Trauma Focused Counselling in London

Do you feel stuck in patterns you can’t break out of? Are you feeling overwhelmed, anxious or just unhappy? With many years of experience in helping people to overcome negative patterns and emotional difficulties, I can help you to find a new way of relating to yourself and others. I want to help you to get your life back. The approach I use is evidence based and I will tailor the therapy to address the particular areas you need help with. Together we will think about what you are finding difficult, what your strengths are and how we can work together to help you progress towards recovery and to a richer and more fulfilling life.

Dr Keren Smith has worked for the NHS at South London and Maudsley Foundation Trust since 2009 where she and her colleagues set up the pioneering National and Specialist Dialectical Behaviour Therapy service for adolescents. Keren has seen clients independently since 2012 and works with both adults and adolescents with a wide range of difficulties. She has a particular interest in working with people with a history of trauma and symptoms associated with PTSD and CPTSD; she has completed further training in specialist trauma focused models including EMDR and DBT-PE.

As a qualified Clinical Psychologist with experience working with a range of difficulties, I provide a compassionate, safe, and non-judgemental space for you to explore these issues. I utilise Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), but draw on a number of approaches, including Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), in order to provide a therapeutic space which is individualised to your specific needs. I have experience working with a number of difficulties, including, but not limited to, depression, anxiety, panic, low self-esteem, and stress.

Life can throw many challenges at us and affect us in many different ways. These might include being troubled by painful memories from difficult past experiences, struggling in relationships, caught in cycles of worry and anxiety or low mood, or constantly feeling not good enough. These experiences can make it feel difficult to cope and might leave you feeling unmotivated, unfulfilled, or like you are living a life directed by worry and fear rather than your values. I am here to provide a safe, compassionate and non-judgemental space to explore these difficulties and support you to navigate a way out of them.

I specialise in helping people overcome the adverse effects of workplace stress and trauma. I support those in high risk occupations exposed to traumatic events and those exposed to toxic/traumatic workplace cultures (e.g. bullying, sexual or racial harassment, manager/team conflict, disciplinary investigations). You may be feeling overwhelmed, burnt out, powerless, re-experiencing upsetting memories, notice personality changes, feel you are not the strong person you used to be, feel excluded or feel the need to hide part of your identity. You may be thinking of leaving, signed off sick or struggling alone.

I am a skilled and experienced Chartered and Counselling Psychologist specialising in treating a variety of problems, with particular specialism and interest in working with depression, anxiety, survivors of trauma and victims of human trafficking. I am compassionate and sensitive to your needs and I am happy to see people individually and/or with partners/family to fit your therapeutic goals. My background as a mixed race Muslim female has influenced my position as an anti-oppressive and intersectional psychologist

As a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, I can integrate a range of treatment models to meet your specific needs. I provide trauma-focused & relational therapies for emotional difficulties and self-sabotaging behaviours. Are you getting easily triggered or stuck in similar relationship life traps? Do you feel troubled by feelings of anxiety, irritability, regret or shame? Are you oscillating between lofty highs, where your goals are creative and expansive, and periods of deflating apathy, where you become consumed with negativity and self-doubt. Past relational trauma can be revisited unexpectedly and erupt in these ways.

It takes a lot of courage to accept that we are struggling and to take the first steps to seeking support. You are not alone and I am here to help. As a psychologist with wide ranging experience, I am trained in multiple approaches which help to find the right fit for those seeking support and to make therapy a meaningful endeavour. I am trained across the life span so can provide talking therapy for children, teens, adults and those who may have retired. I can also work individually, with couples or groups and with those who may have additional needs.

I have worked extensively with clients with Post Traumatic Stress (PTSD) related difficulties, including difficulties with disturbed sleep, high levels of anxiety and re-experiencing of past traumatic events (nightmares, visual flashbacks, emotional/bodily remembering). I work with a focus on the origins of distress rather than here and now 'symptoms' to enable more lasting change.

I provide a confidential, safe space online, or in north London. I'll work with you to help rethink existing patterns of behaviour, improve your self-esteem, enhance self-acceptance and have more fruitful relationships with the significant other people in your life. I have a particular focus on anxiety, trauma and PTSD, sexuality/identity issues. I am experienced in working with clients from South Asian or other cultural backgrounds.

I am a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist with a background in specialist NHS psychological treatment. I am the Mental Health Lead for the Cambridge Medical Academy (Cambridge University), where I train a global network of 800+ doctors and nurses in mental health. My research on improving access to mental health has been published internationally. I sit on a number of international Boards where I advise on mental health service design and delivery. I lecture at Southampton University teaching the Phd and MSc Psychology students. I provide in depth assessment and treatment for a range of psychological and emotional problems.

I have 13 years of experience working as a Trauma Therapist. Initially, I worked within the NHS and treated trauma alongside PTSD responses to birth as a midwife and trauma therapist. My private practice developed more broadly, working with anxiety, depression, PTSD, dissociation and relationship stresses in any of life's circumstances. I am happy to work with almost any general life issue. Grief, sexual or other abuse, rape, and lifelong bullying are frequent concerns in therapy, and couple therapy is of particular interest. I use EMDR, Rewind, Trauma-focused CBT in a person-centred approach and work with clients online

Sometimes you can feel like you’re surviving rather than living. You find yourself sad, anxious or stuck in old patterns, and it’s impacting your life, relationships or work. Therapy can help you heal and find your joy, purpose and nurturing relationships. I provide a safe space for you where we collaboratively work towards your healing. My therapy is tailored to your unique situation, working in either a short or long-term capacity depending on your needs. Bringing a warmth to the therapeutic relationship, together we can explore what is weighing on you, set goals and work together to find a way through, towards living again.

The Fitzrovia Psychology Clinic is an award-winning, independent private practice providing psychological help and services across London and Surrey. Our clinicians are hand-selected, highly skilled clinical and counselling psychologists, who have established academic backgrounds and NHS careers, in addition to their private work. We provide interventions for a wide variety of mental health conditions and difficulties including stress, anxiety, depression, personality disorders and eating disorders, all of which can have a hugely debilitating effect on our lives and the lives of people around us.

It can be difficult when you are faced with an issue that seems daunting. We all have seasons in our lives when we don't know which decision to make, how to get past a change or loss or we just want to change the way the way things are right now. I'm here to support and help you manage whatever it is that is presenting a difficulty. As an integrative counsellor, I work with adults across a range of issues using different therapeutic approaches to suit each personality and individual need. ​ You are the expert of your life so we will move at your pace going however fast or slow you want to, I'm here to listen and support you.

I am a couple and family therapist, body dramatherapist, yoga teacher and clinical supervisor, with more than 30years' experience in mental health settings and just under 30 years in private practice. I am a warm, empathic therapist and highly value my relationship with all my clients. I go on an exsploratory journey with my clients, with them leading the way as together we make meaning and sense of difficulties and worries and even at times have fun along the way. At some point the therapy stops at an agreed moment by the client when they feel they have reached a more comfortable place in their life and in their relationships.

I use existential therapy in session with my clients, as this approach sees each client as someone with their own unique experiences, and therefore their own unique difficulties. I seek to obtain an understanding of each client's world enabling us to then work together towards making changes which are specifically tailored to you and which help you to find a way towards a better future. I am an integrative therapist and so am also trained in humanistic person-centred, psychodynamic and cognitive behavioural therapies which add to my ability to understand people's differing experiences and tailor the work to each individual.

As a doctor of psychology, I provide a safe space where you can explore what is troubling you and start to make sense of your thoughts and feelings. I offer short-term and long-term therapy, using psychological models with a proven track record, to address anxiety, low mood, relationship issues, workplace stresses, addictions, trauma and grief. Ultimately, our goal may be for you to become your own therapist. After all, you know the client better than anyone.

My integrative training and years of experience enables me to draw on a range of psychological therapies in my work with children, adults, couples and families. I work with a range of difficulties including depressions, anxiety, trauma and relationship difficulties.

Have you been feeling blue, low on energy, mood swings, irritability and anxiety? Are there things you would like to talk about in confidence to a trustworthy and experienced professional? Have you reached a point in your life where you know you need to make significant changes? Mental health issues can hit anyone, regardless of socio-economic standing, ethnicity, family history and genetics. If you have kept silent and not spoken up about things that have caused you pain, due to stigma from cultural upbringing, social background and intergenerational family trauma, now is the time to break free. You deserve to be heard.