Brunna Mendes

LOCATION: Wilbury Road and online
AVAILABILITY: Friday afternoons
PRICE: £60 per session
SPECIALISMS:
Young Adults
Anxiety/ Mood swings
Autism Spectrum (ASD) / Attention Deficit (ADHD)
Racial issues
Immigrant/cultural issues
Life change/ transition
Relationships
Behaviour Patterns
Trauma

Training

Brunna holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Psychotherapeutic Counselling which was completed with Distinction at the University of Brighton. She is currently taking her MSc in Psychotherapy. Brunna has also completed a BA (Hons) in Childhood Studies which enabled her to gain a deep understanding neurodiversity and different strategies to support neurodiverse people and families. Brunna is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

Experience

Brunna considers all types of feelings, thoughts, behaviours, relationships, and life experiences as valuable information to be explored within therapy. Such exploration can promote the recognition of ruptures to the sense of self and support the client’s awareness. An understanding of unconscious impulses and how these might affect behaviour, feelings, and relationships may then become important tools to promote the emotional health of clients, while deeply respecting their beliefs, desires, and autonomy.

Working with young adults

Brunna has professional experience working with young adults within a University setting. Early adulthood can bring lots of changes, pressure, and expectations. Sometimes undesired emotions, patterns of behaviour and anxiety might start to become habitual, making life difficult in many aspects. Brunna provides a non-judgmental environment and the safety necessary for young adults to explore these aspects, and to support their emotional development and growth. She has experience of working with many young adults from different genders and backgrounds.

Anxiety and Mood swings

Anxiety can present itself in numerous physical ways, such as wanting to use the toilet, sleeplessness, muscle tension, sweating hands, and many other uncomfortable feelings. These can be reactions to daily stress but can also become extremely difficult if experienced frequently.

Brunna provides a non-judgmental, compassionate, confidential, and nurturing environment to enable clients to truly explore and recognise the emotional wounds that might be contributing to their anxiety, and to explore if there could be any unconscious reasons for certain particular situations in life that would lead to anxiety and/or low mood.

ASD (Austism Spectrum Disorder) and ADHD (Attention Defecit Hyperactivity Disorder)

Brunna has academic, professional, and personal experience working with people with ASD and ADHD. She believes each individual is unique.

Brunna respects each client’s unique experience within their neurodiversity and offers a compassionate therapeutic space, whether this involves seeking a formal diagnosis or not. Brunna is committed to arranging the counselling space in a way that is most helpful to each client’s wishes and sensory needs, with special attention paid to any support the client might need to aid their concentration (for example, weighted blankets).

Brunna also has experience and interest in work with parents/carers, siblings, and those in close relationship with a neurodiverse person.

Other information

Brunna can also work with clients who speak Portuguese. She offers concessions to NHS workers, people on low income, people l who are prejudiced due to racial issues and students.