Finding your counsellor or psychotherapist in London

Berrak Damla Çiftcioğlu

Damla offers psychodynamic psychotherapy in a supportive and confidential environment where you can explore the emotions, behaviours and challenges shaping your life. Her approach focuses on understanding the deeper, often unconscious factors influencing your thoughts and experiences. Whether you’re navigating a specific situation or grappling with long-standing personal issues, Damla works with you to uncover the root causes of your difficulties and guide you toward meaningful change.

Through psychodynamic psychotherapy, Damla helps you identify recurring patterns in your relationships and life, as well as the emotional struggles that may feel overwhelming or difficult to express. By gaining insight into how past experiences affect your present, you can develop healthier ways of thinking, feeling, and relating to yourself and others. While therapy may stir up challenging emotions, Damla believes it is ultimately a rewarding journey of growth, empowerment and greater self-awareness.

Damla provides both short-term and long-term therapy and has a particular interest in issues related to immigration, identity and sexual abuse.

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: Turkish, English

Jasmine Behbahani

Jasmine is a qualified counsellor specialising in couples therapy and relationship dynamics. She believes that each partner brings unique experiences and insights to their relationship and aims to create a space where both voices are heard and valued. By fostering authentic connection, Jasmine helps couples explore their relational patterns, deepen their understanding of one another and navigate challenges with greater clarity and compassion.

Integrating mindfulness and somatic experiencing, Jasmine gently guides couples toward greater emotional awareness, resilience and improved communication. She cultivates a warm, non-judgmental space where partners can explore their relationship dynamics, understand their deeper needs and discover meaningful ways to strengthen their connection and grow together.

Advanced Diploma in Couples Counselling
BA (Hons) in Person Centred Counselling

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Bloomsbury

Language: English

Lara Vasey

Lara is an integrative therapist who offers short- and longer-term therapy to individuals. Starting therapy can feel daunting, but Lara’s warm demeanour helps her clients feel more comfortable. She creates a confidential and non-judgemental environment, which enables her clients to open up about their thoughts, feelings and experiences. With empathy and curiosity, her clients feel supported, understood and able to work through things at a pace that feels right for them.

Lara’s style of therapy draws upon different approaches, primarily person-centred and psychodynamic psychotherapy, which can be adapted to suit each client. Exploring past experiences can be effective, as it helps clients to recognise how their childhood has impacted their current life and relationships. Lara has worked with clients from a wide range of backgrounds on issues such as anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, relationship difficulties, childhood trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, work stress and cultural issues.

Life can feel challenging and overwhelming. Lara believes that by providing a trusting and collaborative space, real change through counselling is possible. Lara’s clients feel heard, are more able to make sense of things and gain deeper understanding of themselves.

Integrative Therapist

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Kensington

Language: English

Aaron McGuinness

Aaron offers a psychodynamic approach to psychotherapy which emphasises the unconscious mind and its influence on clients’ behaviour. It often involves exploring past experiences and their impact on present-day thoughts and feelings. Aaron creates a safe and supportive environment where clients can express themselves freely without fear of judgment.

Aaron is open to working with clients who are struggling with various challenges, including anxiety, depression, grief, relationship issues, and identity concerns. He takes a client-centred approach to therapy and will tailor each therapy session to your unique situation, ensuring that you receive the most effective support possible with the focus on your needs, thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Aaron offers both short-term and long-term therapy options to accommodate your individual needs and goals.

The benefits of psychodynamic therapy with Aaron include creating an increased sense of self-awareness, in order to gain a deeper understanding of each client’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, and improve the client’s coping mechanisms and ways of thinking.

By exploring the roots of their difficulties, clients can develop healthier ways to cope with challenges. Understanding the impact of past experiences can help clients improve their relationships with others, foster personal growth and lead a more present and fulfilling life.

Registered Member
United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Location: Kensington

Language: English

Gregory Hamlin

Gregory is a psychodynamic therapist offering both short-term and long -term therapy to individuals.

He appreciates how difficult it can be to seek help and therefore places great importance on creating a warm, empathic and safe space for clients to explore whatever is on their minds. Gregory helps individuals uncover and understand the underlying patterns that shape their lives and relationships. He offers a compassionate and non-judgemental approach to mental health, focusing on the profound connections between past experiences and present behaviour.

Gregory aims to support individuals to address unresolved conflicts, develop healthier ways of relating and gain a deeper sense of self-awareness. He is passionate about fostering a meaningful therapeutic relationship that enables clients to process their thoughts, feelings and experiences.

Gregory works with a range of issues including bereavement, anxiety, depression, relationship issues and domestic abuse, identity and cultural/racial issues, trauma, low self-esteem and anger.

MSc Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English

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.

Integrative Therapist
Head of Therapy Training Programmes

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

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.

Integrative Therapist
EMDR Practitioner
MA Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy
BSc Psychology

Accredited Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Bloomsbury

Language: English

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.

Psychodynamic Therapist

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

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.

Psychodynamic Therapist

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

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

Location: Bloomsbury

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 Counselling and Psychotherapy, 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.

Psychodynamic Therapist
MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Registered Member
British Psychoanalytic Council

Location: Bloomsbury

Language: English, Italian

Asma Gharbi

Asma offers psychodynamic, humanistic and integrative therapies to individuals and couples. She tailors her approach to meet the needs and preferences of her clients. She offers short and long term therapy.

Asma provides a non-judgemental space for her clients, where they can feel safe to explore their feelings, make sense of their experiences and forge deep lasting changes.

Asma has experience working with clients from different backgrounds on various issues such as trauma, abuse, relationships, identity, anxiety, and depression.

Psychodynamic Therapist
Couples and Relationship Therapist

Member, British Psychological Society
Registered Member, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

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Location: Oxford Circus, Kensington

Language: English, French, Arabic

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: Oxford Circus

Language: English

Stamatia Lorentzou

A senior therapist, Stamatia has been with One Therapy London for many years. She holds a doctorate in counselling psychology and is a registered psychotherapist.

Stamatia knows it can be difficult to understand or cope with the strong feelings that life’s experiences can sometimes bring. Talking with an experienced therapist is a way of thinking things through and resolving personal issues. Stamatia helps her clients identify the source of their personal issues, assisting them to gain more insight into their lives and find new perspectives on life’s problems. She offers complete support for whatever problems or concerns her clients want to discuss.

Stamatia’s experience is underpinned by many years of training and ongoing professional development, which keeps her up to date with contemporary issues and new ways of working with her clients.

She sees individuals only, providing short- or longer-term counselling and psychotherapy. She has worked extensively in the NHS, private practice and in low-cost not-for-profit organisations across London. She offers therapy in English and Greek.

Stamatia is often fully booked. If you cannot find a suitable appointment with Stamatia and would like to be added to her waiting list, please email info@onetherapy.london 

Senior Therapist

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Bloomsbury

Language: English, Greek

Andreea Gligore

Andreea has a wonderful ability to put people at ease. Her clients say they feel safe and relaxed with her. Those who were anxious about coming to therapy often comment that she made it much more comfortable than they were expecting.

Her style is integrative-relational. What that means is that she pays particular attention to relationships, as that is where most distress arises, and draws on a variety of therapeutic approaches, adapting her way of working to suit each individual client.

Andreea firmly believes that change cannot be forced or rushed, so she works at your pace. She is empathic and trustworthy, which means her clients are able to freely express their thoughts and feelings. When Andreea supports her clients to look at their situations with honesty and compassion, change invariably follows.

Alongside a wealth of experience in bereavement, Andreea has worked with the full range of issues from anxiety and depression to loneliness, major transitions and low self-esteem. She has a particular interest in shame and attachment issues, and is happy to work short- or long-term.

BA (Hons) Integrative-Relational Counselling

Accredited Member, British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy

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Location: Oxford Circus, Kensington

Language: English

Michelle Taylor

Michelle is an accredited 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.

Accredited 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: Oxford Circus

Language: English

Mita Hiremath

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.

Senior Therapist
MSc in Psychotherapy
Diploma in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy
EMDR Practitioner
Advanced Certificate in Couples Therapy

Accredited Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy
EMDR Association of UK and Ireland

Mita has enjoyed a long career providing psychotherapy in London. Though most of Mita's clients continue in long-term therapy, she is happy to provide shorter-term therapy, too.

Location: Bloomsbury

Language: English

Evan Bates

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

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

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

Psychodynamic Therapist

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English

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.

Psychodynamic Therapist
MSc Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy
BA (Hons) Social Work

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.

Integrative Therapist
MA Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy

Accredited 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

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: Oxford Circus

Language: English

Jayne Levy

Jayne has a gentle and empathic approach, allowing clients to feel comfortable and relaxed as they begin therapy. She offers a non-judgmental and confidential space where clients are safe to express their feelings and thoughts and explore some of the difficulties and challenges they may be experiencing.

As a humanistic integrative therapist, Jayne is guided by her clients’ unique needs and she adapts her therapeutic approach accordingly. This helps support clients to gain a deeper understanding of their past and present experiences and patterns of behaviour.

Jayne believes building a warm and trusting relationship with her clients and working collaboratively is key to a positive experience in therapy, allowing for meaningful and positive change going forward.

Jayne offers both short-term and long-term therapy. She has experience working with a range of issues including relationship difficulties, addiction, bereavement, loss, low self-esteem, depression, anxiety and trauma.

Integrative Therapist

Advanced Diploma in Humanistic Integrative Counselling

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

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.

Humanistic Therapist
BSc Humanistic Counselling
Dip Humanistic Counselling

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Over the past three 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

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.

Integrative Therapist

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English, Greek

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.

Psychodynamic Therapist

Accredited Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English, Lithuanian

Kerry McEwen

A BACP registered member, qualified to an advanced-level in psychodynamic psychotherapy. Kerry offers a confidential and supportive space for both short and long-term therapy.

Kerry believes essential to the success of any therapeutic journey is acceptance and the ability to feel safe in the presence of another. The aim of psychodynamic therapy with Kerry is to support the client in a safe exploration of their past and present experiences.

Kerry’s warm collaborative approach encourages the client to discuss openly their thoughts and feelings, thereby enabling the client to feel heard and accepted perhaps for the first time.

Kerry recognises that painful memories are often buried deeply within the unconscious, frequently manifesting in unhelpful patterns of behaviour and ways of relating to others. Additionally these experiences carry intense feelings and emotions that, if left unaddressed can contribute to the development of physical and emotional ill health.

Drawing upon her experience of working within the mental health and charitable sectors, Kerry offers support to clients experiencing difficulty and difference in the following areas; addiction, abuse, neuro diversity, disability, trauma, anxiety, depression, personality disturbances, relationship difficulties, emotional difficulties, abandonment, loss, guilt and shame.

Psychodynamic Therapist
Advanced Diploma in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Kensington

Language: English

James Eve

James is a psychosexual and relationship therapist who has been in private practice for five years. He works with individuals and couples on sexual and relationship difficulties, understanding that these can be significant causes of distress in one's life. Prior to working in private practice, James worked for the psychosexual team at Croydon University Hospital. He is a registered member of the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists.

James works integratively with his clients, meaning he draws on different counselling approaches depending on what is presented in the room. He has a therapeutic interest in loss of desire in relationships, infidelity and couples in conflict. He aims to create an environment which supports, encourages and challenges his clients and feels it a privilege to be a part of their therapy experience. James also has clinical experience working with depression, anxiety and loss of meaning in one’s life.  He is passionate about mental well-being and talking therapies as a route to greater wellbeing.

Psychosexual & Relationship Therapist (Pg Dip)
Member COSRT

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English

Kira Jolliffe

Kira is an experienced Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counsellor offering a safe place and time for clients to explore their thoughts, feelings, behaviours and experiences.

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

Language: English

Natasha Maidment

Natasha is a person–centred counsellor and psychotherapist who will provide you with a safe, empathetic and non-judgemental space to explore any thoughts or concerns you wish to bring. She works with a range of issues including anxiety, stress, critical thoughts, trauma, relationship issues, identity, depression, loss and low self-esteem.

Natasha offers a collaborative, non-directive approach, viewing each person as a unique individual and tailoring therapy to suit your particular needs. Through a warm, open minded environment, Natasha offers acceptance and understanding with the potential to open up new perspectives, let go of negative cycles and inspire long-lasting change.

Natasha is particularly sensitive to how challenging it may be opening up and talking about personal issues and so her priority is very much ensuring clients feel comfortable and at ease. Clients often comment on feeling as though a weight has been lifted in her presence and on her refreshingly gentle and insightful approach.

BSc (Hons) Person-Centred Pluralistic Counselling (Advanced Practitioner)
Registered member, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English

Patricia Connolly

Patricia sees individuals and couples at One Therapy in Oxford Circus.

Psychotherapy offers a collaborative environment for understanding and challenging long-term patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. Patricia’s focus is on helping clients find new perspectives on themselves and their lives.

Patricia works within a psychodynamic approach. This focuses on early experience to help us gain more awareness of how this shapes who we are in the present. She offers clients a calm and accepting space in which they can start to explore their emotions and attitudes to gain a deeper self–knowledge. Knowing more about who you are - and why you think, feel and behave as you do - can transform your relationship with yourself and others.

Individual therapy: Patricia has worked with clients for many years, helping them to explore a range of diverse issues, including: social anxiety, sexuality, identity, loss, relationship issues and difficulties in making emotional connections.

Couples/Relationship therapy: This kind of therapy usually involves engagement over a shorter period of time, so there is an emphasis on a more psychoeducational approach to help you find ways to communicate more effectively within your relationship. Patricia is certified by COSRT to work with clients who are interested in exploring their relationship within a therapeutic setting.  (College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists, Level 5 training)

Your first consultation with Patricia is an opportunity:

• for you to discuss what you are looking for
• for Patricia to explain how she works
• for you both to decide what the next step is.

Psychodynamic Psychotherapist

Accredited,
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Certified,
College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists

Location: Oxford Circus

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.

Senior Therapist
MA Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy
Awareness in Bereavement Care

Accredited Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Annie has been with us many years, working sensitively and compassionately with her clients.

Location: Oxford Circus

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.

Integrative Couple and Individual Therapist

Accredited Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English

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.

Senior Therapist
Psychosynthesis Therapist
Integrative and Trauma Informed Therapist
Relationship Psychotherapist

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English, Croatian/Serbian

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.

Integrative Therapist
MA in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Postgraduate Certificate in Integrative Psychotherapy

United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Location: Oxford Circus

Language: English, German

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. She works with individuals and also couples wanting to address relationship and communication difficulties.

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.

Integrative Therapist

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

Kate Crawford

Kate began working with One Therapy in 2010 and is Head of Therapy Services at our practices in London and Brighton. She brings to the role a wealth of experience in working with individuals and couples, providing counselling, psychotherapy and psychosexual therapy. She supports our team of therapists, ensures we deliver the highest quality therapy to our clients and manages our recruitment process. Please note that Kate only works with One Therapy in this role and does not see clients.

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Head of Therapy Services One Therapy London & One Therapy Brighton

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

Location: Bloomsbury

Language: English

Dwayne Jackson

Jackson has lived in the USA, Hong Kong and London. He studied psychology in America and integrative psychotherapy in the United Kingdom.

Jackson sees individuals with emotional and behavioural issues which might include problems resulting from childhood trauma, depression, issues around emotional or sexual abuse, issues relating to crime and criminal behaviour, paedophilia/sexual attraction to minors, sexuality issues, gender dysphoria, issues relating to cancer and cancer treatment, pregnancy and infertility issues, 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. He opened One Therapy Brighton in 2012.

Senior Therapist
Founder and Director

Registered Member
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Jackson provides both long- and short-term therapy.

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

Location: Bloomsbury

Language: English