Benjamin Sonnex
Core process Psychotherapy

Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy
Available at Wilderness Wood (East Sussex) and Online

My psychotherapy practice offers a safe, non-judgemental space for you if you are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, frustrated, confused or lonely.Together, we can explore what you bring with openness, kindness and gentleness, allowing you to express your authentic feelings and find your own answers.I am a therapist who can support you to sit compassionately with whatever inner or outer challenges you might be facing. By doing so, you will discover your own courage and capacity to change the things within you and in your surrounding life, things that might feel impossible or unchangeable.Our therapeutic alliance can provide a unique reflective space where you are listened to carefully, helped to make sense of your experiences and supported with the choices in your life.My intention is to help you heal your trust in your own inner compass and empower you to prioritise your intrinsic health, goodness and wellbeing, through your own intentional choices.May you be well.
May you be free from suffering and ill-will.
May you experience love, peace, kindness and joy.If you would like to explore working together then please - Get in touch - I offer a free initial 45 minute online-consultation for this purpose.

I practice here, at the Health Hut in Wilderness Wood
This is a place to feel our healing connection with natureWe can also meet together online

About me

My name is Benjamin Sonnex. I am a Psychotherapist and my therapy modality is Core Process Psychotherapy.Core Process Psychotherapy is the practice of mindfulness in the intimate relationship formed between you, my client and I, your therapist. This mindfulness based therapy combines Buddhist and Western psychology to support our shared, deeply compassionate inquiry into the nature of any kind of emotional and spiritual challenge you might need support with. My practice involves deep relational attunement to you that allows the deepest relational wounds to finally be met and healed in an authentically kind and compassionate relationship, within safe and healthy relational boundaries.I began my psychotherapy training in 2021. This part of my own personal life journey was initiated in response to my own experiences of deep relational suffering and an intuition that I held life-long relational wounds from my childhood. An instinctive part of me recognised that my coping strategies were no longer working and that I needed to meet my pain in a new and different way. I felt a strong pull to follow the feeling in my heart - a deep longing to experience an enduring sense of calm, ease, love and peace, that instinctively felt possible.I am now an Advanced Student of Core Process Psychotherapy at the renowned Karuna Institute, accredited by the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). My work is supported by my own weekly psychotherapy, and I have regular psychotherapeutic supervision with expert practitioners to support me to work safely, ethically and with integrity.Through the practice of this healing modality I have rediscovered a deep sense of compassion towards myself and towards others, and from this experience of compassion, my sense of love and belonging in the world and with others has flowered. I now feel a dimension of my life that feels profound, sacred and reassuring. This gives me faith that even the deepest relational wounds can be healed when met with openness, non-judgment, spaciousness and the passage of time, in the company of genuinely loving individuals, beings such as animals, and/or even natural environments. I believe there is an inherent wholeness and belonging at the core of everyone and everything, that can heal us if we can support one another to turn towards it.Alongside my private practice, I work with psychotherapy clients at the Macmillan Horizon Centre based in Brighton and Hove. My work here has gifted me with the honour of walking alongside and supporting inspirational individuals, overcoming the most challenging of personal and familial circumstances, that is, coming into relationship their own mortality or that of their most cherished loved ones. The work we share together is wide and deep, touching on all areas of life with a vitality that is characteristic of being in contact with the deepest personal and interpersonal spiritual roots of our common experience as human beings. I feel honoured to meet and walk alongside each individual in this intimate and vulnerable capacity.I have also been working since February 2024 as a Healthcare Assistant in NHS mental health hospital wards and a Recovery Advisor in NHS funded community crisis support services. In these settings I have sat with and supported people experiencing acutely overwhelming life circumstances and correspondingly overwhelming states of impaired mental health. My experiences have served to strengthen my resolve that the even most challenging life circumstances can be transformed and repaired through the re-humanising effect of genuinely compassionate human relationship and heartfelt support.Together, we can spend time being with your difficult experiences - ones that might have lead to you feeling stuck or hopeless in the past. It is by this process of accepting and sitting with difficult, seemingly stuck feelings and experiences, that your inner compass will find the space to shine through and for real, lasting change to happen.I practice in-person at Wilderness Wood, Hadlow Down in East Sussex (TN22 4HJ) and also online.If you would like to explore working together then please - Get in touch - I offer a free initial 45 minute online-consultation for this purpose.

Fees & Working Together

The first step, is to contact me by email to express your interest in us working together:[email protected]

The next step, I offer an initial 45 minute online-consultation.
This consultation session is free-of-charge and no obligation.I believe it is important that you feel safe, comfortable and attuned to in my presence. Our initial session enables us to decide whether it would be helpful for us to work together. We will discuss what has brought you to therapy, what you want from therapy and the key issues arising from this.Once we are working together:I charge £50 per session
I offer reduced fee places, subject to availability. You are welcome to ask me about this during our initial consultation.Sessions are for 60 minutes.
This is based on my personal experience that exploring our process deeply and with kindness, benefits from this longer session-length.I usually suggest that we initially commit to working together for six weeks and then kindly review where we are at this point.Cancellations: I have a 48 hour notice period for cancellations. Failing to give notice will incur the full charge of the session.

Contact

If you would like to arrange a free 45 minute initial consultation or for any other enquiries, please get in touch with me by E-Mail, leaving your name, phone number and a short message and I will get back to you shortly.[email protected]

I offer my psychotherapy practice in-person and onlineMy in-person appointments are held at the following location:The Health Hut,
Wilderness Wood,
Hadlow Down,
East Sussex
TN22 4HJOpen in GoogleOpen in Google Maps

I practice here, at the Health Hut in Wilderness Wood
This is a place to feel our healing connection with natureWe can also meet together online