Meet Our Counsellors and Psychotherapists

Ameet Magan

Ameet is from London and holds an MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy. He has more than a decade’s experience of working in a one-to-one capacity with clients. He has also trained in groupwork and has worked since 2016 as a group psychotherapist and clinical practitioner with the NHS in East London.

Ameet is a warm, grounded and reflective person. He works with compassion and integrity, creating a non-judgemental, safe space for his clients to bring and explore their inner world; their anxieties, their feelings and their hopes. His person-centred, humanistic approach allows his clients to feel understood and supports them in shifting their own perspective and developing a more integrated and robust sense of self. Ameet works collaboratively with his clients, working at their pace, supporting them through therapy and allowing them to explore and find the potential for positive change and growth.

Ameet has a wide range of experience working with depression, anxiety and relationship problems. He also has extensive knowledge of working with emotional difficulties and dysfunction, trauma, shame, abuse, developmental neglect, abandonment issues, loss, illness and bereavement. Ameet has particular interest and experience around the complexities and discourses of identity; including race, gender, sexuality and disability. He understands that today's world is an often lonely, disorienting and dehumanising place and he supports his clients to gather their thoughts, find their voice, experience themselves anew and make change.

Registered Member
United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Associate Member
The Institute of Group Analysis

Location: Kensington

Language: English

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 Member
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 Member
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.

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Bloomsbury, Kensington

Language: English, Italian

Ava Kinsey

Ava is a qualified psychodynamic psychotherapist and counsellor. She works with the NHS both as an adult psychotherapist at a complex trauma unit, and as a perinatal psychotherapist working with mothers and their infants and toddlers. Before that, she worked as a psychotherapist in secondary care at the NHS, treating clients who experienced early relational/sexual trauma or were diagnosed with PTSD, complex PTSD, or personality disorders.

Ava views therapy as a safe, non-judgmental space in which clients can explore their sense of self, their relationship with others and all the painful aspects of life that might be difficult to put into words. It is important to Ava to co-create a confidential relationship with her clients in a non-directive way, where her clients don’t need to censor themselves and can say whatever comes to mind. Therapy then can become a kind of refuge: anything that is happening in the client’s life can feel safer with someone accompanying them through the process.

Being psychodynamic means that Ava explores with clients the interplay between what they are aware of, and what parts of themselves they are not aware of, how early coping strategies that have helped clients survive in the past might be impacting their current lives and how relationships in the present are often influenced by past relationships. Although trained in the psychodynamic approach to therapy, Ava's practice is informed by many theoretical approaches: attachment theory, developmental neuroscience, somatic experiencing, and humanistic psychology.

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy

Location: Bloomsbury

Language: English

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 Member
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.

Registered Member
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.

Born in London and having worked in Soho for many years, Ben is familiar with the opportunities and challenges that can come with living and working in the capital.

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.

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Over the past two years, 91% of Ben’s clients have booked further appointments with Ben, after their first meeting with him.

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 and addicts.

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. Underpinning all Catherine’s work, be it short or longer term, is the collaborative and compassionate connection she creates with her clients. Research shows overwhelmingly that a healthy, positive relationship with your therapist is what makes the lasting difference in successful counselling.

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

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Catherine builds strong professional relationships with her clients. Most of Catherine's clients continue with her for many months, though she also welcomes those seeking shorter-term therapy.

Location: Oxford Circus

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.

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

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.

Registered Member
British Association for counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Soho, 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.

Registered Member
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.

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Kensington

Language: English

Geraldine Lothian

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Geraldine has experience working with clients on both a long term and short term basis.

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.

Registered Member
British Psychotherapy Council
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus, Fitzrovia

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.

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English

Jackson

Senior Consultant Therapist

Jackson has lived in the USA, Hong Kong and London. He studied Psychology in America and integrative psychotherapy in the UK.

Jackson has been described as 'straightforward.' He prefers to get to the bottom of any situation and takes a big picture approach to life and life's problems. He believes in facing reality over avoidance or delusion, no matter how difficult a reality might be. Rational thinking, honesty and empathy are central to how he works with his clients. Jackson is open to discussing any life experience or personal behaviour a client might put forward. There should be no shame or judgement in discussing life experiences.

Jackson sees individuals with emotional and behavioural issues which might include relationship problems, problems resulting from childhood trauma, issues around physical, emotional or sexual abuse, issues relating to crime and criminal behaviour, sexuality issues, gender dysphoria, cancer and cancer treatment, pregnancy and infertility issues, identity expression, issues around death and dying and questions around the purpose and meaning of life.

Jackson has considerable experience working with clients who require additional levels of discretion, due to their public or professional profiles.

He is director of One Therapy London having founded the counselling service in 2006. Jackson opened One Therapy Brighton in 2012. He trained therapists in London, Manchester and Glasgow for several years.

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Most clients have continued with Jackson for two years or more, though he has occasionally seen clients on a shorter-term basis. 

Read articles by Jackson
A Guide to Depression and Low Mood
Does Talking Help?
Facing Sexual Issues

Location: Bloomsbury

Language: English

Janis Dellner

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

Janis draws on several types of therapy including person-centred counselling, transactional analysis and attachment theory.  This allows her to work flexibly and tailor her approach to fit the 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 and attachment issues, low self-esteem, trauma and addiction.

Janis works with substance-based addictions as well as other addictions such as co-dependency, gambling and workaholism.  Whatever the form of addiction, Janis can help you to explore and increase your awareness of the underlying reasons driving your addiction and addictive behaviour.  She can support you to develop new skills and establish supportive relationships that can lead you towards a life of sustainable abstinence.

Whether you’re coming to therapy for help with addiction or any other personal issue, Janis provides an opportunity to find workable solutions to support you.

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Over the past two years, Janis has combined her warmth with a curiosity to create trusting therapeutic relationships where open dialogue feels possible.  She works long term with many of her clients and also welcomes clients on a short-term basis.

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 Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English, Lithuanian

Kate Crawford

Senior Consultant Therapist
Head of Therapy Services

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. Alongside over a decade’s experience working with a full range of issues,  Kate has particular expertise in relationship issues, gender dysphoria, sexual problems, family issues and abuse.

In therapy, the most important thing is the relationship between client and therapist. Warm and approachable, Kate is far from the stereotype of the silent therapist. Clients often comment on how quickly they feel at ease talking to her. She creates a space where clients can be themselves, to be heard and seen in a way that is rare. Kate tends to work long-term with her clients, enabling deep and lasting change.

Kate joined One Therapy in 2010, and in 2017 was made Head of Therapy Services.  In this role she ensures One Therapy provides a high quality service and supports our growing team of therapists.

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Most clients continue with Kate long term. Her current clients have all remained with her for at least two years.

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.

Registered Member
College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists

'Kim’s knowledge in her field is obvious and she also clearly has a natural talent for being of real service to couples. Kim helped my partner and I both as a couple and individually, guiding us to understand, verbalise and be respectful of our own needs as well as each others’. Client feedback

Location: Fitzrovia

Language: English

Kira Jolliffe

Senior Consultant Therapist

Clinical Supervisor

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Kira has worked with One Therapy for over 10 years. In that time, her commitment and contribution to her clients has been extraordinary.

Location: Bloomsbury, Kensington

Language: English

Leigh McAlea

Leigh is a qualified integrative psychotherapist which means she uses a variety of approaches in response to the unique lives and needs of every client.

She supports individuals with a diverse range of issues including depression, anxiety, loss, relationship problems, disordered eating, low self-esteem, work-place bullying, issues around identity and sexual, physical and emotional abuse.

Leigh models a humanistic approach in her steadfast commitment to every person's potential for healing and growth, providing a safe, warm space to talk about the problems and struggles her clients face. She also uses a psychodynamic lens to explore how current difficulties - for example how you feel about yourself or others - may be strongly influenced by past experiences and early childhood relationships. In doing so, unhelpful thinking, feeling and behaving patterns can be fully understood and released, creating space for meaningful change.

Leigh believes wholeheartedly that the relationship between therapist and client is about collaboration and connection which she regards as an essential part of success in therapy.

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: 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

Registered Member
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.

In addition to long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, Marta offers shorter-term Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT), which is a 16-session individual treatment for depression and anxiety. As a DIT therapist, Marta works with her patients on resolving their difficulties in a positive and creative way, which improves emotional health.

Accredited Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English, Polish

Michelle Taylor

Michelle is a qualified psychodynamic therapist providing a calm and confidential space to allow her clients to unravel their deepest anxieties whilst feeling understood. Michelle has particular experience working with adults experiencing bereavement and loss, anxiety, and depression. Michelle also works with clients with work related issues, relationship issues and those who have experienced physical and emotional abuse, addiction, and trauma.

Counselling can be a process of growth and self-discovery and by working closely with clients, Michelle gives space to explore thoughts, feelings, and behaviours so that clients can develop a better understanding of themselves and others. Working in a non-judgemental, sensitive, and empathetic way, Michelle builds strong relationships with her clients helping them to learn how to manage their lives and develop their sense of self-worth.

Although Michelle usually works long-term with her clients to enable deeper personal growth, she also works shorter-term with her clients, focussing on specific issues.

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

As well as working as a therapist at One Therapy London, Michelle also works at a not-for-profit counselling service in Hertfordshire and works as a personal tutor for counselling and psychotherapy students.

Location: Fitzrovia

Language: English

Mita Hiremath

Senior Consultant Therapist
Mita has been involved in the field of counselling and psychotherapy for over 30 years and has a wealth of experience working in the voluntary sector, the NHS and private practice. She is a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist. Additionally, she holds an MSc in Psychotherapy and is a trained EMDR therapist. She has also facilitated support groups in the voluntary sector and supervised other counsellors. Prior to becoming a therapist, Mita was a training officer where she carried out training courses on a number of areas, including stress management, counselling skills and loss and bereavement.

Mita draws on several different approaches as a therapist which enables her to work sensitively and creatively with different people’s needs. She is able to create a safe environment where clients can talk about whatever they feel is distressing them or holding them back. This process enables Mita's clients to feel safe so that they can fully explore their difficulties and find new ways that lead them to living more fulfilling and enriching  lives.

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

Mita sees individuals and couples for short and longer–term counselling.
Accredited Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy
EMDR Association of UK and Ireland

Though most of Mita's clients continue in long-term therapy, Mita is happy to provide shorter-term therapy, too.

Location: Bloomsbury

Language: English

Nicola Reeves

Nicola is a psychodynamic psychotherapist and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) therapist.

Nicola believes in giving clients time and space to approach therapy in the way they need to approach it. She finds this is the best way to develop a therapeutic relationship that allows feelings to be truly explored and evaluated.

As a psychodynamic psychotherapist, Nicola knows that no two people experience the world or relationships in the same way, and her sessions look at how clients’ current emotions and thoughts are impacted by their early experiences, relationships, and cultural and social backgrounds.

She can integrate EMDR therapy into any work on traumatic memories and experiences.

Accredited
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Soho

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 education, 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.

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
United Kingdom Council for 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.

Please note: this therapist does not accept payment in cash.

Accredited,
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Soho

Language: English

Rhiannon Whipps

Registered Member,

Location: Soho

Language: English

Sara Barry

Senior Consultant Therapist

Sara qualified as a Person-Centred therapist 20 years ago and completed further training in Attachment Psychotherapy in 2016.

Sara's approach is warm and collaborative, with an emphasis on creating a safe environment for her clients to explore and challenge unhelpful beliefs, problematic patterns of behaviour and relationship issues.  She places great value in the therapeutic relationship, to better understand how clients relate to themselves and others.  Believing that the quality of our relationships can dictate the quality of our lives, Sara supports clients in understanding how past experiences may be impacting on current relationships, and how to integrate more helpful ways of relating.  Autonomy and choice are at the heart of her approach, and she aims to establish a relationship where clients can reconnect with their own capacity for healing and personal growth.

With 20 years’ experience working with a diverse range of clients, Sara has a particular interest in helping clients with relationship and attachment issues, childhood trauma, anxiety and life transitions.

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Over the past year, 84% of Sara’s clients have continued therapy with Sara after their first meeting with her.

Location: Kensington

Language: English

Shelley Klein

As a psychodynamic therapist Shelley brings a wealth of experience to her work and supports her patients to talk about those aspects of their lives they are finding painful, upsetting or difficult to deal with, in a confidential, non-judgmental and peaceful setting.

Shelley is particularly interested in working with those who are experiencing depression, bereavement, high levels of anxiety, ongoing relationship issues or childhood trauma. She firmly believes that psychotherapy can help anyone who is searching for meaning in life and that by talking through their experiences her patients begin to formulate a clearer understanding of themselves in relation to how past experiences continue to have an affect on them in the present.

Prior to training as a therapist, Shelley worked in the Arts and believes this has allowed her to bring a depth of understanding to her patients’ emotional lives in an increasingly challenging world.

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

In 2022, 91% of clients have continued in therapy with Shelley after their first meeting with her.

Location: Soho

Language: English

Silvi Naskinova

Silvi is a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist offering long and short-term therapy to adult individuals. She aims to provide a safe, non-judgmental and confidential space for clients to explore their thoughts and feelings. Her work supports individuals in understanding how their past experiences and unconscious motivations manifest in the present, promoting greater self-awareness.

Silvi has a particular interest in (and enjoys working with) diversity in the room, offering a space for individuals to explore their identity and its role in their life. She sees the therapist-client relationship as a collaborative space where her clients can feel comfortable and engaged, taking each session in the direction that feels most important to them.

Silvi is experienced in working with addiction, sexuality and gender identity, grief and loss, eating disorders, abuse, trauma, depression and anxiety, PTSD, cultural differences and migration and chronic physical conditions. She aims to help clients understand their experiences by connecting root causes and identifying patterns of behaviour.

Silvi has completed further training in Cultural Humility, Relationships, Sexuality and Gender Diversity, Neurodiversity and Disability.

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English

Silvia Checa Casals

Silvia (she/her) has lived in Spain and France where she completed her studies in Social Work and Advanced French. She later moved to the UK where she studied Integrative Psychotherapy. Since that time, Silvia has undertaken further specialised training to enhance her counselling practice including Mindfulness, Gender, Sexual, and Relationship Diversity Therapy (GSRD), Trauma and Addiction, Working with Suicidal Ideation, Domestic Abuse, and Loss and Bereavement.

Silvia values client autonomy and puts this at the centre of her work. Silvia works with whatever her clients bring to the room, to support them in making sense of their experiences. She understands that past experiences have an important role in individuals’ lives and helps her clients so they can make sense of how these past experiences could be affecting their current lives.

Silvia brings a vibrant, creative energy to her clients; supporting and encouraging them to develop confidence in their own ability to understand and help themselves. She has a strong commitment to diversity and is LBGTQ+ friendly and is a trauma-informed therapist. Collaborative, authentic, warm, challenging and creative are some of the words that underpin her style. Therapy with Silvia is open, natural and non-judgemental.

Some of the areas Silvia offers support for include gender and sexual identities, relationships, loss and bereavement, substance misuse, self-esteem issues, anxiety, depression, various types of abuse, personal growth and identity, and cultural separation and migration.

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Soho

Language: English, Spanish, Catalan, French

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.

Registered Member
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.

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English, Croatian/Serbian

Tom Deitch

Tom is a popular and approachable psychotherapist who has extensive experience working with people from a variety of social and cultural backgrounds. He brings a wealth of life experience, training and understanding to his work, offering help with depression, trauma, anxiety, abuse, sexual problems, addiction, relationship difficulties and many of the other obstacles life throws at us.

Tom knows how difficult starting therapy can be. From the first appointment, Tom adopts a positive and empathic attitude towards each of his clients. He works in a collaborative, non-judgemental way and uses straightforwardness, humour and a pragmatic approach to help his clients better understand their life experiences. Tom believes that shame, guilt and a lack of self-regard often stand between us and the life we want to live, and that these ideas and feelings about ourselves can be successfully challenged and changed in therapy.

Tom enjoys getting to know his clients. No subject is taboo in his sessions; he encourages his clients to talk frankly and openly about sex, substance use, death anxiety, childhood trauma and any other topics we might find challenging to discuss in everyday life. Ultimately Tom believes in his clients and in their potential to work through their concerns in a safe and confidential environment.

Tom works short or longer-term, depending on what is needed.

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

'Tom was a very good listener, asked great questions, and helped me understand myself and my emotions better than I have ever done. Tom was also very easy to deal with and professional. A very positive experience. '

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 Member
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.

Registered Member
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.

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English