Anger Management Therapy

What is Anger Management?

Is anger the first thing you feel in response to far too many situations? Losing your temper at the tiniest provocation? Are angry feelings beginning to take over your life? Whether you’ve suddenly noticed that anger is your default position – or whether you’ve had it pointed out by well-meaning family and friends – you may begin to wonder how to take stock, begin to understand why you’re so angry, and work to take control of those overwhelming rages. That’s exactly the point when anger management therapy can help.

While rational anger affects us all at some point, it often stays within a healthy range of expression. Irrational anger and rage can sometimes erupt and spill out in inappropriate and destructive ways. The after-effects of intense and uncontrolled anger can affect you both physically and psychologically. Anger that goes unchecked can run riot with your wellbeing. Physically, anger can cause all sorts of heart and digestive problems, as the risks from high blood pressure storm your system. Emotionally, the effects of an angry outburst can provoke anxiety, shame, more rage, possible depression, abuse, self-harm and a cycle of sheer exhaustion. Then it all starts again the next day with the next provocation! It can feel like you’re stuck in a loop you can’t get out of.

Signs that you need anger management therapy:

You’re angry and frustrated at work, becoming irritable with clients and colleagues, and your boss has asked you to tone it down.
You’re angry and rageful within a romantic relationship because your partner isn’t doing what you want, when, how and how often you want it. Taken to extremes, anger towards a partner can lead to a destructive pattern of emotional, verbal and physical abuse.
You lose your temper with your children after the second time of asking them to do something. You don’t mean to, but you’re suddenly screaming, shouting and swearing. The children are scared. You don’t know how to stop.
Behind the wheel, you are intolerant of other drivers and can be inclined to ‘road rage’. Volatile reactions on the road, taken to extremes, could lead to some difficult legal situations that you may live to regret.
Drinking and drug-taking can exaggerate the mood you’re in. Alcohol, in particular, can exacerbate your angry behaviour to a point that it’s beyond control = and you’re possibly left feeling contrite the morning after.
Strangers irritate you. People in a street, shop, bar or restaurant can annoy you to the point at which you become verbally or physically abusive – or both.

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Do you need support with your anger?

How anger management therapy can help you:

Our therapists specialising in anger, and how to manage it, can help you identify and understand the triggers for your angry outbursts, create coping mechanisms for your anger, and work on the issues that may be underlying your anger. Our therapists can help you to:

Understand your anger, explore when it started, and why.
Learn when and how to be assertive.
Understand when you’re being passive-aggressive, and how that can fuel your anger with yourself and others.
Learn how to walk away from situations and/or change the course of conversation until you calm down.
Identify the relationship dynamics that trigger your anger.
Develop an anger plan and how to keep an anger journal.
Learn how to channel your angry energy through exercise and relaxation techniques, to develop a healthier lifestyle and calmer way of thinking.
Explore how to let go of hurts and resentments without feeling as though you’ve compromised your values and principles.

Fee:

Low Cost Counselling: £20-£35, if you’re on benefits or a low income.
Private Therapy: £50-£130. Some therapists are a private healthcare provider)

Make an Appointment

You can book an appointment by calling the reception team on 020 8673 4545 or by emailing appointments@theawarenesscentre.com. We are open seven days a week. All of our anger management therapists work from The Awareness Centre in Clapham, and some therapists work from other consulting rooms in South London, including Balham, Battersea, London Bridge, Pimlico, Mitcham, Streatham, Southfields, West Norwood and Wimbledon.

The Awareness Centre also offers Addiction Counselling, Bereavement Counselling, Child & Adolescent Counselling, Eating Disorders Therapy, LGBT Counselling and Multilingual Counselling.

Christine Blake

Accredited:	UKCP
Languages:	English
Works with:	Individuals
Individuals:	£70-£85/hr
Specialisms:	Addiction Bereavement & Loss Family & Relationships Trauma
Skype:	christine.blake5

Christine Blake is trained as an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist, which gives her an in depth understanding of the importance of relationships in helping to shape our experiences in early childhood and throughout our lives. She currently works in private practice with individuals at The Awareness Centre.

As an attachment-based practitioner, she aims to work in a relational way to support you to build a sense of security in yourself and your relationships with others in order to develop the internal resources to cope with the many challenges life brings. Through a psychoanalytic approach she aims to support you to make sense of and find strategies to address unconscious thoughts that can lead to frustrating and repetitive behavioural patterns that can keep you stuck and prevent you from achieving your full potential.

Her practice is underpinned by knowledge of trauma, abuse, bereavement and loss with a background of twenty five years of working with people in the community. This includes working with the sometimes hidden and sometimes overwhelming feelings of anger that can result as a way of managing pain and loss. She also has knowledge and experience of working with addictions and other compulsive or repetitive behaviours that individuals can develop as survival strategies to defend against painful feelings that have never been fully addressed, understood or supported.

Christine says through working with a diverse range of people it has helped her to appreciate the importance of loving relationships and how much people struggle with feeling abandoned and alone, sometimes in the face of terrible depression, anxiety and loss. Her aim is to work through painful or difficult experiences with kindness and warmth to provide a secure base in which it is possible to slowly build trust in an ongoing therapeutic relationship and be empowered to engage in the world in a new way. Christine sees counselling and psychotherapy as a joint venture in which each therapeutic relationship is unique. You are your own expert and she aims to bring her skills and experience to facilitate and empower you to get in touch with your own meaning and purpose.

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Dr Antonella Tomasin

Accredited:	BPS, HCPC, BPC
Languages:	English, Italian
Works with:	Individuals
Individuals:	£100
Private Healthcare:	Aviva, AXA PPP, Bupa, Cigna
Specialisms:	Anger Management Communication & Workplace Issues Depression Family & Relationships

Dr Antonella Tomasin, DPsych/MA Criminology is a Clinical Psychologist chartered with the BPS (British Psychological Society), registered with the HCPC (Health and Care Profession Council) and accredited with the BPC (British Psychoanalytic Council). She obtained her doctoral degree in 2002 in Italy and did the Statement of Equivalence in the UK to be recognised in this country. Dr Tomasin has almost ten years of experience in working within the NHS, mostly IAPT.

Dr Tomasin aims at providing a confidential space where clients feel comfortable to talk about their difficulties. Her approach is client-centred and values greatly their feedback. Due to her integrative approach, she is able to adapt her way of working according to her client’s needs. Dr Tomasin is trained in CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), DIT (Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy), EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing), ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), Mindfulness, DBT (Dialectical Behavioural Therapy), NET (Narrative Exposure Therapy), Mentalization and Compassionate Mind. Dr Tomasin has experience of working with older adults, children, adolescents and couples; however, recently she has been specialising in working with adults.

Dr Tomasin has a particular interest in trauma and relationship problems and has years of experience in supervising junior clinicians. She has expertise in anxiety (worries, stress, panic, OCD etc.), post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, eating disorders, bereavement, health problems, self-confidence, sleep and relationship difficulties (both personal and within the work environment). She is able to offer therapy both in English and Italian.

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Jane Zoega
Jane Zoega
Languages: English

Works with: Individuals, Couples

Individuals: £65/hr

Couples: £75/hr

Specialisms:
Abuse
Addiction
Anxiety
Depression
Jane Zoega is a qualified psychotherapist and counsellor registered with the BACP and the BPS with more than 10 years’ experience working in the private and voluntary sectors in the UK and abroad. Jane has a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in existential psychotherapy. Jane works with individuals, couples and groups in private practice and for two charities; one supporting adult survivors of childhood abuse and the other offering support to vulnerable children in East London. Jane has experience working in a residential addiction treatment centre in Thailand and has many years’ experience working with addiction and recovery, as well as trauma and abuse.

Jane works integratively drawing on her experience and training in various settings. She uses CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), Mindfulness practice and skills, as well as a more person-centred and existential approach often favoured when working with trauma and abuse. Jane spent 18 months working and living in South East Asia where she trained in mindfulness and meditation at a temple in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand. Mindfulness has been the subject of growing attention in recent years, thanks to research finding it to be extremely beneficial for both psychological and physical well-being. Jane is continuing her mindfulness training through Bangor University in Wales.

Jane’s background is in holistic health and she has an on-going interest in the relationship between body and mind. Jane teaches and practices both Yoga and Mindfulness alongside psychotherapy, and has done for many years. Jane divides her time between Dorset and London teaching, running groups and working with individuals. Jane is passionate about her work and has a special interest in trauma and abuse and the psychological affects that continue into adulthood, anxiety, depression, relationships and addiction and recovery.
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Jenna Johns
Jenna Johns
Languages: English

Works with: Individuals

Specialisms:
Addiction
Anger Management
Bereavement & Loss
Family & Relationships
Jenna Johns is psychotherapist working towards her Masters in Counselling Psychology and accreditation from the BACP. Jenna has advanced training in Marriage and Family therapy. As a psychodynamic therapist, she draws on psychodynamic principles that aim to bring the unconscious mind into conscious by guiding individuals in exploring, experiencing and understanding past experiences and their influence on present thoughts and behaviours. She works within The Awareness Centre’s low-cost service.

Jenna is empathetic in understanding that seeking help and opening up can be difficult and feels that each individual needs to be able to be heard and validated in a safe and non-judgmental environment. She feels that it is important to create a therapeutic relationship where the therapist and individual work together to resolve and achieve personal goals.

Jenna uses a psychodynamic therapeutic approach that allows for clients to analyse their thoughts and past experiences for a deeper understanding of themselves and their relationships with others. She seeks to help individuals accept past experiences, identify their needs, wants and values, and commit to achieving who they want to be and feels that identifying cognitive distortions and addressing them is vital to creating a positive outlook on life. She believes an integrative approach can be tailored to the individual need of the client.

With a background of providing in home support care to those with disabilities and medical illness, Jenna has a deep understanding of what it takes to help clients live a happier and healthier life. She knows what it means to be a strong support system for others who are in distress. She has a heart for serving others. She specialises in Anxiety, Bereavement and Loss, Depression and Family and Relationships.
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Léann Lavery
Léann Lavery
Languages: English

Works with: Individuals

Individuals £65/hr

Specialisms
Addiction
Anger
Bereavement & Loss
Depression
Léann Lavery is a qualified counsellor, supporting people dealing with depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship difficulties, anger, suicidal feelings, bereavement and loss. Believing that we all need human connection, she considers the relationship between client and therapist to be the most important aspect of counselling. Léann provides a non-judgemental, safe and confidential space where your healing is supported. She focuses on helping you to better understand your current and past feelings and behaviours, and to also recognise negative patterns that may be affecting how you live your life. This will support you as you find new ways of living and develop more fulfilling relationships.

As an integrative therapist Léann draws on a range of theories – including psychodynamic, existential, and humanistic – and she tailors how she works depending on your needs and aims. She believes our bodies often hold difficult and painful emotions, and she integrates the mind, body and soul in her approach to help facilitate change and work through these emotions. With a background in marketing and PR from different sectors such as charity, television, and higher education, Léann brings this experience into her therapeutic stance where she works creatively with her clients.

Léann has many years’ of experience of working long-term and short-term with clients in a variety of settings, including the NHS. She is a member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and a divisional member of the British Psychological Society (BPS), she is working towards a Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy.
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Lorna Francis
Lorna Francis
Languages: English

Works with: Individuals

Specialisms:
Anger Management
Bereavement & Loss
Family & Relationships
Pregnancy
Lorna Francis is a qualified Integrative counsellor, trained in CBT, Group Facilitation and has attended many courses and CPD’s including Working with Anger, Mindfulness and Psychology of Criminal Behaviour. She is currently working towards her Degree in Counselling/Psychotherapy. She uses different approaches tailored for each client, depending on their individual needs. Lorna is working short-term with NHS patients in Lambeth.

She believes that the therapeutic relationship is a very important one and provides an environment that is safe, empathic and non-judgmental. Drawing on CBT and Integrative modalities, she explores with the client difficult areas of the clients life, identifying and working through negative patterns and behaviours. Helping them to gain more awareness, a deeper understanding of themselves and tools to aid them through tough times and achieve their goals.

Lorna has previously worked in a bereavement charity and specializes in bereavement and loss. She has an interest in pregnancy and childbirth, family and relationships and offenders. Lorna believes that through the therapeutic relationship and process, a nurturing environment and facilitating the growth of personal awareness, clients are able to have more informed choices and move towards a better future.
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Luke Williams
Luke Williams
Accredited: UKCP

Languages: English

Works with: Individuals

Individuals: £60/hr

Specialisms:
Anger Management
Anxiety
Depression
Self-Harm
Luke Williams is a professional person-centred psychotherapist who is registered with the UK Council of Psychotherapy. He holds a post graduate diploma in contemporary person-centred psychotherapy and applications and is currently completing a piece of research on “client’s shifts in therapy” which will give him a Masters qualification. Luke works in a youth counselling agency, at a school and as a private practitioner at The Awareness Centre.

Luke provides an empathic and non-judgemental space that allows clients to explore the areas of their live they feel need attention. He helps clients deepen their understanding of their beliefs, values, decision-making processes and patterns of behaviour. This helps clients realise their potential and make the changes they want. Luke does this in a holistic way that takes embraces a person’s complete and unique experience of life; this helps clients see things in a clearer way and cultivates confidence, self-acceptance and the courage to move forward and make the changes they want for a more harmonious and fulfilling life.

With a background in operations management, training and then education Luke understands the pressures and complexity of commercial and academic institutions and helps clients discover practical ways to fulfil their goals in a way that also protects and nourishes them. He understands managing stress, and external demands and expectations in a busy time pressurised modern city like London can feel overwhelming and helps clients gain perspective, let go of unhelpful internal dialogues and focus on what is really important to them. Luke has lived and worked in several continents and has worked with clients from diverse communities with a wide range of issues. He has extensive experience working with depression, anxiety, self-harm, relationship difficulties, trauma, abuse, confidence and existential anxiety. Luke is passionate about psychotherapy and continues to work as a researcher to uncover and support the latest developments in psychology and psychotherapy. He continues to train and keep up to date with the with the latest research, theoretical developments and psychological treatments.

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Maria Galani
Maria Galani
Languages: English, Greek

Works with: Individuals

Specialisms:
Anger
Bereavement & Loss
Bullying
Life Transitions
Maria Galani is working towards the Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and is a member of the British Psychological Society (MBPsS). As an existential-integrative therapist, she draws on the approaches that best suit the issues the clients bring into the therapy room. She works within the Awareness Centre’s NHS counselling service at a GP surgery in Lambeth. She has worked therapeutically with adults, young people within an inpatient psychiatric ward, as well as in community therapeutic service and schools.

Maria aims to provide an emphatic, non-judgemental space where clients can open up and feel seen and heard for who they truly are. Her approach is existential and integrative. In existential therapy, emotional and psychological difficulties are viewed as inner conflict caused by an individual's confrontation with the givens of existence. Rather than delve into the past, the existential approach looks at the here and now, exploring the human condition as a whole and what it means for an individual. Whilst focusing on the existential approach, Maria is also integrative which means that she draws on the approaches that best suit the issues the clients bring in to the room. Therefore, Maria may use CBT to help clients identify patterns in their thoughts and behaviours or mindfulness based techniques in order to help clients work with the here and now and tame anxious responses. Transactional analysis or Psychodynamic approaches may be used to help clients manage their relationships in a healthier way and understand their own mechanisms and how that plays out in their relationships. Her approach as a whole, is tailored to the individual client.

Through her working life Maria has developed a significant amount of experience in working with bullying, and especially with how earlier experiences of bullying in childhood can influence adulthood and the individual’s self-esteem and sense of self. Maria has a special interest in work place bullying and conflict at workplaces and helping clients to identify healthy ways of managing the feelings that come out of that process. She also has an interest in working with trauma, depression, anxiety disorder, anger, isolation, and in life transitions and what those mean for the individual’s identity.
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Marielle Albers
Marielle Albers
Accredited: HCPC

Languages: English, Dutch

Works with: Individuals

Individuals: £60/hr

Specialisms
Addiction
Anger Management
Bereavement & Loss
Depression
Marielle Albers is a qualified Integrative Psychotherapist who works with adults and young people. She is registered with the Health Care Professional Council (HCPC) and currently works in private practice and at MIND. She has previously held Psychotherapy positions in two NHS trusts in London, providing individual and group art psychotherapy to inpatients and on Forensic Wards. She has also worked therapeutically for a children’s charity and in schools. Marielle has combined her desire to help others with her passion for art. She believes that therapy can help give a voice or a form to suffering, and that this expression in itself can be transformative.

Based on your input and strengths, Marielle likes to agree on a way of working that is unique for every individual. Her approach is informed by a variety of theoretical models that focus on the importance of relationships and the patterns we form to bond with others. She aims to offer a reflective, respectful and supportive space where you can feel free to explore what is on your mind and what might be holding you back from fully living the life you want.

Marielle offers talking therapy, listening carefully to your concerns and helping you to make sense of your problems. She also offers the possibility to use art materials or imagination, to invite you to explore deeper layers of feelings. Using art materials in therapy does not require any artistic skills or abilities: for some people it can offer a valuable extra channel of communicating. Exploring art work, dreams or imagination, can help to find new meaning and deeper insight about yourself. This way of working can be particularly useful if you find it difficult to articulate your feelings in words, or perhaps conversely, if words keep you ‘stuck in your head’ in repetitive thinking patterns.

Marielle has worked with clients from diverse backgrounds with a wide variety of issues such as low self-esteem, depression and anxiety, loss, abuse, trauma and intimacy issues.
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Michaela McCarthy

Accredited:	MBACP Snr. Accred., FDAP
Registered:	UKRCP
Languages:	English
Works with:	Individuals, Couples, Groups
Individuals/Couples:	£100/hr
Medical Insurance:	£130/hr
Groups (2 hrs/8 members):	£30/person
Private Healthcare:	Allianz, Aviva, BUPA, BUPA International, Cigna, Vitality Health, Simply Health, WPA
Specialisms:	Addiction Anger Management Eating Disorders Sex & Relationships
Phone:	07850 282 495
Skype:	michaela.mccarthy5

Michaela McCarthy is an experienced psychotherapist and psychosexual and relationship therapist. She has worked for 20 years as a therapist and has worked both in the public and private sector. Her achievements and contributions to psychological health are a credit to her drive and ambition to support clients wellbeing. Michaela is the Managing Director of The Awareness Centre (TAC), which runs the NHS Counselling Service in Lambeth, Brixton Prison Counselling Service and Low Cost and Private Counselling services.

Michaela has established her private practice in Clapham, South London after leaving her practice in Harley Street. She believes the most important process of therapy is the co-creation between therapist and client to achieve a solid professional relationship which allows space for trust and honesty to develop. Michaela’s intuitive approach enables clients to go on a journey of self-discovery which develops true awareness for personal growth. Michaela also works with other professionals especially with psychiatrists working with medication management.

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Nina Castro
Nina Castro
Languages English, Spanish, Portuguese

Works with: Individuals

Areas of Expertise
Abuse
Anger
Depression
Personality Disorders
Nina Castro is a psychologist and member of the British Psychological Society. She is also a trainee psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She works at The Awareness Centre with NHS patients at a GP surgery in Lambeth. Nina gathers experience of working with adults and families with diverse issues and diagnostics and is working towards an advanced diploma in psychoanalytic psychodrama psychotherapy.

Nina provides a trustful and secure environment that enables the patient to honestly explore their problematic and issues. The therapeutic relationship and the setting assume a core importance to the therapy. Nina basis her intervention in evidence-based knowledge and practice. Her therapeutic approach aims to promote behavioural and thinking changes, personal and relational adjustment, and self-awareness and self-knowledge towards the patient inner freedom and psychological pain relief. Therapeutic goals are defined during the therapeutic sessions together with the patient and the type of therapy elected relies on what is expected to achieve and on the duration of the treatment. Each patient has their own concerns and objectives, and thus the therapeutic approach and accomplishments vary according to the specific case.

With an international background of clinical experience both in the public and in the private sector, Nina offers therapy in three different languages (English, Spanish and Portuguese), being sensitive to the individuals’ cultural and social environments. Nina has worked with presenting issues including depression, anxiety, autism spectrum disorders, dyslexia, hyperactivity and attention deficit disorders, mental disability and others. Moreover, she has an interest in attachment relationships. Nina also provided therapy for adults diagnosed with mood, anxiety, personality disorders and psychosis.
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Olya Sergeeva
Olya Sergeeva
Languages: English

Works with: Individuals

Specialisms:
Anger Management
Bereavement & Loss
Guilt & Shame
Isolation & Loneliness
Olya Sergeeva is working towards a Diploma in Integrative Transpersonal Counselling and Psychotherapy, and is registered with the UKCP. She works short-term with NHS patients at GP surgeries in Wandsworth and an open-ended basis within The Awareness Centre’s low-cost service. Olya works with a person by means of the HERE and NOW approach as well as exploring past childhood traumas. She brings her qualities of patience and grounding, creating a safe atmosphere so a person may feel the warmth and security of the therapeutic relationship which enables them to talk about their personal difficulties. Olya helps and supports people who suffers from depression, anxiety, guilt, rage outbursts, suicidal thoughts or attempts, aloneness and isolation, meaningless and futility of life, loss of a loved one to death or to divorce, separation or breakup of a relationship. Being an integrative counsellor she engages in various approaches of the Gestalt empty chair method, Transactional Analysis of Parent, Adult and Child ego states, person-centred with Unconditional Personal Regard and Empathy. Olya works with unconscious material through dreams or creative imagination as well. Olya was a private tutor of English for adults. While teaching she learned that it was most important to create a safe and trusting relationship so students felt that they were allowed to make mistakes and not to feel ashamed of this.
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Pegah Houshmand
Pegah Houshmand
Languages: English

Works with: Individuals

Individuals: £60/hr

Specialisms
Addiction
Anxiety
Depression
Family & Relationships
Pegah Houshmand is a fully qualified counsellor with over ten years of experience in the field and is currently completing her Doctorate in Counselling Psychology. She is registered with The British Psychological Society (BPS). As an integrative counsellor, she draws on the approaches that best suit the issues that clients bring into therapy and works on a short or long term basis, depending on the clients’ needs, working towards goals that are important to the client.

She aims to provide an empathic, supportive space where clients can open up and feel seen and heard for who they truly are. While counselling helps clients to process difficult or painful thoughts and feelings, she believes that therapy can also focus on the potential of her clients. She works with her clients to identify and draw on their inner resources to live a fuller, more satisfying life. She uses Person-Centred and CBT to identify patterns in their thoughts and behaviours; Psychodynamics to help clients to identify and address the root cause of their problems; Transactional Analysis to help clients manage their relationships in a healthier way; and Mindfulness to help tame anxious responses.

Pegah’s experience includes working with low mood, depression and anxiety, stress, self-harm, bereavement and loss, couples counselling, trauma, alcohol and drug misuse, post-traumatic stress disorder, abuse, agoraphobia, OCD, panic attacks, adjustment to difficult life events or illness, and many other issues. She understands the internal and external pressures people can put on themselves, which can lead to unhelpful or damaging coping strategies. She works with her clients to identify healthier ways of managing emotions and stress, and also has a special interest in eating disorders.
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Rachid Bouriah
Rachid Bouriah
Languages: English, French

Works with: Individuals

Specialisms:
Abuse
Addiction
Anger Management
Anxiety Disorder
Rachid Bouriah is a trainee counsellor working towards level 4 diploma in therapeutic integrative counselling and is registered with the BACP and believes in the clients’ abilities to make positive changes. Rachid is a warm, conscientious, passionate and caring counsellor with extensive knowledge of offering support, rehabilitation and guidance to clients who have experienced addiction, trauma, depression and life hardships.

Rachid has a proven ability to empathise with individuals whilst retaining an objective, non- judgmental and welcoming approach to support clients finds their voices whilst being heard and understood. Rachid worked in addiction services promoting recovery and wellbeing for over 10 years in both settings groups and one to one and is specialised in drugs and alcohol addiction as well as mental health issues such as depression and anxiety disorders. He is training in integrative counselling therapy whereby he uses mainly three different and complementary counselling style, these approaches are Cognitive behaviour therapy, person cantered counselling and psychodynamic counselling with a mixture of many other disciplines that he has learned and developed while working in drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers. In addition to speaking English, Rachid fluently speaks French and Arabic and will be very happy to extend his support to French and Arabic speakers if English is not their preferred language and having good knowledge of clients diversity and the different cultural backgrounds is a real plus.

Rachid’s life experiences have been varied including working as a translator in French and Arabic language as well as in hospitality sector. He understands that mental health and wellbeing is a matter that affects every human being at some point during their lives and having early and appropriate support can really make a difference in people lives while potentially preventing a long struggle.

Rachid feels privileged when witnessing his clients’ growth and values being part of their healing journey.
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Robert Falkner
Robert Falkner
Languages: English, Portuguese

Works with: Individuals

Individuals: £65 - £110/hr

Specialisms:
Anger Management
Family & Relationships
Sexuality
Robert Falkner has completed both an Advanced Diploma and a Masters in Integrative Psychotherapy, both of which are UKCP accredited courses. With a background of over ten years of working with vulnerable young people and their families across London, Rob has worked therapeutically through his training in a variety of settings including hospitals, prisons, GP clinics, schools, in the community and in private practice.

His aim is to provide an environment of curiosity, honesty and care, where a person can become more aware of their habitual patterns and learn to address them in new ways. With a relational and flexible approach, Rob will respect the differences between us, and the range of difficulties people come to therapy with. Rob believes that our emotional lives shape and lead the other parts of ourselves, and our job in therapy is to bring our feelings into clarity. He feels therapy is not about making a problem, fear, trauma or loss ‘go away’, but rather, learning to live with that problem in a new way.

Rob was schooled in the U.K. and Portugal. He has an Honours B.A. in Developmental Studies. His interest in different cultures and countries led him to work in Portugal, Costa Rica, Israel and Canada. He has travelled throughout Europe and North Africa. He is fluent in English and Portuguese. From all this Rob brings his sense of discovery to the one-to-one ‘adventure’ of psychotherapy.
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Sarah Challacombe

Accredited:	National Counselling Society
Languages:	English
Works with:	Individuals
Individuals	£55/hr
Specialisms	Anger Communication & Workplace Issues Depression Stress

Sarah Challacombe is an Integrative Counsellor qualifying with an Advanced Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling with Hypnotherapy Skills. She is an accredited member of the National Counselling Society.

As an integrative Counsellor, Sarah actively listens as her clients talk freely about what is concerning them in their lives. She draws on a variety of models that best suit her clients, with a focus on Gestalt and Humanistic approaches, bringing awareness and conscious understanding of thoughts, feelings and emotions. Sessions are conducted in an empathic, non-judgement safe and confidential space. Sarah works collaboratively and supportively, both long and short term with clients in order they achieve a greater sense of acceptance, health and well-being in their lives.

She has experience working across the public, private and voluntary sector, with a range of demographics. This has given her a great understanding of the pressures encountered in the work place, by UK nationals and international workers making a new life in the UK.

Presenting issues that Sarah has experience with include anger, stress and anxiety, depression, grief and loss, goal achievement, self defeating behaviours, physical, domestic, psychological abuse and guilt and shame. Sarah also has a private practice in Streatham, SW16, practicing as a Counsellor and a Personal and Professional Life Coach.

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Steve Banfield
Steve Banfield
Accredited: UKCP

Languages: English, French, German

Works with: Individuals

Individuals: £50/hr

Specialisms:
Anger Management
Anxiety
Bereavement & Loss
Depression
Steve Banfield is a BACP-registered and UKCP accredited integrative therapist who draws on humanistic, psychodynamic, relational and CBT perspectives to discover the best way to work with your difficulties. He has experience in the NHS and charity settings such as Samaritans, Cruse and Mind and has worked with a range of issues including anxiety, depression, bereavement, relationship difficulties both gay and straight, trauma and suicidal ideation.

In the first instance his approach is to establish a trusting relationship within which you can feel safe and secure enough to explore whatever issues bring you to therapy. Your agenda is central. Steve works supportively, with some challenge, to enable you to re-examine and change your ways of living when these are not working for you.

Steve holds a first class degree in Psychology and a Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling. He is in the final year of his MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy and is working towards UKCP accreditation. He speaks fluent French and German and previously worked in language teaching and training.
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Tony Chapman
Tony Chapman
Languages: English

Works with: Individuals

Individuals: £65/hr

Specialisms:
Addiction
Anger
Bereavement
Eating Disorders
Personal crisis and suffering provide opportunities for self-awareness and for supporting you in discovering patterns of behaviour and their underlying causes. Regardless of the intensity of your dilemma or the depth of your distress, Tony Chapman uses his training in therapeutic counselling to help you stand back and explore your inner world. Gaining greater insight, discovering new perspectives, finding acceptance and emotional resolution from your suffering.

As a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Tony Chapman draws on his training to support his clients in finding a more balanced and authentic life. Working with a model that expands on traditional psychodynamic and emotion focussed therapy by using experiential dynamic strategies in order to foster a deeper understanding of the complexity of your human experience. Exploring together in a safe, friendly, confidential and non judgemental environment, how we can develop your own bespoke skills. We may initially focus on exploring your behaviours, feelings and emotions, working to regulate any anxiety. I encourage tolerating the feelings that have been defended against, and endeavour to restructure and reconsolidate your perspective toward them. An element of awareness training may be integrated into the therapy if appropriate for the client, for the therapist the practice of mindful awareness is not a “bolt-on” but an integral part of his routine. The therapy uses moment-to-moment tracking, practical and experiential techniques were appropriate, in order to encourage profound emotional experiences as an addition to intellectual understanding. Being client centred my approach evolves within its parameters to meet the specific needs of the individual, accentuating the best fit for them personally. Crucially the approach is based on evidence from current advances in neuroscience.

Tony has lived and worked in South London as a company director for more than 25 years. He looks forward to exploring how together we can develop your own bespoke skills, he works hard to help you find practical and emotional strategies, in order to provide future resilience and a renewed zest for life. He has a special interest in abuse, trauma, addiction, rage and anxiety.
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