Vix Thompson MA. RDMP.

Integrative Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor

As an integrative, feminist psychotherapist, my practice is trauma informed and offers a safe and affirming space to explore your understanding of yourself through compassionate, respectful and embodied enquiry.

I have over 20 years experience of working at the intersection of arts and health as a dance artist and facilitator, moving and being with people of all ages, in health care environments. My back ground in dance and movement informs my practice and combines humanistic, psychodynamic and transpersonal psychotherapeutic approaches.

I offer online sessions and in person sessions in the Hastings / East Sussex area.

What I offer

  • I offer a gentle, empathic and embodied approach that works with not just the mind and language but with the body and awareness. You may be seeking a different approach following years of talking therapy, or you may have an intuitive sense that an embodied approach is what you need. I help clients to centre their own felt sense and to become familiar with using awareness to move towards their therapeutic goals. We begin wherever feels comfortable for you.

    I particularly work with female identifying people and LGBTQI+ living with trauma, depression, anxiety, ADHD, Autism, grief and loss.

    I offer in person sessions at The Wellington Centre in Hastings or on line and can design bespoke packages to accommodate your current life situations.

  • For Counsellors, Creative Arts Therapists and Psychotherapists and anyone who works with human relationships in their working practice.

    Having a safe, confidential space in which to reflect can transform your practice. I offer creative and embodied tools to help you to orientate yourself in the complexity of human relationships and organisational systems.

    My areas of expertise are in trauma, particularly with c/y/p in education settings, main stream and SEN and adult identifying women, migrants, L:GBTQI+.

    I have 12 years post qualifying clinical experience and a Diploma in supervision (UKCP approved) from the London Centre for Psychodrama. I receive regular supervision from a senior supervisor and my practice abides by the UKCP and ADMPUK code of ethics.

  • No classes or workshops on offer at this time. Please do make contact to be informed of what’s coming up.

  • "It would be no exaggeration to say that my therapy sessions with Vix were life-changing. Over several years a tragic and difficult personal situation had sapped my self-confidence and enjoyment of life. Vix helped me to set up strategies to protect myself and over weeks of discussion and encouragement, gave me back not only a sense of self-worth but also hope for the future. She is someone who possesses great empathy and I found myself able to talk about problems that up till that time, I’d kept private."

    1:1 therapy client

  • "I suffer from fibromyalgia and CPTSD. Vix has been helping me regain what has been taken away from me at birth; the right to rest and relax. Her soft kind and gentle approach is perfect for my healing journey and releasing trauma and pain from my body. After each session I felt safer, more relaxed and with less pain."

    1:1 therapy client

  • "Vix was calm and patient and excellent at guiding things back to body. She moved beautifully between us all giving everyone personal time”

    Body mapping participant

  • “During the second meditation, during my ‘grounding’, it felt like I had become my image and I experienced a feeling of calm and levitation. I definitely was not expecting to feel that”

    Body mapping participant

Current Workshops

Embodied Practice Group

Fridays 12 - 1.30pm at The Humble Hub, St Leonard’s on Sea.

This is a creative / practice space (not a class) run by and for people with an existing embodied practice (dance / movement / body work ). Click here for more info.

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