Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum Counselling in London
I have experience working in the perinatal period supporting to be and new parents with the transition to parenthood.
I am an OCD and related disorders specialist. I have led a highly specialist national NHS service and have worked as a therapist in the NHS for over 20 years. I offer evidence based therapy to treat disorders and psychological difficulties including PTSD, general anxiety, phobias, low self esteem, eating disorders, depression and perfectionism. My clients often report feeling stuck in a pattern of thinking and behaviour and want to make real and lasting change. My approach focuses on identifying and working through what is maintaining the difficulties and helps clients to gain the tools to keep them-self well once therapy has ended.
I have experience working in the perinatal period supporting to be and new parents with the transition to parenthood.
I am an OCD and related disorders specialist. I have led a highly specialist national NHS service and have worked as a therapist in the NHS for over 20 years. I offer evidence based therapy to treat disorders and psychological difficulties including PTSD, general anxiety, phobias, low self esteem, eating disorders, depression and perfectionism. My clients often report feeling stuck in a pattern of thinking and behaviour and want to make real and lasting change. My approach focuses on identifying and working through what is maintaining the difficulties and helps clients to gain the tools to keep them-self well once therapy has ended.
Supporting women through pregnancy, postpartum recovery, identity shifts, and the emotional demands of motherhood.
As a trained Integrative Counsellor, I offer a personalised approach tailored to each client’s needs. Drawing from CBT, person-centred, psychodynamic, attachment-based, and trauma-informed approaches, I support women navigating motherhood, burnout, anxiety, identity shifts, and emotional overwhelm.
Supporting women through pregnancy, postpartum recovery, identity shifts, and the emotional demands of motherhood.
As a trained Integrative Counsellor, I offer a personalised approach tailored to each client’s needs. Drawing from CBT, person-centred, psychodynamic, attachment-based, and trauma-informed approaches, I support women navigating motherhood, burnout, anxiety, identity shifts, and emotional overwhelm.
Feeling overwhelmed, grieving, facing changes in identity, or navigating relationship struggles. Maybe you're a parent feeling stretched, a young person looking for direction, or someone carrying the emotional weight of menopause or infant loss. Whatever you’re holding, I offer a warm, compassionate space where you can feel safe, heard, and supported. Together, we can gently explore your experiences and work towards more balance, connection, and inner strength.
Feeling overwhelmed, grieving, facing changes in identity, or navigating relationship struggles. Maybe you're a parent feeling stretched, a young person looking for direction, or someone carrying the emotional weight of menopause or infant loss. Whatever you’re holding, I offer a warm, compassionate space where you can feel safe, heard, and supported. Together, we can gently explore your experiences and work towards more balance, connection, and inner strength.
I have a wealth of experience and have worked within the NHS and in Private Practice. I offer therapeutic work within a clinic setting to infants, children, adolescents, young people, parents and couples. I supervise and offer consultation to other professionals.
I have a wealth of experience and have worked within the NHS and in Private Practice. I offer therapeutic work within a clinic setting to infants, children, adolescents, young people, parents and couples. I supervise and offer consultation to other professionals.
I specialise in working therapeutically with eating disorders, baby loss, miscarriage, infertility and rainbow babies.
Do others view you as a calm river with a constant, steady flow? Does this stop you from telling them about the disarming undercurrent that pulls you in all directions? Perhaps you feel like you need to maintain the outward appearance of being someone who ‘has it all’ when inwardly you are scared that you aren’t enough. Appearing perfect can be exhausting, it can also be isolating and erode our true sense of self. I am here so that you can rest your mask down for a while. By tapping into and meeting the needs of your inner self you will find that you feel resourced enough to fortify your relationships with others.
I specialise in working therapeutically with eating disorders, baby loss, miscarriage, infertility and rainbow babies.
Do others view you as a calm river with a constant, steady flow? Does this stop you from telling them about the disarming undercurrent that pulls you in all directions? Perhaps you feel like you need to maintain the outward appearance of being someone who ‘has it all’ when inwardly you are scared that you aren’t enough. Appearing perfect can be exhausting, it can also be isolating and erode our true sense of self. I am here so that you can rest your mask down for a while. By tapping into and meeting the needs of your inner self you will find that you feel resourced enough to fortify your relationships with others.
I offer CBT therapy sessions and counselling on a short-term or open-ended basis. My aim is to create a warm, supportive and empathic space where people can feel safe, be fully themselves and talk freely about their concerns without fear of being judged.
I offer CBT therapy sessions and counselling on a short-term or open-ended basis. My aim is to create a warm, supportive and empathic space where people can feel safe, be fully themselves and talk freely about their concerns without fear of being judged.
If you are trying to conceive, going through IVF, grieving a pregnancy loss, recovering from a birth that did not go the way you hoped, or quietly wondering where you have gone since becoming a parent, you are in the right place.
My work covers the whole journey: deciding whether you want a baby, fertility challenges and the emotional weight of IVF and IUI, miscarriage and baby loss, anxiety and low mood in pregnancy, fear of birth, birth trauma, postnatal anxiety and depression, intrusive thoughts, postpartum rage, and the identity shift of matrescence.
If you are trying to conceive, going through IVF, grieving a pregnancy loss, recovering from a birth that did not go the way you hoped, or quietly wondering where you have gone since becoming a parent, you are in the right place.
My work covers the whole journey: deciding whether you want a baby, fertility challenges and the emotional weight of IVF and IUI, miscarriage and baby loss, anxiety and low mood in pregnancy, fear of birth, birth trauma, postnatal anxiety and depression, intrusive thoughts, postpartum rage, and the identity shift of matrescence.
Self-esteem, confidence, body image, pregnancy and parenthood, and family conflict.
I set up my practice to reach out to individuals who struggle to feel at home within themselves, or in their communities. I specialise in working with individuals who struggle with identity issues due to factors of race, religion, politics, culture or language; individuals who feel like they don’t belong, and individuals who have complicated relationships with their bodies. I offer therapy in Arabic and English.
Self-esteem, confidence, body image, pregnancy and parenthood, and family conflict.
I set up my practice to reach out to individuals who struggle to feel at home within themselves, or in their communities. I specialise in working with individuals who struggle with identity issues due to factors of race, religion, politics, culture or language; individuals who feel like they don’t belong, and individuals who have complicated relationships with their bodies. I offer therapy in Arabic and English.
I am a BPS-Chartered Clinical Psychologist working in private practice and the NHS. I also hold an Honorary Teaching Fellow at University College London and contribute to the teaching and training of psychologists. I am passionate about providing effective psychological therapy for each and every client that I work with. My approach is honest and open and I treat all clients with warmth and compassion. I stay up to date with the most recent psychological research and ensure that the services I offer are evidence based.
I am a BPS-Chartered Clinical Psychologist working in private practice and the NHS. I also hold an Honorary Teaching Fellow at University College London and contribute to the teaching and training of psychologists. I am passionate about providing effective psychological therapy for each and every client that I work with. My approach is honest and open and I treat all clients with warmth and compassion. I stay up to date with the most recent psychological research and ensure that the services I offer are evidence based.
I offer a warm, thoughtful space to explore the challenges of pregnancy, early motherhood, and parenthood.
Many of the parents I work with are deeply shocked by how difficult the transition to parenthood can be. You might be feeling intensely anxious, constantly on edge, or disconnected from the person you used to be before your baby or toddler arrived. Couples I work with often feel a growing distance, finding it hard to connect or find time together. Whether you are navigating the complex shift from one child to two, struggling with raw toddler rages, or dealing with a silent sense of shame that you've somehow 'failed' before you've even got started, please know you are not alone.
I offer a warm, thoughtful space to explore the challenges of pregnancy, early motherhood, and parenthood.
Many of the parents I work with are deeply shocked by how difficult the transition to parenthood can be. You might be feeling intensely anxious, constantly on edge, or disconnected from the person you used to be before your baby or toddler arrived. Couples I work with often feel a growing distance, finding it hard to connect or find time together. Whether you are navigating the complex shift from one child to two, struggling with raw toddler rages, or dealing with a silent sense of shame that you've somehow 'failed' before you've even got started, please know you are not alone.
Hello, I am Adriana, an MBACP qualified counsellor and psychotherapist working in Chiswick and Kensington, and Online, seeing individuals and couples. I have worked with individuals suffering from anxiety, stress, panic attacks, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), learning disabilities, HIV, agoraphobia, bereavement & loss, relationship difficulties, suicide, addiction, eating disorders, sleep disorders, sexual abuse, cancer, obsessional behaviour, self-harm, amongst others. I have experience in working with life transitions such as young adulthood, motherhood, midlife and loss.
Hello, I am Adriana, an MBACP qualified counsellor and psychotherapist working in Chiswick and Kensington, and Online, seeing individuals and couples. I have worked with individuals suffering from anxiety, stress, panic attacks, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), learning disabilities, HIV, agoraphobia, bereavement & loss, relationship difficulties, suicide, addiction, eating disorders, sleep disorders, sexual abuse, cancer, obsessional behaviour, self-harm, amongst others. I have experience in working with life transitions such as young adulthood, motherhood, midlife and loss.
I accompany individuals before, during, and after pregnancy.
I am Professor Michael Atar, a psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapist. I work with families, parents, carers, and their children, drawing on my expertise from various life experiences such as my medical background, working as a paediatric dentist for over 25 years, and being a father of a large family with children of various ages. Whilst I do adopt a psychoanalytic observational stance, I don’t approach therapy from the position of “expert”. My belief in therapy focuses on awareness, understanding, and gentle support. As the word therapy suggests facilitating and serving, my work emphasises a collaborative experience.
I accompany individuals before, during, and after pregnancy.
I am Professor Michael Atar, a psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapist. I work with families, parents, carers, and their children, drawing on my expertise from various life experiences such as my medical background, working as a paediatric dentist for over 25 years, and being a father of a large family with children of various ages. Whilst I do adopt a psychoanalytic observational stance, I don’t approach therapy from the position of “expert”. My belief in therapy focuses on awareness, understanding, and gentle support. As the word therapy suggests facilitating and serving, my work emphasises a collaborative experience.
My approach to therapy is existential-phenomenological, but my training is integrative and I draw on psychodynamic and person-centred models of therapy as well as CBT whenever I feel they may be helpful to my clients. I gained my MA in Psychotherapy at Regent’s University’s School of Psychotherapy & Counselling Psychology in London where I wrote a dissertation on the experience of regret as a catalyst for change. I have and Advanced Diploma in Existential Psychotherapy and existential philosophy tends to influence the way I look at the world. I am bilingual and practice in English and Italian.
My approach to therapy is existential-phenomenological, but my training is integrative and I draw on psychodynamic and person-centred models of therapy as well as CBT whenever I feel they may be helpful to my clients. I gained my MA in Psychotherapy at Regent’s University’s School of Psychotherapy & Counselling Psychology in London where I wrote a dissertation on the experience of regret as a catalyst for change. I have and Advanced Diploma in Existential Psychotherapy and existential philosophy tends to influence the way I look at the world. I am bilingual and practice in English and Italian.
I have special interest in the Antenatal/ Perinatal period and Long Term Physical illnesses.
What is bringing you to therapy? Why now? My aim is to offer a safe and confidential space where we can think together about what is troubling you, explore the underlying reasons of your distress and consider healthier ways of being. Some difficulties may be long standing and would benefit from longer term therapy offering a slower pace but deeper understanding. Other difficulties might require a brief but targeted approach focusing primarily on the 'here and now' self management and support. Either way, it all starts with a conversation.
I have special interest in the Antenatal/ Perinatal period and Long Term Physical illnesses.
What is bringing you to therapy? Why now? My aim is to offer a safe and confidential space where we can think together about what is troubling you, explore the underlying reasons of your distress and consider healthier ways of being. Some difficulties may be long standing and would benefit from longer term therapy offering a slower pace but deeper understanding. Other difficulties might require a brief but targeted approach focusing primarily on the 'here and now' self management and support. Either way, it all starts with a conversation.
I have a particular focus on perinatal mental health, supporting individuals through experiences such as pregnancy-related challenges, birth trauma, and perinatal loss.
Feeling lost? Alone? Overwhelmed? Low or anxious? Do you want to explore something from your past or focus on something specific in your here and now? Whatever your reason for coming here today, I provide a safe and secure, non judgmental and caring space to speak freely and benefit from an experienced therapist to help you find your way, a new perspective or simply someone to listen. I am able to offer short term sessions or longer term therapy depending on your needs. I offer a private, safe, clean and comfortable environment for us to work through what you bring to therapy. Phone and Video sessions also available
I have a particular focus on perinatal mental health, supporting individuals through experiences such as pregnancy-related challenges, birth trauma, and perinatal loss.
Feeling lost? Alone? Overwhelmed? Low or anxious? Do you want to explore something from your past or focus on something specific in your here and now? Whatever your reason for coming here today, I provide a safe and secure, non judgmental and caring space to speak freely and benefit from an experienced therapist to help you find your way, a new perspective or simply someone to listen. I am able to offer short term sessions or longer term therapy depending on your needs. I offer a private, safe, clean and comfortable environment for us to work through what you bring to therapy. Phone and Video sessions also available
Elizabeth specialises in treating women's issues including eating disorders/body image concerns, anxiety and depression, and perinatal issues.
Elizabeth graduated from Columbia University's counseling program and in addition to her experience treating eating disorders, she has significant experience with trauma, grief, developmental issues, and severe mental illness. She treats eating disorder and anxiety patients at London's Nightingale Hospital, as well as privately/remotely.
Elizabeth specialises in treating women's issues including eating disorders/body image concerns, anxiety and depression, and perinatal issues.
Elizabeth graduated from Columbia University's counseling program and in addition to her experience treating eating disorders, she has significant experience with trauma, grief, developmental issues, and severe mental illness. She treats eating disorder and anxiety patients at London's Nightingale Hospital, as well as privately/remotely.
I have a particular interest in working with anxiety (including OCD, social anxiety and GAD), creatives and performers navigating the pressures of their industry, women in the perinatal period esp
I am a HCPC registered psychotherapist with 10 years experience of working with adults, young people and groups. I work with a psychodynamic, creative approach and offer you a space that is non-judgemental, empathic and safe.
Clients come to therapy with me for many and varied reasons: sometimes for support to address a specific mental health problem, such as anxiety or low mood; sometimes because of a dilemma or difficult experience: the end of a relationship, a bereavement, becoming a parent, struggling at work; sometimes for support with relationship or attachment issues.
I have a particular interest in working with anxiety (including OCD, social anxiety and GAD), creatives and performers navigating the pressures of their industry, women in the perinatal period esp
I am a HCPC registered psychotherapist with 10 years experience of working with adults, young people and groups. I work with a psychodynamic, creative approach and offer you a space that is non-judgemental, empathic and safe.
Clients come to therapy with me for many and varied reasons: sometimes for support to address a specific mental health problem, such as anxiety or low mood; sometimes because of a dilemma or difficult experience: the end of a relationship, a bereavement, becoming a parent, struggling at work; sometimes for support with relationship or attachment issues.
We work with a variety of relationship issues including childhood trauma, abuse, infertility, miscarriage, bereavement, adjusting to parenthood, codependency, divorce and separation, sex and desire, neurodiversity, the aftermath of an affair and conflict.
We would like to support you to develop ways of coping, and relating, that fit with your values, promote increased self-worth and improve the quality of your relationships. You may choose to do this work with us alone or with your partner(s) or family members. As Clinical psychologists we tailor our approach to suit your needs.
We work with a variety of relationship issues including childhood trauma, abuse, infertility, miscarriage, bereavement, adjusting to parenthood, codependency, divorce and separation, sex and desire, neurodiversity, the aftermath of an affair and conflict.
We would like to support you to develop ways of coping, and relating, that fit with your values, promote increased self-worth and improve the quality of your relationships. You may choose to do this work with us alone or with your partner(s) or family members. As Clinical psychologists we tailor our approach to suit your needs.
As part of my practice, I specialize in perinatal support for individuals and couples who are navigating the challenges of pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenthood.
I am an integrative and humanistic psychotherapist who believes in providing compassionate and personalized care to each of my clients. I understand that each person has a unique set of experiences and challenges, and I strive to create a safe and non-judgmental space where they can explore their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
As part of my practice, I specialize in perinatal support for individuals and couples who are navigating the challenges of pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenthood.
I am an integrative and humanistic psychotherapist who believes in providing compassionate and personalized care to each of my clients. I understand that each person has a unique set of experiences and challenges, and I strive to create a safe and non-judgmental space where they can explore their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
I am passionate about supporting clients through any period relating to parenthood, from (in)fertility, pregnancy, birth (including birth prep as well as birth trauma), postnatal depression and any issues relating to parenting.
I am passionate about empowering clients to develop or strengthen their own sense of agency in the world, so that they feel in control. In order to do this, I work collaboratively with clients rather than acting as an expert. I walk alongside my clients in their therapeutic journey, rather than taking the lead and instructing which can at times feel disempowering. Whilst I use my knowledge and expertise to help clients consider new ways of viewing the world and offer guidance on ways they may consider changing their behaviours to better suit their needs, I do not act as an "expert" as I believe each person knows themselves best.
I am passionate about supporting clients through any period relating to parenthood, from (in)fertility, pregnancy, birth (including birth prep as well as birth trauma), postnatal depression and any issues relating to parenting.
I am passionate about empowering clients to develop or strengthen their own sense of agency in the world, so that they feel in control. In order to do this, I work collaboratively with clients rather than acting as an expert. I walk alongside my clients in their therapeutic journey, rather than taking the lead and instructing which can at times feel disempowering. Whilst I use my knowledge and expertise to help clients consider new ways of viewing the world and offer guidance on ways they may consider changing their behaviours to better suit their needs, I do not act as an "expert" as I believe each person knows themselves best.
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Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum Counsellors
What are the most effective ways to address pregnancy, prenatal, and postpartum concerns?
The most effective way to address pregnancy, prenatal, and postpartum concerns is by finding a therapist who has prior experience helping other patients overcome the challenge being faced. For example, a marriage and family therapist may have experience helping couples adjust to their new relationship dynamic. An anxiety specialist may have experience helping with phobias or illness anxiety related to the child’s health. A depression specialist may have experience treating postpartum depression.
When should I seek treatment for prenatal or postpartum concerns?
Pregnancy and the postpartum period involve intense physical and mental changes; a degree of upset and instability is normal. However, if these changes impair daily functioning, it may be time to seek help. This distinction is pertinent for postpartum depression: A period of teariness, irritability, and distress is difficult but normal in the one to two weeks after childbirth (sometimes called the “baby blues.”) But if feelings of sadness and hopelessness persist beyond that period, the person should seek treatment.
How do I manage worries during pregnancy or the postnatal period?
A therapist can help patients develop the tools they need to manage anxieties during or after pregnancy. Cognitive behavioural therapy can help people identify and reframe harmful patterns of thought, and change their behaviours. Other techniques and skills can allow people to develop acceptance, psychological flexibility, self-compassion, communication skills, and more.