Chartered Counselling Psychologist

Sarah is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist with over ten years' experience working in adult mental health within a range of clinical settings including NHS, charities and private practice. Sarah has worked with a wide range of emotional, psychological and relationship difficulties including depression, anxiety, trauma and interpersonal difficulties. She has gained specialist training and experience working with borderline personality disorder and emotion regulation difficulties.

CBT Practitioner
Over 5s

Shanay is an experienced Mental Health Nurse and CBT Practitioner. She has worked both in the NHS and private sector with adults and adolescents with eating disorders, and currently works in an NHS specialist child and adolescent eating disorders outpatient service in South London.

Shanay has experience in delivering CBT for Generalised anxiety, OCD, self-harm, social anxiety, depression and eating disorders. She also sees young people who have high perfectionism traits and Autism.

Shanay sees adults and children over the age of 5. She is also trained in family therapy for eating disorders and does physical health monitoring for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and ARFID.

Natalie is a Person-Centred Psychotherapist and is intensively trained in Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT). She is registered with the United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy (UKCP) and is an accredited member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Natalie is also a clinical member of the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation (ESTD) and the Society for Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (SfDBT).

Natalie has been practicing as a psychotherapist for the past twelve years, supporting adults, children, and families in a variety of settings and from diverse backgrounds. Currently, Natalie is a principal psychotherapist at West London NHS Trust, where she works within acute inpatient care with adults experiencing severe and enduring mental health issues. She also works as an associate psychotherapist for a specialist trauma service providing nationwide treatment for NHS patients with dissociative disorders. Prior to this, Natalie was the inpatient Psychology and Psychotherapy Lead for adult acute mental health at the Bethlem Royal Hospital, and a parent psychotherapist for a children’s mental health.

Creating a therapeutic relationship where her clients feel heard and understood is at the heart of Natalie’s relational therapeutic approach. As a person-centred psychotherapist, she believes that we all have the capacity for change and growth and aims to facilitate this by providing a safe place for her clients to acknowledge and explore their feelings and experiences openly and honestly. Influenced by attachment theory and how our sense of self is informed by our earliest relationships and environments, Natalie hopes to support her clients in better understanding their early life experiences and how they may be impacting them in the here and now. She trusts that growing self-awareness offers relief from distress and enables a greater understanding and acceptance of self, which creates opportunity for positive change.

Natalie works with individuals from diverse backgrounds and is experienced in working with wide-ranging challenges and issues. Her specialisms include working with those experiencing severe states of psychological distress, including complex trauma and dissociation, personality difficulties, self-harming behaviours, and suicidality.

Clinical Psychologist

Dr Nina Melunsky is a Clinical Psychologist who has supported adults with a range of difficulties including anxiety, depression, psychosis, trauma and relational difficulties. She currently works part-time as a Senior Clinical Psychologist within the NHS, supporting adults who have learning disabilities and mental health problems. Having trained in therapeutic approaches including cognitive analytic therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, and systemic therapy, Nina is able to tailor therapy to meet the needs of the person. She is passionate about supporting people to live the life that they want through a collaborate approach to therapy and is particularly interested in helping people to think about their life experiences and the impact they have had. Nina is also a supervisor and trainer, having offered training to universities, NHS Trusts, and other professional groups.

Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Dr Lucy Taylor is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with over 20 years experience in both the NHS and private practice. She provides individual therapeutic work for children, young people, their families and adults.

Dr Taylor's main areas of interest and specialism are cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), child and adolescent emotional wellbeing, parental stress , anxiety disorders, eating disorders and self-harm. She is trained in a range of evidence-based therapies, with specialist training in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) for Post-Traumatic Stress. In addition, she has trained in mindfulness and has the Paws.b qualification to enable her to teach mindfulness within primary schools. She is an accredited child and adolescent member of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).

Prior to moving into independent practice, Lucy set up and jointly led the Child and Adolescent Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Service at the Maudsley Hospital. This service offers intensive therapeutic work for suicidal young people and their families.

Dr Taylor has also published a CBT book for treating young people who self-harm with Routledge and the second edition is out in July 2022.

Clinical Psychologist

Dr Luca Palmili is an experienced Clinical Psychologist specialising in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), working in the NHS and in private practice.

Luca trained in Clinical Psychology at the University of Bologna (Italy), before completing his doctorate at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, and furthering his specialist CBT training at the University of Oxford.

He is fully accredited with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, registered with the Health and Care Professions Council and holds chartered status (CPsychol) with the British Psychological Society.

In his clinical work, Luca is passionate about delivering evidence-based interventions to adults experiencing depression and anxiety, with a special interest in PTSD and trauma.

CBT Therapist

Rebecca is a BABCP accredited cognitive behavioural therapist who passionate about supporting individuals struggling with eating disorders and body image concerns.

She has spent the last six years in the NHS working with adults, young people and families. Rebecca has worked as an Assistant Psychologist in an adults eating disorders service, delivering group and individual interventions. She has also worked within the Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders.

Rebecca uses evidence-based therapeutic approaches, such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy-Enhanced (CBT-E) and uses her knowledge of other therapeutic approaches to tailor treatment to the individual. She aims to create an environment, without judgement, in which individuals can understand their difficulties and learn invaluable skills.

Counselling Psychologist
16+

Dr Alena Torriani is a Counselling Psychologist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), and a Chartered Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (CPsychol AFBPsS). Since 2012 she has been working therapeutically with adults and young people whose problems range from severe and enduring conditions to more easily treatable issues, including: Depression, anxiety and panic disorders, family and relationship problems (including high conflict divorce), burnout and stress, trauma, and personality disorders.

Having had clinical experience within the NHS and in private organisations, Dr Torriani is skilled at providing specialised assessments, developing custom treatment plans, and offering shortand long-term psychological therapy. Her clinical interests include attachment-based relationship dysfunctions and interpersonal trauma.

During her doctorate degree at Regent’s University London, she received core training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, and Existential Analysis. She was further educated at the Anna Freud Centre in Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT), an evidence-based therapy for personality difficulties, and she has undergone BPS-approved training in supervision. Drawing upon her integrative clinical experience, Dr Torriani offers a bespoke approach that is grounded in a compassionate and process-focused therapeutic style.

She is passionate about helping people build emotional resilience, to empower them to release negative patterns, to feel a greater sense of purpose, and to have more fulfilling connections. She is further an advocate of holistic wellbeing by taking into account how our lifestyle affects our stress levels, which is intrinsically linked to both our physical and psychological health. It is therefore beneficial to acknowledge the importance of sleep, movement, nutrition, and mindfulness when addressing mental health concerns. The combination of improving our physical wellbeing while simultaneously uncovering the deeper causes of emotional distress can greatly improve psychotherapy results.

Trainee Psychotherapist
18+

Lucinda is an experienced trauma-informed mental health worker who has been actively involved in the field for over ten years. She is a member of the UKCP and is currently studying her MSc in Humanistic Psychotherapy. Lucinda has worked both in the private and public sector. She works as a trauma-informed behavioural coach in private practice in addition to working with in-patient and out-patient facilities in order to help provide the best level of care and support to clients. She also currently manages The Saving Lives Program, a charity focused on helping those who suffer with self-harm and suicidal ideation.

Lucinda has a creative background in the performing arts and enjoys implementing creativity in the therapeutic space as a way of increasing self-awareness and exploring difficult issues. At the centre of her practice, Lucinda believes that each individual is unique. She aims to provide an empathic and non-judgemental environment in order for her clients to feel safe to explore distressing topics and embrace opportunities for change.

Psychotherapist

Yasmin has over 20 years’ experience working as a Mental Health Nurse as well as Couples Psychotherapist experience for the past 12 years.

Working in the NHS, Yasmin has worked in CAMHS offering assessment and treatment to young people/teenagers with a wide range of mental health issues such as, but not limited to, anxiety/depression, self-harm, school refusal, family issues and challenges within friendships.

Yasmin has also worked at the Tavistock clinic on a specialist team that was set up to provide support to young people who were at risk of placement breakdown in foster care. She provided confidential one to one sessions for those at risk within that service.

Yasmin works with a person-centred approach, incorporating other therapeutic styles where appropriate.

Having had management positions over the years, supervised other mental health professionals and provided training, her passion is working directly with young people, in particular the teenage years.

As well as working with young people, Yasmin has been working as couple’s counsellor with Relate since 2018.

Yasmin completed an MSc in Psychotherapy at Surrey University in 2005. Yasmin qualified at a couples counsellor in 2014 and is a member of BACP as well as The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society.