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Alcoholics Anonymous
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The Awareness Centre currently offers Counselling and Psychotherapy Services across the London Boroughs of Camden, Chelsea, City Of London, Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth and Westminster through our external clinical therapists. Click a pin on the map below to find a therapist in your area.

Our clinical practitioners are registered with HPC (Health Professions Council), COSRT (College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists), AFT (Association of Family Therapy), FDAP (The Federation of Drug & Alcohol Professionals), ITA (Institute of Transactional Analysis), ETA (European Association of Transactional Analysis), BPS (British Psychological Society), BACP (The British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy), UKCP (The UK Council for Psychotherapy ), Association for Coaching UK & EMCC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council), HPC (Health Professionals Council) and the ISST (Internal Society for Schema Therapy) .

All our consultations are by appointment only, however, sometimes appointments become available from time to time so it is worth calling to see if we have any availability on the day.

To make an appointment to see one of our therapists then please contact Ruth Nightingale, our Counselling Coordinator, either by phone on 020 8673 4545 or use the online referral form below.

Therapists

Beverley Archdale Earls Court SW10	Christopher Clow Battersea SW11 & Balham SW12	Julia Crabtree Clapham South SW12	Paul Croal Stockwell SW9	Joanna Davies Clapham SW4
Ros Draper Southwark SE1	Tara Harrison Belgravia SW1W	Luli Harvey Brixton SW2	Dr Gillian Heath Mile End E3	Paul Kellett van Leer Battersea SW11
Michaela McCarthy Clapham SW4 & Mayfair W1	Christian Murphy Clapham SW4	Paola Pomponi Chelsea SW3	Peter Teigen Liverpool Street EC2A	Dr Tünde Vanko Mayfair W1U
	Dr Robert Watson Elephant & Castle SE1	Nick Williams Forest Hill SE23	Gilead Yeffett Liverpool Street EC2A

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Beverley Archdale Beverley is a UKCP registered psychotherapist and counsellor of several years experience, specialising in relationship and psychosexual issues. Her way of working is an integration of several different approaches. These include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, (a branch of cognitive behavioural therapy) which is a mindfulness-based therapy shown to be effective with a diverse range of clinical conditions in short and longer term work. The goal of ACT is to create a rich and meaningful life, while accepting the discomforts that are inevitably part of it. Beverely endeavours to provide a non-judgemental, warm and accepting relationship. Her aim is to facilitate greater insight, self-understanding and clarity, increased self acceptance, improved interpersonal relationships and a better quality of life. In this way Beverley offers short-term or longer term open ended therapy with individuals and couples and is open to working with sexual minorities. Beverley also offers EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) which can be used to treat a variety of emotional and behavioural difficulties, including anxiety, pain, panic, phobias, procrastination and trauma. Qualifications and Memberships MA (Merit) Psychotherapy & Counselling - Regent's College Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy - Regents College Certificate and Diploma in Psychosexual and Relationship Counselling. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - Intermediate Skills Training EMDR - Part 3 Advanced Training UKCP Registered A Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. A General Member of the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists She has also completed courses in NLP, Art in Therapy, The Psychophysiology of Trauma and PTSD, Mindfulness and Focusing, Working with Sexual Abuse. Fee: Individuals £50 - 60, Couples £65-75 for 50 mins Seven days notice of cancellation is requested. Practice: Redcliffe Gardens, Earls Court SW10 9HH Back to Map

Christopher M A Clow UKRCP, BACP (Accred.) Christopher is a Counsellor/Psychotherapist, who has been working within clinical settings since 2001. He is able to offer counselling and/or psychotherapy sessions for individuals, couples and families and also provides counselling supervision for counsellors and psychotherapists in training or qualified within private and organisational settings. Christopher's approach to counselling and psychotherapy is essentially Pluralistic: Integrative and Relational grounded in Humanistic, Existential, Systemic and Psychodynamic principles.In other words, he integrates and blends appropriate therapeutic approaches and considerations according to your needs, expectations and goals. He prefers to avoid theoretical dogma and work with what you bring to therapy, exploring your current and if you so wish your past experience perhaps making some sense of how your history impacts on the present, what systems are active in your world and help you to find meaning and understanding in your life today. Talking therapy can be about finding what is difficult for you to say. Christopher's clinical practice also includes blending-in or working exclusively with a Cognitive Behavioural Therapeutic (CBT) approach and Trauma Incident Reduction (TIR) techniques and tools as required. Supervision Christopher is a qualified counselling/consultancy supervisor (2005) and is able to offer Humanistic, Psychodynamic, Integrative and Existential clinical supervision alongside consultancy supervision. He has considerable experience of supervising in private practice, charity and private organisational settings qualified and in-training counsellors and psychotherapists, healthcare professionals, crisis and trauma management volunteers and staff working with adults and adolescents, domestic violence advocates, addiction therapists/workers and NHS counsellors/psychotherapists working within an agency setting. Qualifications:            MA Counselling & Psychotherapy, B.Sc (Hons) Soc PG-Dip Couples and Family Systemic Psychotherapist Adv. Dip. Therapeutic Counselling, Dip. Counselling Supervision Memberships: BACP, AFT, FDAP Practice: Lavender Hill, Battersea SW11 1JR and Bedford Hill, Balham SW12 9HE Fees: Individuals £55.00 - £65.00  (50-minute sessions usually once weekly. Twice weekly or fortnightly possible). Couples £65.00 - £75.00  (50-minute sessions usually once weekly. Fortnightly possible). Families £75.00- £85.00 Back to Map

Julia Crabtree Julia works in private practice in SW London, offering long and short term face-to-face therapy to individuals and couples for a wide range of issues.  She also offers supervision for counselors and psychotherapists. Having started her working life as a computer programmer, Julia went on to work as a freelance translator for many years while raising a family. Back in London after her husband’s death she developed an interest in healing and did some training, only to find that clients seemed to want to sit and talk.  Various counseling and psychotherapy trainings followed as well as work with domestic violence prevention, alcohol and drug rehab, NHS staff counselling and a placement at the sexual health clinic at Kings College Hospital; she set up her private practice in 1999. Julia aims to establish a safe “therapeutic vessel”, a container where clients can tell their story, begin to understand its origins and development and allow the alchemical process of therapy to promote their personal development and/or find their best way forward.  Her approach is integrative with a transpersonal perspective. Clinical areas of interest include : relationship difficulties, including psychosexual issues the establishment of good patterns of communication abandonment and loss the development of a healthy sense of self stress, anxiety and depression finding a place for spirituality Training and qualifications : CPCAB Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling Advanced Diploma in Transpersonal Psychotherapy Diploma in Sexual and Relationship Counselling Diploma in Clinical Supervision and Consultancy Accredited Healer with the College of Psychic Studies UKCP registered, MBACP, COSRT accredited Fees: Psychotherapy and Healing - £60 per hour, Supervision - £30-£40 per hour, fees for shamanic work by negotiation. Practice: Cathles Road, SW12 9LG Back to Map

Paul Croal Paul has been working in the therapy field for the past eleven years. Born in Ireland he’s been living and working in London and the US for the past twenty five years. He’s experienced in treating emotional and psychological issues and with helping create possibility in people’s lives. Paul works as a counsellor, psychotherapist, supervisor and couples/psychosexual therapist in private practise. He’s a member of staff at CCPE (Centre for counselling and psychotherapy education) where he teaches and does group supervision. He regularly delivers training and workshops and has run several counselling services and has worked with young people and in the substance misuse field and in the NHS. He offers evidence based psychological therapy which is collaborative, respectful and tailored to the individual. He recognises that each individuals pace and learning process is uniquely individual but asks that the client take full responsibility for their own recovery. He always attempts to identify and build upon people’s strengths and resources while tackling the issues presented respectfully. Paul works integratively and creatively using traditional narrative style, Gestalt, bodywork, art, TA, Human Givens, CBT and dream work. Paul particularly enjoys working with couples and individuals with relational or psychosexual issues. Fee: Individuals, £55 (50 mins), Couples, £65 (50 mins) Registered for private health care with WPA, Cigna,Pru-Health, Standard life, Aviva and Simply Health Practice: Grantham Road, Stockwell SW9 Website: www.paulcroal.co.uk Back to Map

Joanna Davies Bsc (Hons); Adv.Dip; Dip; MBACP Accred; COSRT Joanna is a Humanistic Integrative and Psychosexual Counsellor.She works with straight, gay and bi-sexual individuals and uses a number of different theoretical approaches; psychodynamic, CBT, gestalt, person-centred, transactional analysis and an integrated trauma model. Integrating these models she is able to meet the changing needs of each client. I specialise in the following areas: Sexual Abuse, Anxiety, Depression, Self-esteem, Confidence, Identity issues, Stress, Domestic violence, Trauma, Self-harm, Grief and Loss, Relationship issues - Comminication issues, Trust issues, Affairs and betrayals, Insecurity, Intimacy issues, Relationship break-ups, Changing negative relational patterns, Co-dependency, Sexual issues - Rapid Ejaculation, Erectile Dysfunction , Performance Anxiety, Delayed Ejaculation, Loss of/decreased sexual desire, Anxiety/phobias around sex, Sexual issues resulting from an abusive experience, Sex and shame, Sexual identity confusion, Inability to orgasm, Inability to have penetrative sex (vaginismus), Painful sex (Dispareunia), Sex after Childbirth. Joanna is an Accredited Member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and adheres to their Ethical Framework for Good Practice. She is also a member of the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapy. Fee: £50 Individuals, £60 Couples Practice: Clapham High Street, Clapham SW4 7TG Back to Map

Ros Draper Ros is a UKCP registered psychotherapist and approved supervisor. She has many years experience as a trainer and therapist  with relationship difficulties, eating disorders  sufferers and their families and ‘stuckness’  in  organisations. Her way of working is an integration of psychodynamic and systemic/relational psychotherapy. Ros offers short or long term therapy to individuals, groups, families and couples, individual and group supervision, and facilitation for organisational issues. With clients Ros aims to create a reflective meeting space where any changes they desire professionally or personally can be negotiated. Her focus is on growth and development and when necessary repair and restoration in clients’ relationships with themselves and with significant others. For Ros a good outcome of therapy, facilitation and supervision is when clients recognise and celebrate their unique qualities and develop a delight in themselves and their talents. Qualifications: Systemic Psychotherapist and Supervisor -  trained at the Tavistock Clinic, London, Imago Relationship Therapist and Supervisor – trained in USA and Denmark Fee: Individuals, Families and Couples from £100 per hour; Psychotherapy  Groups (limited to 6 persons) £50 per person for a 2 hour session; Supervision Groups (limited to 4 persons) £150 per person for a 3 hour session. Fees for work in organisations are based on a daily rate and negotiated  for each assignment. Practice: Nelson Square, Southwark SE1 0QA Back to Map

Tara Harrison Tara is a psychodynamic counsellor and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice. She has experience of working with abuse, anxiety, bereavement and loss, childhood trauma, depression, low self-esteem, relationship difficulties, work-related issues, personal development, sexuality, traumatic experiences and lack of direction in life. Tara practices psychodynamic counselling and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, which means that she works in a way which explores what lies beneath our actions and repetitive patterns of behaviour, how the past affects the present; our relationships, our work and our feelings.  Tara offers a secure and confidential professional relationship, through which problems can be identified, confronted and resolved in the privacy of regular, reliable sessions. The work is confidential and respectful of ethnic origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, politics, culture or nationality. She is a member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, and work to the Association's Code of Ethics. About our work together Whatever is on your mind can be brought to the session and talked about. This could be feelings, thoughts, memories or dreams. I will listen and try to help you make sense of how you feel. As our relationship develops, you will discover new insights which can lead to finding different ways of dealing with the problems and feelings that you had been struggling with - often for many years. Tara can offer appointments both during the day and in the evening, depending upon spaces available at the time. For further information or to book an initial consultation, please contact me using the phone numbers or the email link in the left hand corner below.  Initial Consultation We will have a consultation before starting, to look at how we might work together and decide if counselling would be beneficial for you. There is no commitment to ongoing sessions at this stage. Fee: The initial consultation and sessions will cost between £50 and £65, depending on the time of the session, and your personal circumstances. There may be low cost sessions available. Sessions can be arranged for once or twice a week. Practice: Lower Grosvenor Place, Belgravia SW1W  0EN Back to Map

Luli Harvey Accredited BACP/COSRT Counsellor Luli offers psychosexual and relationship counselling in Brixton, South West London. She works with both individuals and couples on an open-ended basis or for an agreed time period. After a long career in teaching, she retrained as a counsellor, starting her practice in  HMP Brixton, followed by work in GP surgery in Clapham, a private health clinic, and Kings College Hospital. She has been running a private counselling practice since 2006. Her approach is to work with different aspects of a person’s life in terms of background, family group, culture, and environment, all of which will influence how they relate to others. The aim is to enable clients to work purposefully at their own pace and with what they choose to share. She starts with an initial assessment session, and although the client is in charge of the material they bring, she does asks questions in order to get a clear picture of their unique situation, and to establish any medical issues that may impact on therapy. The support she offers to individuals and couples is to help them unpack their sexual and relationship problems and discuss them, identify certain patterns of response and behaviour, acknowledge the feelings involved, and work towards regaining the balance and understanding needed to move on constructively. She provides a safe, supportive, and confidential therapeutic space with time for self reflection on past patterns, and time to learn new skills and attitudes to self and others for the future She is experienced in helping individuals and couples who have had difficulties with: Interpersonal Communication Sexual problems, abuse, relationships and sexuality Panic attacks Stress and anxiety Loss, separation and bereavement Redundancy Depression Addiction Qualifications: PG Diploma in Psychosynthesis Counselling, University of East London, Diploma in Psychosexual and Relationship Counselling, Accredited Member of British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and Accredited Member of the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists (COSRT), Approximately 100 hours of training in Nonviolent Communication Skills with UK and international trainers including Dr Marshall Rosenberg. www.nvc-uk.com Areas of Specialism: Psychosexual and relationship counselling for individuals and couples.  Fees:  £50ph individuals, £60ph for couples Practice: Fairmount Road, Brixton SW2 2BJ Back to Map

Dr Gillian Heath Gillian is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist with over 10 years experience of working with a range of psychological issues including low self esteem; work-based stress, relationship problems, anxiety, depression and eating disorders. She specialises in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness and Schema Therapy (an integrated therapy combining CBT and psychodynamic approaches). Initially therapy is focused on understanding the origins of your difficulties and mapping out the pattern of thoughts, feelings and responses that appear to keep the problems going. Then the therapy works to give you the insight and skills you need to approach things in a healthier way.   Her practice is near Mile End Tube (2 stops on the Central Line from Liverpool Street) Qualifications: Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (University College London, 2004), Awarded Chartered Status with the British Psychological Society (2006), Accredited as an Advanced Level Schema Therapist and Supervisor (International Society of Schema Therapy, 2010) Fees: £90 (privately funded) or £110 (private health insurance). Practice: Chisenhale Road, Mile End E3 5QZ Website: www.become-psychology-london.co.uk Back to Map

Paul Kellett van Leer Paul is a qualified and accredited counsellor and registered psychotherapist offering counselling and psychotherapy to individuals on a one-to-one basis, as couples and in groups. He offers 50-minute weekly sessions for individual time-focussed counselling and ongoing psychotherapy, as well as 75-minute sessions on a weekly or occasional basis for couples. He also offers regular and occasional clinical consultation, supervision and training for counsellors and psychotherapists individually and in groups. Paul is a Certified Transactional Analyst, as well as a Provisional Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst. He is an accredited by the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and registered with the United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapists as well as the European Association for Psychotherapy. Paul holds a first class Bachelors degree with honours and a Masters degree with distinction both in Psychology from the Open University, a Masters degree with distinction in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy from Middlesex University, and a Clinical Diploma in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy from the Metanoia Institute. Paul has been in private practice since 2003, working with individuals, couples and groups presenting a wide variety of issues. He has supervised and trained counsellors and psychotherapists since 2007, and was a primary tutor with the Metanoia Institute’s Transactional Analysis Masters programme between 2007 and 2011. He was the Counselling Co-ordinator at Off The Record, Croydon between 2004 and 2006, and an Associate Lecturer at Epping Forest College. He has also published a number of book chapters and articles on psychotherapy theory and practice. Fees: Individuals £40 - £60, Couples £80 - £120 depending on frequency and session time. Practice: Muncaster Road, Battersea SW11 6NX Back to Map

Michaela McCarthy Michaela McCarthy is the Managing Director of The Awareness Centre. She is a qualified Counsellor, Psychotherapist, Psychosexual and Relationship Therapist, Clinical Supervisor and Organisational Consultant. She is MBACP Snr. Accred. (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists), FDAP Accredited (Federation of Drug and Alcohol Professionals) and UKRCP Registered (United Kingdom Register of Counsellors & Psychotherapists).  Michaela is also a Member of COSRT (College of Sex and Relationship Therapy), an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Medicine, a Member of the British Associate of Sexual Educators and a Member of AHPP Association for Humanistic Psychology Practitioners. Michaela has worked within the private and public sector over the years and has an established private practice in Clapham and Mayfair. She currently works with individuals, couples and groups and facilitates many workshops and CPD seminars at The Awareness Centre and for other organisations.  Michaela is also a healthcare provider. She has a special interest and understanding of addiction including sex and love addiction, relationships, trauma, personal and business development.     Fees: Clapham: Individuals and couples, 50 minute session - £90 Mayfair: Individuals and couples, 50 minutes session - £130 Private Healthcare Clapham and Mayfair £130 Clinical Supervision Clapham and Mayfair £90 Training Daily rate £700 Practice: Broadhinton Road, Clapham SW4 0LT & Duke Street, Mayfair W1U 3ED Website: www.theawarenesscentre.com Back to Map

Christian Murphy Christian has been working as a psychotherapist since 1999, and now runs a private practice, seeing clients in Clapham. He offers a wide range of psychotherapy and personal development work, dealing with various issues including anxiety, depression and loss. His particular interest is in issues around identity, self-esteem, isolation and life transitions. Christian has worked in various roles offering assistance to people suffering from difficulty or distress in their lives. He has crisis support experience and before his practice as a psychotherapist, he worked in the legal profession dealing with domestic violence, family and welfare issues. Outside of psychotherapeutic work, Christian has a particular interest in workplace problems. He conducts executive coaching and employee support, helping people to address the many pressures they face in the modern workplace. This workplace issues expertise is informed by his legal experience in the commercial sector, which has included work in a city law firm and a large plc. Christian has also worked as a manager in a large employee assistance programme, providing support and various workplace interventions to employees, their managers and HR departments. He has also managed large teams of practitioners providing counselling within the NHS. Christian is a clinical supervisor at The Awareness Centre and a consultant member of The Awareness Centre Organisational Development Team. Christian has completed a four-year training in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy at The Metanoia Institute, and is a Senior Accredited Counsellor and Psychotherapist with The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. He has completed the Post-Graduate Diploma in the Psychodynamics of Human Development offered by The British Association of Psychotherapists, as well as the one-year Introduction to Group Analysis course at The Institute of Group Analysis. His development as a psychoanalytic practitioner continues through his attendance at group relations conferences, including those organised by the A.K. Rice Institute, and advanced training at The SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Fee: £60 for a once-a-week evening session. Some lower fee spaces are available during the day. Practice: Macaulay Road, Clapham SW4 0QX Back to Map

Paola Pomponi Paola trained at the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regent’s College, London. She holds a Masters Degree in Counselling & Psychotherapy and an Advanced Diploma in Existential Psychotherapy (ADEP). She is also a Psychosexual and Relationship Therapist and general member of COSRT and works with individuals and couples. She trained in CBT ( Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) which she implements as part of her Existential orientation. Paola is originally from Italy and has lived in the UK for the best part of 30 years. She can provide Psychotherapy in both English and Italian. Coming from a business background and,  together with her life experience and clinical practice, she is very much aware and sympathetic with the fast pace of contemporary life and all the consequent anxiety, fatigue and, at times, loss of direction that can be the result of a high profile career and demanding business activity. She practices Existential Psychotherapy in order to facilitate her clients’ growth, development and change, during young, middle and later stages of life. She believes that opportunities are plentiful and that therapy can help identify them and find pathways to improve the quality of one’s life. Fee: Individuals from £60, Couples from £80 Practice: Elm Park Lane, Chelsea SW3 6DB Back to Map

Peter Teigen Peter is a UKCP registered Gestalt Psychotherapist practising at the Gestalt Centre London. Peter has several years of practise as a counsellor both within the NHS and the private sectors, working with a broad range of clinical conditions including depression, anxiety, anger management, stress and bereavement. Peter is particularly interested in how people relate to one another and negotiate ways to get their needs met in an increasingly complex social environment. Individuals who struggle with themselves and socially, presenting lack of self-esteem, ambivalence or confusion are regular visitors to Peter’s consulting room where the opportunity for development and change is prerequisite. Fees: Individuals £65 for the session. Couples £90 for the session. Practice: The Gestalt Centre, Clifton Street EC2A 4TP Back to Map

Dr Tünde Vanko Dr Tünde Vanko is a clinical Psychologist practising mainly within an integrative framework using Schema Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). Tünde's special interests are recurring life patterns, like a history of unsatisfactory relationships. Her areas of expertise include depression, anxiety disorders, trauma, relationship issues, borderline and narcissistic personality disorders. Tünde has worked in the field of psychology since 2002 in Hungary, the USA and London. She has an M.A. in Psychology and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. Currently she is working on her Ph.D. In 2007 she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, where she successfully completed further training in CBT and participated in a depression research. During her Fulbright year, she also started the schema therapist training at the Schema Therapy Institute of New York which she successfully completed. Currently, Tünde works in private practice in Mayfair. Prior to founding her private practice, Mayfair therapy, she worked at the Priory Hospital. Tünde is accredited by the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) and the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST). She is a provider for most major private health insurance companies. Fees: £120 individual sessions, £ 90 Supervision Practice: Duke Street, Mayfair, W1U 3ED Back to Map

Dr Robert Watson Robert qualified as Clinical Psychologist in 2001 and worked for the National Health Service in both Sexual Health/HIV and Adult Mental Health Services. In these areas he has worked as a therapist, supervisor, manager and team leader and has extensive experience of providing supervision and consultation to health professionals providing psychological therapies.  Robert is also an accredited Cognitive Analytic (CAT) therapist and has a special interest in using CAT to help people overcome problems with Sex Addiction. Robert has wide experience of working with individuals and a variety of adult mental health problems and specialist expertise in addressing psychosexual problems such as erectile dysfunction, helping people adjust to HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, and to overcome the impact of sexual assault and trauma.  Robert also provides Couple Therapy and has worked with couples in difficulty from a variety of backgrounds and cultures, including same-sex couples.   You may feel nervous about coming to talk to someone you have never met before about your problems. This is natural and Robert will provide a safe and non-judgemental space in which you are able to talk about what is troubling you at your own pace, respecting of gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, nationality, religion or other individual differences. His approach has always attempted to identify and build on people’s strengths and resources whilst at the same time enabling them to creatively look at and overcome their problems.   Robert has a commitment to, and interest in, working with gay, lesbian or bisexual clients, or with those who are unsure about their sexuality.  He has worked with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients on a wide range of issues to do with sexual and emotional well-being.  Robert is approved by the Health Professions Council to work as a Clinical Psychologist, and he is a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society.  He is also an accredited Cognitive Analytic Therapist (CAT) with the Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy.   Qualifications: Cognitive Analytic Therapy Practitioner Diploma (2010), Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (2001)   Fees: Individuals - £90 (privately funded) or £110 (private health insurance) for 50 minutes session, Couples -£250 for 75 minute session. Practice: Newington Causeway, Elephant & Castle, SE1 Back to Map

Nick Williams MSc (Psych.) CTA, UKCP Registered Psychotherapist Nick Williams is fully qualified with an MSc in Psychotherapy and more than ten years of experience working with a broad range of clients. He is a registered member of the UKCP (United Kingdom Council For Psychotherapy) and a certified Transactional Analyst. Nick Williams offers counselling and psychotherapy for individuals and counselling for couples - offering a safe, confidential space to talk. He works with a broad range of issues - both short and long term - and welcomes clients of all cultures and sexualities. Nick Williams trained in both Transactional Analysis (TA) Counselling and Psychotherapy at Metanoia Institute in West London. He is committed to ethical, non-discriminatory practice and ongoing professional development, and abides by the principles and ethics of the UKCP and BACP. Nick’s approach focuses on the importance of relationships in human wellbeing - relationship with ourselves as well as with others - and he has a particular interest in working with underlying, unconscious aspects which result in repeating patterns of relationship. Originally from Wales, Nick has lived in London for nearly twenty years. He has worked in the arts and for a large corporate media company. For many years he worked as a sexual health counsellor for an HIV charity and he has run therapy groups in the NHS. He now works in private practice in Forest Hill SE23 and at the Awareness Centre in Clapham, SW4. Nick works a few minutes walk from Forest Hill station, with frequent trains from London Bridge, Victoria, Clapham Junction, and Croydon, as well as the new 'Overground' line between Croydon and Highbury & Islington. Fees: Individuals £45, Couples £70. All sessions are 50 minutes long Practice: Forest Hill, SE23 Back to Map

Gilead Yeffett Gilead is a Gestalt Psychotherapy practitioner working with individuals, groups and couples. Gilead’s educational background includes Bsc in psychology and MA in Gestalt Psychotherapy.  Psychotherapy Gilead’s main approach is Gestalt, a creative and experiential approach which focuses on how people relate to themselves and others. Gestalt offers an unparalleled way to trying new behaviours and gaining new experiences in a safe way. Gilead currently works in the City and his work includes relationships, shame, anger and separation. Gilead also has a unique approach to working with anger issues helping people to express themselves in more useful and constructive ways. Coaching Gilead also works as a solution-focused and Gestalt coach specialising in workplace assertive communication, anger and improving team communication skills. His clients often struggle to deal with anger issues either being on the receiving end or expressing themselves constructively. Gilead facilitates workshops for teams and groups as well as individual work. Through the workshops and coaching, Gilead’s clients learn to express their needs and wants clearly and assertively. Career highlights Before training as a psychologist and therapist, Gilead had a long career in marketing for international organisations and is experienced in corporate environments. Gilead currently works with clients in the leisure and retail industries. Gilead offers coaching and therapy in English and Hebrew. Fee: Psychotherapy - £50 per 50 minute session, Coaching - £140 per one hour and half session for organisational clients Availability: Psychotherapy - Tuesday and Wednesday evening, Thursday morning. Coaching - Monday and Friday all day Practice: The Gestalt Centre, Clifton Street EC2A 4TP Back to Map