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Welcome to ADART, your local psychotherapist in Hove in Brighton. With over 20 years of experience helping clients navigate through unsettling behaviours, thoughts, and feelings, I am dedicated to providing a safe and confidential space for you to explore and heal.
Using a psychotherapeutic approach tailored to your unique needs, I offer support and guidance to help you enhance your psychological functions and personal growth. Together, we can work towards understanding your inner self and overcoming challenges.
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Bradley Riddell MBACP
At ADART, I pride myself on providing personalised and effective psychotherapy services to help you overcome anxiety, depression, addiction & relationship issues and restore a healthy balance based on a heightened awareness & understanding of that which you can change, that which you cannot, & the wisdom that comes from knowing the difference.
It is in knowing the difference, really knowing the difference, that can bring about profound qualitative change to ones life.
Do get in touch for a free 15 minute no obligation chat in which you can ask me any questions you may have & let's schedule your first appointment & together we can work towards getting you to where you want to be, even if that place seems very unclear, vague and/or out of sight in this present moment as you are reading this.
In time we can bring it into sight & clear the path towards it, allowing you to move towards the state you desire in realistic, achievable & measurable increments. This is the therapeutic journey, begin yours today...
When I came to see Bradley I was beset with anxiety about my IBS. It limited my confidence to go anywhere or do anything out of the ordinary. He worked with me enabling me to see & understand how it had taken hold & developed into what seemed to be a core part of my identity, & I was then able to quietly but confidently challenge the assumptions I had taken for core truths & uncertainties. I now do more than I had imagined possible & feel confident in myself wherever I go, thank you Bradley I am so glad I made that initial call...
I had accumulated debts I'd pay off only to be buried under another slew. I was a classic gambler putting off til tomorrow what I wouldn't face today. A journey through my life uncovered the touchstone memories that had cemented into my unconscious, beliefs that were deeply rooted & entrenched emotional responses to those deeply buried experiences. I feel like the weight of the universe has been lifted from my shoulders. I no longer carry these burdensome beliefs with me wherever I go & feel lighter & freer than ever before or have ever believed possible, so thank you, so grateful I reached out & showed up...
I drank to forget, now I forget to remember, because I choose to. A simple, & in hindsight obvious realisation set me free from the tyranny of my internal critics of which there were too many to handle.
Once Bradley got me to see that these voices were mine, I was able to converse with them in a very different way. Instead of trying to silence them I listened to what they were trying to protect me from. It turns out they were much younger 'parts' of me & once I invited them to join me at the age & stage I was actually at, the compulsive need to gamble dissipated. I'm debt free & looking forward to each day in a way I'd never imagined possible. there's always another way...
My depression dragged me down to hideous depths that only drink & drugs could obliterate. When I realised this was something known as 'negative reinforcement' I was able to turn towards more positive focussed strategies & see the compulsive behaviour as a consequence of catastrophising thoughts & beliefs.
Emotion trumps logic every time I remember Bradley telling me on countless occasions. I had no idea what he meant by, at first, but I do now, & it set me free from the dark despair.
Bradley's understanding, non-judgmentalism & empathy shone through from session one. I finally felt truly listened to & understood & as a result I was able to work through my misgivings & fears letting go of those that no longer served me & taking up approaches that I had forgotten I once practiced along with beliefs I used to hold but had lost a hold on over the years. I got back in touch with my true self & let go of the untruths...
Thank you for rescuing me from my inner demons that were all along just that MINE!!! And I began to reorganise them into true representations of my true values & beliefs. My anxiety diminished into manageable concerns with realisable solutions & my drinking & recreational drug use became unnecessary. I still enjoy the occasional drink but I don't feel compelled to use it to alter my mindset. I am comfortable with who I am & how I am, now. I don't need to aim for the stars, I am good enough as I am with my feet firmly on the ground!
My trauma drove me to drink & drugs & other self harming behaviours. Bradley helped me to see what I was actually doing as opposed to what I imagined or hoped I was doing. It was this emotional reconciliation that lifted the scales from my eyes, so to speak. I now understand the desire for perfection to be built on a foundation of traumatic events. Once I reconciled myself to their place in my past I was able to let them go back there, to my past & focus on my present with the past & the future back where they belong, behind & ahead of me with my present healthily & helpfully informed by both & suddenly my life has balance & meaning & a robustness I never thought possible...
Thank you Bradley, you helped me bring order to my chaos, I couldn't have done it without you.
I thought therapy was for losers, until it turned me into a winner.
God bless you & thank you from the bottom of my now overflowing heart...