Psychoanalytic Counselling in London

I work with patients with long-standing emotional difficulties. These may be affecting their ability to thrive in their life - commonly affecting relationships with friends, colleagues and/or intimate/romantic/sexual relationships. There may be a range of other symptoms, such as difficulties in the relationship with oneself, and unhealthy patterns of relationships or self-sabotage.

If you are feeling anxious or sad, frustrated or just stuck, it helps to talk - but it can be hard to share with those closest to us.  Psychotherapy, with an attentive listener, in a confidential environment, offers a unique space to open up a different view - somewhere you can examine your life and relationships both past and present, think about what shaped you, what is going on now and what you want.

​Sometimes life can hurl difficulties our way and leaving us feeling conflicted, confused and depleted and at other times our thoughts and feelings may seem out of balance to the event that triggered them or do not seem to begin from anything specific at all. I work with you in a confidential space, where you can speak freely about what is troubling you, providing you with support and security, such that you no longer have to struggle on by yourself. My areas of expertise lie in treating anxiety, depression, traumata, loss and fertility concerns.

My goal is to provide you with a safe, confidential, non-judgemental space in which you can open up and really talk about what's on your mind. With the help of therapy, we can work through the distressing and overwhelming feelings of depression, trauma, anxiety, worry, stress, and any other difficulties you might be experiencing.

…. when things are too much or too little and you need someone who will listen without judging you. I aim to facilitate a space where you can feel heard, understood, freely talk about what is on your mind. My work focuses on understanding your inner world and helping you to get to know yourself in a safe, confidential space for a more positive perspective in life, more gratifying relationships, more insight into yourself, to work more deeply on your past and present difficulties. You might be wanting to offload and unburden yourself from the pressing issues, stressful life events, your worries or feeling stuck.

I am an attachment- based UKCP registered psychoanalytic psychotherapist with 35 years of experience and also an Energy Psychotherapist. The ethos of my work and orientation is described on my website, www.theflamecentre.co.uk. I specialise in working with trauma and teach other psychotherapists new methods which gently release traumatic stress from the body. My book "Energy, Soul Connecting and Awakening Consciousness" (published March 2023 Karnac) describes how I work. I also run spiritual retreats in Norfolk. Many clients come to me to help resolve issues of personal crisis - and the way I work focuses on healing and wholeness

I offer a service to children, adolescents, and young adults to allow them to begin to understand and explore how their past experiences have impacted on their lives, to be able to regulate their emotions and behaviours in order to cope with life’s challenges. Often the problems experienced are related to or are the result of past traumas or even just finding it hard to cope with life generally with all its pressures and difficulties. I can also see families and parents who can sometimes struggle to understand the problems facing them as a family unit. I am offering a safe and non-judgemental space, where we can begin to understand

I am a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist who works in the London Victoria area. My training underlines my belief that sometimes our experiences can leave us feeling insecure or lacking in confidence, making it difficult to form or sustain healthy relationships or cope with everyday life. Talking this through with a psychotherapist can help you to understand and value yourself more. It is not the job of a psychotherapist to tell you what to do but to offer you different perspectives and a different experience of relating.

If you have suffered trauma in your earlier life, or are having difficulty coping with day to day life, due to feelings of depression and or anxiety and want to explore what is underneath these problems and what may have contributed in the past to keeping them going and are keen to better understand the hidden parts of yourself then I feel I could be of help to you. If you feel that the very earliest relationships in your life, going right back to being an infant have been damaged in some way and have created barriers for you in forming new relationships, then I think we will have space and time to work together on these.

Are you struggling with your sense of self, your relationships and how you relate to others? Do you feel stuck in unhelpful life patterns and something gets in the way of you fulfilling your potential ? Psychotherapy can help identify unhelpful patterns in relationships and how unconscious dynamics can be rooted in the past. My approach would be to work with you to develop more understanding of underlying emotional conflicts and examine new ways of relating in your personal and professional life

As an experienced Clinical Psychotherapist, I provide counselling to adults and couples. I describe myself as an Integrative Clinical Psychotherapist; My experience and training have enabled me to develop expertise in various treatment models which enables me to draw on different approaches and techniques that suit the person you are and the issues that you are presented with. I am trained in Psychodynamic, Existential and Person-Centred therapies. My theoretical approach is predominantly informed by psychoanalytic /psychodynamic therapy, which explores how the unconscious mind influences thoughts and behaviours.

My academic and clinical training affiliations are with the Psychoanalysis Unit of the University College London (UCL), the WPF Therapy, and the University of Manchester. I am a member of the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the NHS. I hold an updated DBS Enhanced Certificate for work with adults and children. "See my website www.shirinbiria.com for more details"

I have worked for over 20 years as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. My background and influence has come from working in a therapeutic/Crisis Centre; a residential community setting, where I worked as a Team Leader providing psychotherapy to residents struggling with enduring and complex mental health issues. I have worked as a Clinical Coordinator for one of the Arbours’ therapeutic communities. I have supervised trainee psychotherapists in a number of charity organisations including the Highgate Counselling Centre, the Camden, City and Islington Westminster Bereavement Service.

My approach is psychoanalytic , with an emphasis on the meaningful relationship between the patient and the analyst, who curiously engage with the painful problem, symptom, or difficult behaviour. Both client and therapist work together to make valuable improvements to the client’s emotional world, within a stable, consistent setting.

I am a psychotherapist accredited UKCP experienced at treating emotional and psychological issues. Until 2021 I divided my time between private practice and the NHS, where I was Principal Psychotherapist for a large NHS Trust. Now in full time private practice I have extensive experience of assessing and treating people from a variety of backgrounds whose problems range from severe and complex to more easily treatable problems including: Self-esteem, personal development, depression, anxiety, addictions, self-harm, personality problems and family and relationship concerns.

I am a psychologist and registered psychotherapist. I work with a psychoanalytical approach also known as talking therapy. People come to Therapy for various reasons such as: anxiety, stress, depression, sadness, procrastinations, panic attacks or other issues. Perhaps you are struggling understanding why you feel the way you do. You may wish to explore how you got where you are now in order to find your own solutions.