Psychodrama therapists

Sahar is a compassionate and highly experienced therapist dedicated to supporting adults as they navigate stress, relationship challenges, and the profound impact of trauma on their emotional and physical well-being. She specializes in addressing complex issues such as childhood and past trauma, violence and abuse (physical, emotional, sexual), abusive relationships, stress-related disorders including PTSD, and psychosomatic disorders. Sahar integrates powerful modalities like Internal Family Systems (IFS), Psychodrama, and dedicated Trauma Therapy, offering a truly integrative approach tailored to each client. She has extensive experience working with diverse client groups, including survivors of abuse and violence, individuals affected by war, persecution, and displacement, immigrants and expats, as well as parents, caregivers, and those living with serious medical conditions. In her sessions, Sahar focuses on deep emotional processes, skillfully using creative methods, metaphors, and body language awareness to foster profound insight and healing. Clients can expect a collaborative space where challenging questions are met with praise and encouragement, helping them reframe problems and discover their own solutions, often with appropriate humor and a focus on building resilience. She is committed to collaborating with other professionals when necessary, ensuring comprehensive and holistic care.

Simone Heath warmly welcomes all clients, fostering a safe space for free self-expression, healing, and exploration, grounded in her integrative approach with strong foundations in Psychodynamic, Person-Centred, and Psychoanalytic therapies. Her expertise spans a wide array of individual concerns, including anxiety, stress, panic attacks, anger management, sleep problems, and deep dives into self-reflection, personal growth, low self-esteem, loneliness, and emotional turmoil, addressing issues like guilt, shame, trust, and personal boundaries. Simone also provides compassionate support for complex challenges such as childhood and past trauma, violence and abuse, stress-related disorders like PTSD, mood disorders, and navigating difficult relationship dynamics including family conflicts, romantic issues, codependency, and abusive relationships. She guides clients through significant life transitions like grief and loss, adapting to new living conditions, emigration, age-related crises, and career challenges, job loss, work-life balance, and financial stress. Simone's inclusive practice extends to diverse groups, including older adults and seniors, students and young adults, ethnic and cultural communities, and survivors of abuse and violence. During sessions, she flexibly adapts to each client's unique needs, balancing guidance with client-led exploration; she focuses on deep emotional processes, often exploring past experiences to understand their present impact, while also addressing current concerns. Clients can expect a collaborative environment in which she helps reframe problems, encourages them to find their own solutions, and offers encouragement for progress, ultimately aiming to build self-awareness, communication skills, and tools to prevent recurrence.

Ioanna Karaoulani brings over 20 years of dedicated experience to supporting children, teenagers, young people, and adults through a wide range of challenges, including stress, anxiety, panic attacks, emotional turmoil, low self-esteem, and mood disorders like depression. Her expertise extends to navigating complex issues such as childhood trauma, PTSD, personality disorders, relationship difficulties, family challenges, and career transitions, as well as the unique experiences of immigrants, expats, and those seeking personal growth. Ioanna employs an eclectic and integrated therapeutic approach, drawing from Person-Centred, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness, Solution-Focused, Trauma Therapy, and Family Therapy modalities. She skilfully balances reflective space with practical guidance, focusing on deep emotional processes while providing actionable strategies and tools, including carefully selected homework and recommended resources. Ioanna flexibly adapts her methods to each client's unique needs, working primarily with present concerns and exploring past experiences when relevant, to help them reframe problems and build robust support networks. She is particularly adept at encouraging clients to discover their own solutions, fostering independence and resilience, and is praised for being a caring, listening, proactive, and engaging expert who challenges clients to challenge themselves. Ioanna is dedicated to empowering individuals to take an active role in their healing journey, offering praise, encouragement, and relapse prevention tools to ensure lasting well-being, and collaborates with other professionals for comprehensive support when needed.

David offers deeply integrative psychotherapy, skillfully blending psychodynamic, humanistic, attachment-based, Internal Family Systems, body-based, and mindfulness practices to provide comprehensive support. He works extensively with individuals navigating profound personal growth journeys and those grappling with significant life transitions such as stress, anxiety, fear, and the complexities of breakup and divorce. David's approach is particularly effective for adults experiencing challenges in relationships, self-esteem, and those feeling stuck or conflicted between different parts of themselves – be it independence versus closeness, ambition versus burnout, or longing versus fear of intimacy. His therapeutic process often involves exploring past experiences to understand their enduring impact today, fostering deep self-reflection and a renewed search for meaning. With extensive experience, he supports a diverse range of adults, including career-focused professionals, older adults, and parents, helping them navigate midlife changes, grief, and long-standing patterns of avoidance. David provides a calm, attentive, and attuned environment where clients can feel seen, understood, and safe enough to explore difficult truths, ultimately integrating shadow and potential to discover a truer sense of self.

Anita Dhanecha offers deeply compassionate and inclusive therapy, drawing on integrative and person-centred approaches to support clients through a wide range of life's complexities. She specializes in guiding individuals navigating anxiety, grief, loss, stress, depression, and significant life transitions, alongside issues such as racial and cultural identity, gender identity, and family dynamics. Anita holds a special connection to parents, particularly mothers, helping them process the emotional highs and lows of parenthood, and provides an affirming space for LGBTQ+ individuals and vegans exploring ethical living. With extensive experience in acquired brain injury, she offers specialized support for individuals and their families adjusting to new realities. Her sessions are open-ended and highly adaptable, balancing deep emotional exploration of past experiences with practical strategies for present concerns, encouraging creative methods and collaborative dialogue. Anita helps clients reframe challenges, develop resilience, and discover their own solutions, fostering profound self-reflection and personal growth within a genuinely non-judgmental and empathetic environment. As a South Asian therapist, she offers a unique understanding of cultural nuances and generational expectations, ensuring a truly supportive and understanding space for all.

Claire is a Gestalt therapist dedicated to supporting individuals ready for profound change, particularly when their current coping strategies are no longer effective. She brings extensive experience to clients navigating anxiety, low self-esteem, grief, and loss, as well as those adapting to new life conditions, seeking deeper meaning, or addressing behavioural disorders like eating disorders, alongside significant career transitions and development. Utilising her expertise in Gestalt therapy, Claire focuses intensely on present concerns and deep emotional processes, fostering self-reflection and personal growth within open-ended, client-led sessions. Her empathetic approach is particularly beneficial for diverse groups, including career-focused professionals, expecting parents, older adults, students, and individuals managing job loss, financial stress, neurodiversity, or high-responsibility roles. Claire flexibly adapts each session to individual needs, actively engaging clients through creative methods, metaphors, and an awareness of body language, all while encouraging them to discover their own solutions. She provides consistent praise and encouragement for progress, recommends valuable resources, and, when necessary, collaborates with other professionals to ensure comprehensive support. Ultimately, Claire empowers her clients to reframe challenges, build robust support networks, and move forward with greater understanding and a renewed sense of purpose.

Sam offers a warm, supportive, and encouraging space for individuals seeking to explore deep emotional processes and experiences, particularly those grappling with low self-esteem, neurodivergent experiences, existential questions, and challenges around personal boundaries. He often works with clients navigating work-related stress, burnout, relationship difficulties, and creative blocks, who may feel stuck, unfulfilled, or disconnected from their purpose and meaning in life. Sam's integrative transpersonal psychotherapy approach flexibly adapts to each client's unique needs, balancing guided reflection with client-led exploration, and often delving into past experiences to understand their current impact. In sessions, clients can expect to find insight into repeating patterns, develop emotional regulation, and build resilience to engage with life more authentically. Known for his empathic, gentle, and intellectually curious nature, Sam utilises creative methods and metaphors to help clients reframe problems and discover new perspectives. He encourages clients to find their own solutions, fostering greater agency and a profound sense of self-acceptance. This open-ended therapeutic journey welcomes the exploration of complex philosophical and spiritual questions, providing a safe container for all perspectives, whether navigating mood disorders, grief, or family dynamics.

Kay primarily supports adults aged 18 and above, particularly those navigating the profound impacts of childhood and past trauma, including experiences of violence and abuse, and complex grief and loss. She also specialises in working with individuals exploring gender identity, those diagnosed or self-diagnosed with ADHD, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Drawing extensively from person-centred and trauma therapy, Kay provides an open-ended, flexible approach that deeply explores past experiences and their ongoing impact. Her integrative style allows her to adapt flexibly to each client's unique needs, incorporating a rich mix of therapeutic approaches to foster profound healing and personal growth. Clients can expect a dynamic and engaging space where Kay brings awareness to non-verbal cues, uses metaphors to illuminate experiences, and isn't afraid to ask challenging yet supportive questions, often using humour when appropriate. She consistently provides praise and encouragement, helping clients reframe problems, offering tools for relapse prevention, and empowering them to discover their own unique solutions, creating a truly supportive and transformative therapeutic journey.