Clare Landgrebe Counselling

Counselling and Psychotherapy in Pulborough near Horsham

I am a professional therapist with 15 years experience of working with couples and individuals. I work from a private consulting room in Pulborough, with parking easily available and 20 minutes walk from railway station on the Victoria line and within easy reach of Horsham, Billingshurst, Petworth, Arundel, Storrington, Steyning, Littlehampton, Worthing, Chichester and Midhurst in West Sussex.

I offer a confidential environment which may enable clients to think about their feelings through considering their life experiences. These may encompass general, daily life anxieties or complex and difficult situations.

My approach is psychodynamic, regarding each person as unique in the way that they experience life with its dilemmas, conflicts, traumas, contradictory feelings, desires, dreams, hopes and aspirations. My therapeutic approach aims to enable the client to find new ways of developing greater understanding of their inner world and how this can affect their relationships and experience in the world around them. This can help to develop purpose and meaning which can lead to a different way forward.


Each person considering therapy has different needs and concerns. Areas that might be covered in counselling are:

Personal Development ~ a need or desire for increased understanding, meaning and fulfilment. Sometimes, the demands of personal and professional relationships may require increased self awareness which can then lead to a greater clarity of thought and awareness of feelings which may have been hindered by past experiences


Relationship Experiences ~ I have been working with couples for 15 years. Understanding our relationship to others is complex. Relationships can often be intricate and difficult, and, particularly when conflicts arise, can feel lonely as one tries to find a way to move forward. Painful and unresolved feelings can be linked to past patterns, and a way forward can be achieved through discovering insight and understanding.


Times of Crisis ~ crisis can arrive in many ways, such as moving house, changing job, redundancy, work burn-out, relationship break up, divorce, loss and bereavement, illness, trauma or abuse. It can be helpful to talk about these difficult experiences with someone who is not involved.


Lack of Vitality in Making Change Happen ~ deep-seated change may be desired but help may be needed to develop this. Time, space and understanding may be required to reflect, evaluate and explore, in order that some new experience can arrive or evolve from within.


Low, Down or Depressed Feelings ~ these feelings can be characterised by experiences of ongoing irritability or annoyance, worry, stress, sense of futility, confusion, ambivalence, sudden mood changes, listlessness, loneliness or anxiety. Often depression cannot be explained or rationalised but leave the person either numbed or anxiously casting around for a way to find understanding and resolution.


Anxious Feelings ~ there can be times, themes or patterns of feeling misunderstood, overwhelmed, abandoned or rejected. The nature of these feelings can leave the person feeling alone and lonely and needing to find a calm place of relief inside.


Angry and Resentful Feelings ~ anger, rage, and resentment can be confusing and difficult to deal with, sometimes arriving when least expected, and then emerging in moody behaviour affecting relationships. Difficult feelings like these often need to be heard but can be easily misunderstood when voiced before they have been carefully examined and thought through sufficiently to establish the core of their meaning.


Life's Complexities and Difficulties ~ making sense of who you are in the world can feel disorientating and disturbing in trying to find a way forward. This can be affected by concerns around questioning or seeking to understand personal, gender or sexual identity. Thoughts about parenting, or having been parented can affect many people and can often be frustrating for those wanting to find ways towards validating choices and making decisions.




"Life cannot go forward except from the place where one happens to be"
C.G.Jung