University Counselling Services

University Counselling Services - providing a free and confidential service for all students.

The UCS team includes seven permanent therapists, two administrative staff and an additional 25 post-qualified and trainee counsellors.  Each year, over 900 students are seen for counselling, either individually, in therapy groups, or in workshops offering strategies for managing mood.  Counselling at UCS

New this Term: Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy

Procrastination  and Insomnia workshops 

UCS Offers:

  • Individual psychodynamic therapy
  • Cognitive behavioural therapy
  • Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Systemic therapy for student couples.
  • Eating Disorders Group
  • Drug and Alcohol Counselling programme
  • A one-off debrief consultation for staff.
  • Manage your Mood Workshops 2013.  See Manage Your Mood
  • Procrastination Workshop.  See Procrastination
  • Insomnia Workshop.  See Insomnia
  • UCS is next door to the Health Centre at the residential end of the campus, opposite East Slope and can be found through the archway between the GP surgery and the Chemist. See Map

Contact Us

Opening Hours

Monday - Friday 9.00 - 13.00 and 14.00 - 17.00
Tuesday & Wednesday 9.00 - 13.00 and 14.00 - 21.00 (17.00 - 21.00 term time only)
Telephone 01273 678156 during office hours
or leave a message on our confidential 24-hour answer phone
counsellingreception@sussex.ac.uk
www.sussex.ac.uk/counselling
University Counselling Services,
Health Centre Building,
University of Sussex,
Falmer, Brighton. 
BN1 9RW

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