men since 2005.
● I trained as a psychotherapist and counsellor with Chichester Counselling Services 2004-2008. I delivered therapeutic groups continually for a public sector providers from 2005 to 2018. Simultaneously, I have been working one-to-one with counselling clients since 2005. I have been supervised continually at every point.
● Prior to this, I have a lengthy academic background as well as holding down various jobs in sales, banking, voluntary work, social care work and pastoral care.
● I have personally benefited from psychotherapy myself with both short and long term work on several occasions for a wide variety of different issues which started with family bereavement.
● I have a BACP specialist accreditation for supervising other fellow counsellors
● I have a diploma in psychotherapeutic counselling from Chichester Counselling Services 2008.
● I have degrees in Law (Lancaster), Divinity (London), and Community and Criminal Justice (de Montfort, Leicester).
If you’re dealing with anger, stress, frustration, relationship difficulties, unwanted habits, or personal patterns you can’t seem to shift, you’re not alone. These are exactly the kinds of challenges I help men work through.
My approach is straightforward, practical, and tailored to the realities men face, and helps you understand what’s going on and move toward real, lasting change.”
● anger management
● relationships
● stress
● unhelpful behaviours and habits
● self confidence and low self worth
● anxiety and depression
● sexuality and identity
● anger management
My main specialism is better management of anger. I've been successfully working alongside men on this issue for over twenty years.
There are several approaches I use. One is to simply vent and off load known anger but in a safe and confidential space.
Another would be locating any hidden past anger from perhaps seemingly non-angry but resentful situations which somehow got beneath the skin and have remained.
There may well be some other hidden feelings beneath the anger that either the anger itself is sort of needed to mask, to protect us from feeling the emotional pain, or the hidden feelings which are actually fueling the anger. Looking for and locating these hidden painful vulnerable feelings can make potentially huge differences and big permanent changes within.
A separate approach would be using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). I can help create skills, strategies and tactics tailored to you to better manage unwanted intense emotions.
For example, how to learn to recognise the earliest signs you are about to become angry so you have more time, valuable seconds maybe, to chose and prepare how to respond to the imminent rage and potential temper, so to swerve an eruption or harm to a relationship.
The challenges you may face:
pressures and stress from family, self, partner, work, ex, money, changes, moods, secrets, dilemmas, failures, isolation, disconnection, loneliness, overwhelmed.
Negative feelings you might be having right now:
irritated, flat, lonely, worried, lost, trapped, furious, unwanted, used, unappreciated, confused, a low priority, betrayed, low, wanting some fairness.
Goals you want to achieve:
direction, motivation, clarity, integration within self and among others, some get up and go, raised self worth, sharper knowledge of how you really operate and function, better self management, ghosts laid to rest, peace.