Meet our Team

At The Awareness Centre, we’re proud to have a highly committed and dedicated team who bring their expertise and passion for mental health and wellbeing to their roles. Our founder and managing director, Michaela McCarthy, has years of experience within the counselling and psychotherapy field. She works with her team to develop The Awareness Centre’s thriving therapeutic and training community.

Clinical Services
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Our Director

Michaela McCarthy

Managing Director

Michaela McCarthy is a qualified counsellor, psychotherapist, psychosexual & relationship therapist, clinical supervisor and tutor with over 25 years’ experience in the mental health field. She founded The Awareness Centre in 2005, offering a confidential counselling and psychotherapy service in south London.

Michaela is passionate about sharing her experience and knowledge, and that energy led to her opening The Awareness Centre Training School in 2020. She is committed to creating a safe environment for her team, for therapists and for clients to engage and develop professional relationships. She works in private practice in Wimpole Street, Marylebone and is senior accredited with the BACP.

Reception Team

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Charnell Kennedy – Receptionist

Renatta Andrews

Renatta Andrews – Receptionist

Elizabeth Akindutire

Elizabeth Akindutire – Receptionist

Joy Zheng

Joy Zheng – Receptionist

Low Cost and Private Therapy Team

Martina Moh

Martina Moh – Service Lead

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Naaklokai Okai – Service Lead

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Rushna Patel – Senior Counselling Co-ordinator

Seda Albay

Seda Albay – Counselling Manager

NHS Team

Amy Shapre

Amy Sharpe – NHS Team Leader Wandsworth

Anders Carvalho the team

Anders Carvalho – NHS Team Leader Lambeth

Gail Walker

Gail Walker – Head of Counselling

Gunilla Rukavina

Gunilla Rukavina – NHS Team Leader Wandsworth

Hilton Da Silva

Hilton Silva – Counselling Services Coordinator – Wandsworth & Sutton

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Matthew Scantlebury – Counselling Services Coordinator – Lambeth

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Minoo Briscoe – NHS Team Leader Sutton

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Oriana Scalzulli – NHS Team Leader Lambeth

Tom Underwood

Tom Underwood – NHS Team Leader Wandsworth

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Venaifa D’costa – NHS Team Leader Lambeth

Violet Karamagi

Violet Karamagi – Counselling Services Manager – NHS Lambeth

Clinical Supervisors

Denise Sims

Denise Sims – Clinical Supervisor

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Ewa Romanowska – Clinical Supervisor

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Farzana Numan – Clinical Supervisor

Helen Sutton

Helen Sutton – Clinical Supervisor

Jo Small

Jo Small – Clinical Supervisor

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Michelle Baker – Clinical Supervisor

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Pamela Thompson – Clinical Supervisor

Sam Hughes

Sam Hughes – Clinical Supervisor

Finance Department

Lesley Brown

Lesley Brown – Financial Controller

Samantha Austin

Samantha Austin – Finance Manager

Rachel Jackson

Rachel Jackson – Finance Administrator

Our qualified private counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists are all either registered, accredited with one or more of the following professional bodies. Our trainee therapists hold a student membership.

Book an appointment with a private therapist at one of our London centres