Meet Our Counsellors and Psychotherapists

Amrita Athwal

Amrita works with adults in an integrative way, drawing on various therapeutic approaches tailored to meet the needs of each client. She provides a safe space to help clients better understand themselves. She offers short term and long term therapy.

Amrita has experience of working with clients on issues such as trauma, addiction, depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, bereavement and stress.

Accredited,
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Bloomsbury

Language: English

Annie Curran-White

With a Masters degree in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy, Annie offers both short and long term, open-ended therapy to individuals. Her experience includes depression, stress and anxiety, bereavement, loss, personal development and trauma.

Annie has additional, specialist training working with survivors of rape, and adult and childhood sexual abuse.

Accredited,
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Soho

Language: English

Antonella Bonetti

Antonella is a psychodynamic therapist offering short- and long-term therapy to adults. She also sees couples facing issues within their relationship.

Since obtaining her Master’s degree in Psychodynamic Therapy & Counselling, Antonella has worked in different organisational settings (charities, NHS and university counselling services) helping people from diverse backgrounds. She has a particular interest and experience in the following fields: cultural differences and identity issues, life-changing events and difficult transitional periods, relationships, intimacy, loneliness and isolation, and women’s issues.

Antonella helps her clients explore and understand the root causes of their concerns drawing, where possible, from past experiences to help identify patterns of behaviour, and working closely with them to find the best approach and way forward to address their individual needs.

Antonella offers online and face-to-face therapy sessions in both English and Italian.

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Bloomsbury, Kensington

Language: English, Italian

Barbara Beyaz

Barbara brings a warm, non-judgmental, and accepting attitude to her work with clients. As an integrative Psychotherapist, she draws from a range of theoretical perspectives which allows her to tailor therapy to the needs of the client. Barbara thinks that healing and individual growth happen when difficulties in living are explored with empathy, and the client's unique experience is considered with curiosity.

The therapeutic relationship is at the centre of Barbara's practice, and she emphasises meaningful connection in her work. Barbara uses a relational lens to help clients make sense of how they relate to themselves, others, and the world. She also supports clients to understand how past experiences can impact current relationships. In therapy, Barbara works collaboratively with clients to consider experiences from a new perspective and reveal new possibilities of being.

Barbara's experience of living and working in different parts of the world gives her a deeper understanding of difference and allows her to connect with her clients' challenges in meaningful ways. Barbara draws from a wealth of professional experience working with a range of clients in various therapeutic settings, including the voluntary sector, private practice and the NHS. She offers long and short-term therapy and welcomes clients with a range of problems, including anxiety, depression, abuse, relationship issues, loss, self-esteem, family problems, trauma, and life changes.

Location: Fitzrovia

Language: English, German

Barbara Perini

Barbara is an accredited member of BACP, holding an MSc in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and adhering to the BACP ethical framework. Her approach is open-ended, offering both short-term and long-term therapy.

Barbara has also trained in Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT), a short-term (16 sessions), semi-structured individual therapy developed for mood disorders.

Barbara provides a non-judgemental and safe space in which clients feel free to speak about their struggles, challenges, difficult emotions and experiences. At the foundation of her approach is a focus on her clients’ emotional life and their relationships, past and present. She works collaboratively with her clients, by supporting and empowering them in developing strategies to cope with challenging situations and overwhelming emotions and feelings. Barbara offers therapy in both English and Italian.

As well as working with common mental health issues, such as anxiety, depression and relationship issues, Barbara has experience working with adults who experienced trauma and abuse in their childhood. She has also been working in different settings with adults who struggle with substance abuse and misuse, as well as adults who grew up with parents or caregivers with addiction problems.

Accredited,
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English, Italian

Ben Brackenbury

Ben believes that at times we all struggle with the challenges life has to offer and therapy provides a safe, confidential, non-judgemental space to explore this. Ben works with individuals to make sense of who they are and how they respond to the world today, and to explore new ways of being. Ben is also sensitive to how difficult it might be for a client to talk to a stranger about personal issues, so creating an atmosphere of trust within the room is very important to him.

Ben is an integrative therapist drawing on psychodynamic and person centred modalities, which means he uses different approaches to suit each client's needs best. During your sessions, together you'll explore what is happening in your life in the here and now and also at times looking at how childhood and past relationships can influence who we are in the present.

Ben has experience of working with a wide range of issues including low self-esteem, lack of confidence, loss, identity, depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts.

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English

Ben Marks

Ben is an experienced psychotherapist who has helped many people through difficult times in their lives. He works with clients with a wide range of personal issues around depression, anxiety, bereavement, trauma, abuse, loneliness, stresses within the workplace, low self esteem, relationship and sexual problems including performance anxiety, erectile dysfunction and struggles with intimacy.

Ben has also worked with many clients from the LGBTQ+ community with issues surrounding sexual identity, shame, body image, chemsex, toxic masculinity and homophobia.

Ben offers a warm, non judgemental space where his clients can freely explore and express how they are feeling. He helps his clients gain deeper understanding and meaning to their thoughts, emotions and behaviours. Working together, Ben and his clients can address any difficulties they are experiencing, find ways to move forward and implement positive life changes.

Ben works within an Integrative framework. This means he incorporates different psychological approaches according to what best suits the client and their needs. He works with individuals on a short or long term basis.

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English

Catherine Hammett

Catherine offers a safe, confidential space for clients bringing a wide range of issues to therapy.  These include anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship difficulties, anger and work-related stress.  Catherine also supports clients experiencing depression, bereavement and life transitions.  Among her specialist interests are post traumatic growth and working with adult children of alcoholics.

Catherine’s approach is integrative. She is trained in several Humanistic models and uses attachment theory to explore how early relationship dynamics shape the adults we become.

Catherine’s priority is to ensure you feel listened to and accepted so that you can begin to let go of any limiting beliefs.  From there, she focuses on helping you develop the self-awareness and clarity that, in turn, enable you to cope with challenges and embrace change.

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English

Ceri Hiles

Ceri works with adult clients wanting to explore a range of concerns including anxiety, depression, relationship and family problems, issues arising from physical, emotional or psychological abuse and confidence and self-esteem issues. He has particular experience of working with bereavement and loss.

Ceri’s training in psychodynamic and person-centred approaches to therapy has given him an understanding of each client’s capacity for personal growth and development, and how the special nature of the counselling relationship can help facilitate this process. He works both short and longer-term, depending on what each individual wants to achieve through therapy.

Accredited,
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Soho

Language: English

Cora Beattie

People come to therapy for many different reasons; whatever your reason, therapy is a unique experience. It can offer you an environment where you begin to make sense of your experiences, both past and present, and discover how you feel about them.

Cora likes to create a space that is both safe and supportive in which she can work collaboratively with her clients. Together, Cora and her clients explore what has brought them to therapy, talk about what experiences they might be going through and begin to make sense of how things are for them. Talking together allows space to consider different perspectives, and other choices that might be available.

There’s no agenda, no assumption or judgement on what each client wants to talk about. Sometimes the process is challenging, but as you begin to make sense of things, you can explore ways that will help you to move forward in your life.

Cora is an integrative therapist who draws on the approaches of psychodynamic and humanistic theories. This means we are able to explore patterns of behaviour that may have possible links to the past alongside what is happening in your life in the here and now.

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English

David Peña-Charlon

David believes in the ability of individuals to heal and better their lives, transforming difficulties, trauma, and anxiety into personal insight. He offers integrative psychosexual and relationship therapy in a safe, confidential and non-judgemental environment.

David sees individuals and couples with a wide range of issues that include concerns around sex and intimacy, communication and relationship difficulties, recovery from childhood trauma, sexual abuse, life transitions and searching for meaning, sexual orientation, gender difficulties, coming to terms with disability and fertility-related issues.

He uses different approaches from a variety of therapeutic models to suit your needs so that you are able to walk your own path towards self-knowledge, understand your current emotions and behaviours and gain insights about the influence of past experiences, family and society.

David offers therapy in English and Spanish and works in a diversity-affirmative way with people from different backgrounds, sexual orientations and gender identities.

Member, College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English, Spanish

Dwayne Jackson

Jackson sees individuals with a range of personal, emotional and behavioural issues including relationship and intimacy issues, problems resulting form childhood trauma, issues arising from physical, emotional or sexual abuse, sex and sexuality issues, fear and phobias, transgender and gender identity issues, issues around cancer and cancer treatment, chronic illness, infertility issues and concerns around the purpose and meaning of life. Jackson is director of One Therapy London having founded the therapy service in 2006.

Senior Consultant Therapist

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Read articles by Dwayne Jackson
A Guide to Depression and Low Mood
Does Talking Help?
Important Figures in Psychotherapy
Facing Sexual Issues

Location: Bloomsbury

Language: English

Evan Bates

Evan is a psychodynamic therapist, offering both long and short term therapy. He creates a non-judgemental and reflective space to help clients explore their difficulties and concerns. Working together to understand the connections between past and current relationships, Evan supports clients in developing a deeper awareness of their recurring emotional patterns and further insight into their internal world.  Through insight and empathy, therapy helps equip clients to face the emotional challenges in their life.

Evan has experience working with a range of issues including anxiety, depression, relationship issues, shame, low self-esteem, loss and bereavement, sexuality, and identity. He also has a background in the Higher Education sector both in student counselling, and in Organisational Development.

As well as having an MSc in psychodynamic therapy Evan has a degree in philosophy. This allows him to take an existential perspective when working with clients to understand the meaning in their lives – helping to make sense of the emotional challenges and issues of identity experienced in today’s world.

British Association for counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Soho, Fitzrovia

Language: English

Fabio Valenti

Fabio helps people with a range of different issues, including depression, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma, loneliness, bereavement, identity issues, or just a desire to know themselves better. He specialises in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy which explores personal history, childhood, attachment patterns, and how these relate to current problems. Fabio's work is guided by empathy, helping to bring to light unconscious thoughts and feelings.  In addition to his private practice Fabio also works as a Psychodynamic Therapist for a secondary care outpatient service within the NHS.

Psychodynamic therapy uses a model of the unconscious mind, and is more like a journey than a prescriptive tool. Fabio works with his clients, helping them to derive meaning and make sense of both past and present, enabling them to build the tools they need to overcome whatever struggle they are facing.

This form of therapy and counselling is long term and works best with people who are ready to make a commitment to themselves. Many people who have tried CBT and have found that it hasn't worked for them, or wish to deepen their self-insight after having gained some understanding through CBT, often do well in psychodynamic therapy.

As a psychodynamic therapist, Fabio is required to have his own ongoing therapy. He hopes this helps people feel reassured that he understand how it can feel to be sitting in the other chair. Whatever the problem, clients are welcome to contact Fabio to arrange an initial chat where he can better help answer any questions they might have.

Accredited, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Fitzrovia

Language: English

Gabriella Flatt

Gabriella is an Integrative counsellor and psychotherapist. Her approach is based on forming a strong and supportive connection with her clients to facilitate change. Gabriella works creatively to ensure that each session is responsive and acknowledges each client’s needs. She works using a collaborative style and explores different perspectives and ideas to match every individual.

Gabriella works with clients presenting a range of issues which include relationship issues, gender identity and trans issues, anxiety, bereavement, sexual orientation, domestic abuse, trauma and addiction. She provides both short and long term therapy.

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Fitzrovia

Language: English

Genny Hawken

Genny is an integrative psychotherapist with a background of many years working with individuals for the NHS as a speech and language therapist.  She has an MA in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy and  works with adults presenting with a wide range of difficulties concerning their mental wellbeing.

She draws from the psychodynamic and humanistic approaches to psychotherapy and consider the therapeutic relationship to be central to the process.   She places the unique experience of the individual at the centre of the therapeutic process.  Together, she and her client  embark on a journey to explore and understand what may be causing the present difficulty and any associated patterns or behaviours that may contribute to the unhappiness and work out together what might facilitate change. 

“It’s never to late to become the person you might have been” George Elliot.

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Soho

Language: English

Geraldine Lothian

Geraldine is a psychodynamic psychotherapist who works with individuals who want to explore current or past difficulties. Geraldine has experience of working with clients who have issues with depression, anxiety, identity and cultural issues. In therapy, there are opportunities to discuss all areas of life including your past, your family and your romantic relationships as well as low self esteem, addiction, sex and attachment issues.
Geraldine has experience working with clients on both a long term and short term basis.

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Location: Fitzrovia

Language: English

Giselle van Rheede

Giselle is an experienced Psychodynamic Counsellor who has worked with a diverse range of people from a multitude of backgrounds, cultures and faiths. Her focus in therapy is to help you to open avenues for growth and to facilitate change through exploring the way you relate to your sense of self, your family, your community and wider society.

Giselle believes that the same blocks that have prevented you from developing good relationships and finding happiness, will emerge in the therapeutic relationship. She will be with you as you navigate the vast reservoir of feelings and complex emotions that may be outside of your conscious awareness but have been actively informing your relational patterns, sense of self and your way of life.

Giselle welcomes clients with a wide variety of issues including anxiety, trauma, bereavement, depression, work related stress, childhood sexual abuse and relationship difficulties.

British Psychotherapy Council
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English

Isabella Watson

Isabella is a psychodynamic psychotherapist.

In weekly sessions, she listens to whatever her clients are feeling and thinking, and explores this with her clients. Isabella’s practice is based on the fact that no human being is fully aware of all their patterns of behaviour, ways of thinking or emotional responses.

Through a trusting therapeutic relationship, Isabella’s clients gain insight into these patterns and a greater understanding of who they are, helping them to bring about the changes they want to see in their lives. In this way, Isabella's clients address issues including distressing psychological or emotional states, difficult life events and the sense that something is not right in their lives.

Isabella provides a calm and thoughtful space to allow change to begin.

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus, Kensington

Language: English

Janis Dellner

Janis offers an empathic, non-judgemental and safe environment where you can explore the issues that are currently troubling you.  Janis works collaboratively to explore and challenge thoughts, feelings and behaviours that are no longer serving towards her clients’ well-being, interests and relationships with self and others.  She believes it is through the development of this trusting therapeutic relationship that clients are able to develop new insights, growth and healing.

Janis draws on several approaches including person-centred, transactional analysis and attachment theory.  This allows her to work flexibly to tailor her approach to fit individual needs of her clients.  She offers short and longer term therapy helping clients with a wide range of issues.  These include stress, anxiety, depression, bereavement, loss and life changes.  She also has experience working with relationship difficulties, addictions, low self-esteem and trauma.

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English

Jennifyr Yap

Jennifyr is a qualified practitioner in integrative psychosexual and relationship therapy and sees adult individuals and couples (including family relationships i.e. mother and daughter).

Jennifyr’s training is integrative which means she will draw on different models of psychotherapy and ways of working with human behaviour.  Jennifyr explores the dynamics of mind, body, brain and emotions, individually and in depth as required, including trauma, within the context of your relationship or sexuality.

Foremost, Jennifyr respects her client's autonomy to facilitate the most effective therapy for individual clients and couples, with the focus on sexual health and wellbeing in all aspects rather than a focus on sexual dysfunction and/or sexual shame.

Jennifyr has experience of seeing clients from all backgrounds and treating a variety of presenting issues within the psychosexual remit. Couples work includes but is not restricted to: affairs and infidelities and post affair recovery; Cultural differences and expectations; Sexual differences; Communication and Intimacy difficulties.

College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English

Jolita Gaskin

Jolita is a BACP accredited Psychodynamic counsellor and psychotherapist. She is committed to providing a confidential and relaxed space, within which clients can feel safe to express their difficulties, worries and concerns. Together with the client, she aims to create a stimulating and reflective environment that recognises clients’ personal experiences and develops new perspectives to help facilitate any changes the client wishes to make.

As a psychodynamic therapist, Jolita is particularly curious about relationships. This interest spans right from our very earliest experiences, to the connections we build with family, friends and colleagues and our relationships with society and our environment. She likes to explore how childhood has impacted on adult life and focus on any patterns that may continue to be repeated that are not helpful. She is interested in how growing in a violent/abusive/neglectful environment shapes and influence the future, and how this trauma can carry on through generations.

Jolita has experience helping diverse clients at all stages of life. She provides both short and long-term psychodynamic therapy for adults with a wide range of issues like anxiety, depression, work-related issues, low self-esteem, sexual abuse, abortion, postnatal depression, cultural change, children of narcissistic parents and institutional trauma.

Jolita offers therapy in English and Lithuanian. She is an active member of Lithuanian community in the UK. She is committed to spreading mental health awareness in the community through media and workshops.

Accredited,
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English, Lithuanian

Kate Crawford

Kate qualified as an integrative psychotherapist and couples therapist over ten years ago. She then completed further training as a psychosexual therapist and now enjoys seeing a mixture of individuals and couples with both sexual and non-sexual issues. Her areas of expertise include relationship issues, gender dysphoria, sexual problems, family issues and abuse. Warm and approachable, Kate is far from the stereotype of the silent therapist. She tends to work long-term with her clients, enabling deep and lasting change.

Senior Consultant Therapist

Head of Therapy Services

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Read articles by Kate Crawford
A Guide to Couples Therapy
How Does Therapy Help?
What to Expect in Counselling

Location: Bloomsbury

Language: English

Kim Goodwin-Wheatle

Kim offers specialist relationship and psychosexual therapy for couples and individuals experiencing intimacy and sexual difficulties both physical and emotional in nature. Sexual difficulties are often uncomfortable to talk about and can have far reaching impact on other areas of life.

Kim works with communication, infidelity, fertility/birth trauma, sexual trauma, erectile difficulties, vaginal pain, sexual identity, libido issues and issues relating to ageing and disability. Her experience has been gained by working both short term with the NHS and long term in a variety of clinical settings.

Kim’s integrative approach to counselling utilises theory and tools from various types of therapy enabling her to provide a tailored approach best suited to the individual or couple.

College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists

Location: Fitzrovia

Language: English

Kira Jolliffe

The way Kira works with her clients is to integrate eclectic but effective approaches: 1) Humanistic, which means that your experience and growth are at the centre of our work. 2) Psychodynamic and Trauma, which each involve exploring how your past experiences have a bearing on your present emotional life.  3) Helping you discover practical and lateral solutions to any problematic and overwhelming thoughts or behaviours you have.

For twelve years, Kira has been working with a wide range of people experiencing issues such as anxiety, abuse, loss, confusion about their own thoughts, feelings and behaviours; identity issues, ADD/ADHD, creative block, relationship problems, oppression, child or adult sexual violation; mood difficulties, addictions, the impacts of both developmental and specific traumas; low self-esteem, guilt and shame; dissociation, sexual issues, personal development and growth; and the various issues arising from our shared context such as the global pandemic and climate crisis.

Senior Consultant Therapist

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Bloomsbury, Kensington

Language: English

Marta Pisarri

Marta is a psychologist and an integrative psychotherapist: she has been working in the field of mental health for over 12 years in both private and public sectors. She provides psychotherapeutic support to individuals and families.

Marta provides individual therapy for those who struggle to manage life's challenges, want to improve their relationships, discard thoughts and behaviours that no longer work for them, face a difficult period and want to find purpose in life. She provides her clients with a safe and creative space in which they can explore their thoughts, feelings and behaviour, and together, Mart and her clients can think about a useful way forward.

In her approach, Marta integrates psychodynamic therapy, attachment theory, systemic approach as well as CBT and gestalt techniques. Integrative therapy is a progressive form of psychotherapy that combines different therapeutic tools and approaches to fit the needs of the individual client. By combining elements drawn from different schools of psychological theory and research, integrative psychotherapy becomes a more flexible and inclusive approach to treatment than more traditional, singular forms of psychotherapy.

Marta believes that therapy is a personal journey that should focus on the individual needs and personality; therapy is a non-judgemental process based on trust and partnership from both parties, the client and the therapist. The focus of her approach is to understand the person's emotional sufferance and difficulties in order to promote inner wellbeing and growth. Marta uses a holistic approach where she looks at past and present experiences to gather a sense of each client and find the best way to help them. The main aim of Marta's job is to help individuals who are experiencing emotional and psychological distress and difficulties to understand their problems and make appropriate changes to their lives.

Marta's areas of expertise are:

• personality disorders
• relationships
• low self-esteem
• depression and anxiety
• substance misuse
• traumatic experiences and PTSD
• parent/infant psychotherapy
• antenatal and postnatal support
• Registered, United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Location: Soho

Language: English, Italian

Marta Szapiel

Marta is a psychodynamic counsellor and psychotherapist who trained at Tavistock Relationships, a centre of excellence for psychodynamic relationship therapy. She specialises in working with couples and individuals experiencing relationship and emotional difficulties. Marta offers a safe, non-judgemental, reflective space and welcomes people of all backgrounds. She helps her patients develop deeper understanding of how their early experiences may be affecting their current life and interactions with others. Through the process of exploration, Marta helps her patients to develop new insights and make sense of their difficulties. This, in turn, fosters lasting psychological change and supports patients in creating a more fulfilling life.

Marta sees individuals and couples with a wide range of psychological problems including depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, loss, bereavement, traumatic life events, intimacy issues, parenting challenges, issues around building satisfying relationships and feeling stuck with unhelpful patterns of behaviour.

Accredited,
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English, Polish

Mita Hiremath

Mita is a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist with over 20 years of experience. She worked in the voluntary sector, the NHS and also in private practice. She holds an MSc in Psychotherapy. Mita draws on several different approaches to enable her to work sensitively and creatively with her clients. She bases her approach depending on each person’s needs. These approaches include transactional analysis, psychodynamic theory and EMDR.

Mita has a wealth of experience working with a range of issues including, stress, anxiety, depression, trauma including PTSD,  loss, bereavement, relationship difficulties, anger problems, low-confidence and low self-esteem, sexuality issues and childhood emotional, physical and sexual abuse.

Mita sees individuals and couples for short and longer–term counselling.

Senior Consultant Therapist

Accredited,
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

EMDR Association of UK and Ireland 

Location: Bloomsbury

Language: English

Philip Rose

As an existential therapist, Philip works in partnership with his clients to explore their lives and the challenges which affect their wellbeing. Grounded in an attitude of curiosity and wonder, Philip’s approach to therapy is collaborative and non-judgemental. Creating professional client relationships built on trust and honesty, he nurtures their personal growth, enabling them to discover their own solutions to move forward with greater clarity.

Philip is BACP registered and has an MA in Psychotherapy and Counselling. He has worked with clients in diverse settings, ranging from sexual health, community mental health and bereavement services, and as a therapist in private practice. Offering both time-focused and long-term therapy, Philip draws on his broad experience to support clients as they face the concerns which affect their daily lives.

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy

Location: Kensington

Language: English

Patricia Connolly

Patricia works within a psychodynamic approach. This focuses on early life experience and  relationships to help you understand how they shape who you are in the present. When you begin to more fully explore your emotions and attitudes you can find a deeper self–knowledge, which can also transform the way you relate to others.

Psychotherapy offers a creative and collaborative space in which you can start to challenge long-term patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.

Our first consultation is an opportunity:

- for you to discuss what you are looking for

- for me to explain how I work

- for us to decide what the next step is

Patricia has worked with clients to explore diverse issues, including: social anxiety, sexuality, identity and relationships, disordered eating, and problems in making emotional connections. She has a masters degree in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and is an Accredited member of the BACP. She is also an experienced educator and trainer. Before becoming a therapist, Patricia was a film-maker and freelance journalist.

Accredited,
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Soho

Language: English

Sara Barry

As a person-centred and attachment-based therapist, Sara works in a way which respects each client’s individual needs and perspectives. This therapeutic approach can help develop an understanding of how our present day struggles may be influenced by past relationships or difficult experiences.

Sara offers a relationship which is warm and collaborative, with an emphasis on creating a safe space for her clients to explore and challenge unhelpful beliefs, problematic patterns of behaviour and current relationship issues.

Sara has 20 years experience working with a diverse range of clients with issues including anxiety, stress, depression, bereavement, loneliness, trauma, anger, self esteem, life transition and relationship difficulties.

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Bloomsbury

Language: English

Shelley Klein

Shelley is a psychodynamically-trained therapist and counsellor working with adult patients from a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds. She believes psychotherapy is a useful means of talking about aspects of your life that you are finding painful, upsetting or difficult to cope with, in a non-judgmental, confidential and trusted setting.

Shelley offers both long and short-term therapy and has a particular knowledge of working with people who are experiencing depression, anxiety, a bereavement, sexual and/or physical abuse, eating disorders or unexpected changes in life circumstances. She believes that psychotherapy can help anyone searching for meaning and understanding in life and that by working through things together with her clients, they can develop a better sense of who they are and a clearer understanding of how past experiences often continue to have an impact on us in the present.

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Soho

Language: English

Silvia Checa Casals

Silvia (she/her) is a qualified integrative therapist. She combines two different types of psychotherapy (person-centred and psychodynamic) to help her understand her clients’ feelings, past experiences, difficulties, needs and aspirations.

She has experience working with grief, loss and bereavement, self-esteem, relationships, abuse (past and present), anxiety and depression, sexuality and gender identities, and addictions.

Silvia’s aim is to provide a warm and non-judgemental space that feels safe for her clients; meeting them wherever they are in their journeys, supporting and encouraging them to develop confidence in their own ability to help themselves. She has a strong commitment to diversity and is a queer friendly, trauma informed practitioner. Silvia is also a trauma informed therapist.

Location: Soho

Language: English, Spanish, Catalan, French

Simone Actilio

As a UK qualified psychodynamic counsellor, Simone has been working in the field of psychotherapy, psychology and mental health for the past 15 years, with experience in both public and private sectors.

Simone is dedicated to offering a safe, supportive and confidential space in which his clients concerns can be shared, and together they explore the client's experiences - both past and present - in order to gain a greater understanding of the issues that are troubling them.  Simone's primary therapeutic model is psychodynamic and his way of working is informed by psychoanalytic concepts, group dynamics as well as intergenerational trauma. The psychodynamic approach to psychotherapy focuses on both the conscious and the unconscious motivations behind the individual’s thoughts, patterns of behaviors and feelings, in an attempt to gain a deeper understanding of the person as a whole.

Simone is Italian and he offers both short term and long-term open-ended psychotherapy for adults of all backgrounds, in English or Italian.

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy

Location: Soho

Language: English, Italian

Stamatia Lorentzou

Stamatia draws on a broad range of theories of psychotherapy. She works collaboratively with her clients to understand the causes of their concern and find ways to move forward.

Stamatia offers both short-term and longer-term therapy. She has worked in various organisational settings with individuals seeking to address relationship issues, low self esteem, separation, bereavement, depression, anxiety and health. She offers therapy in English and Greek.

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Bloomsbury

Language: English, Greek

Tatjana Strbac

Tatjana uses an integrative approach to support individuals and couples through personal, professional and relationship difficulties, in a collaborative and relaxed environment in which they can safely explore their past and present experiences. Tatjana aims to understand your needs and explore possible solutions by identifying the thinking, behaviour and emotional patterns that may hold you back, while also drawing on your strengths and encouraging your personal growth.

Tatjana has experience working with a wide range of issues, such as mood disorders, loss of meaning and direction in life, self-esteem and communication issues, sex and intimacy, gender identity, career change, fertility, relationships and family dynamics. In her work with couples, Tatjana focuses on how they communicate and what may block the path towards better mutual understanding and deeper intimacy.

Tatjana has a special interest in health and psycho-somatic conditions, including chronic fatigue and insomnia; also, in gender dysphoria and transitioning, life developmental phases, mid-life crisis and aging. Tatjana particularly draws from the Psychosynthesis model, which is effective in addressing difficult life transitions that may result in an identity, existential, spiritual or health crisis, viewing them as a call for personal action and a potential for growth and transformation. To this end, Tatjana is trained to offer guided breathing, visualisation, guided imagery and drawing, as a way of accessing the client’s own capacity to know and heal themselves.

Tatjana has worked in diverse professional settings including university counseling service; at the Metropolitan police - as Independent Domestic Violence Advisor; and in a rehabilitation centre for substance misuse. She is a member of BACP.

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English, Croatian/Serbian

Tom Deitch

Tom is a psychodynamic therapist with a compassionate, empathic and understanding approach to his clients. He offers a safe and confidential space where clients will be listened to without judgement.

Tom has experience in helping people address a range of personal difficulties including depression, anxiety, bereavement, relationship troubles, unresolved childhood trauma, low self-esteem, addiction and many other problems. He works with individuals in both short-term and long-term, open-ended therapy.

Tom believes that establishing a relationship based on mutual trust and respect can enable him to work together with his clients to explore the origins of what troubles them and consider new ways of thinking and feeling about the obstacles they face.

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus, Brighton

Language: English

Tom Leonard

Tom works with both couples and individuals.  His approach integrates different styles of therapy to help find the best way to assist you.  Therapy is often a self-exploration, with the therapist supporting you in seeking to reach a better understanding of and connection to your needs, feelings and behaviour and the ways in which they affect your relationships and experience of the world.

Increased understanding of and connection to protected or hidden parts of yourself can often be a seed from which change develops. Tom seeks to support you in making changes that feel right for you, often to unhelpful patterns in feelings, behaviour and relationships.

He works with a range emotional and behavioural issues including difficulties in communication and being understood; relationship, sex and intimacy issues; career and work-related issues and finding purpose and meaning in life.

Tom has a Masters in Relationship Therapy and works on both a short or longer term basis.

Accredited, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus, Fitzrovia

Language: English

Toulla Nicolaides

Toulla is an integrative relational therapist using a combination of therapeutic approaches to help her clients. She provides a safe and supportive environment for individuals to explore their difficulties in life, relationships and childhood and to share and resolve confusing and overwhelming feelings.

Toulla believes that, though challenging, therapy can help clients navigate their life struggles and bring unconscious patterns of behaviour and relational difficulties to light, enabling more self-awareness and connection with the world around them and in relationships. She believes that with reflection and expression clients can get to know themselves better, giving them a stronger sense of meaning, purpose, belonging and fulfilment.

Toulla has worked in different psychotherapy environments, working with clients who have suffered acute loss, grief, loneliness, fear, shame, anger, suicidal thoughts and other traumas and emotional difficulties. She has much experience in working with people from a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds.

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Fitzrovia

Language: English, Greek

Yussef Ferguson

Yussef is a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist who offers both long and short term personal therapy to individuals. He has experience of working with a diverse range of clients and can provide a warm, confidential space to explore and gain insight into any past or present personal difficulties and experiences.

Yussef works with issues such as anxiety, depression, loss, trauma, relationship difficulties and sexual and domestic abuse as well as low self esteem and cultural, sexuality and identity issues.

Yussef has worked within a number of organisational settings and has a background of delivering psychodynamic therapy within the NHS, working with adults with complex mental health issues and has had previous experiences working with children and families.

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English