ISTDP Therapists

In addition to her practice, her work included: nearly 20 years teaching, training and group facilitating in a private Psychotherapy School in North London. She was a member of UKCP Board of Directors for 3 years and a UKCP/HIPC Chair of Assessment Board for almost 10 years. She is currently running a private practice in Central London and once weekly in her home practice in Arkley, Hertfordshire. Her overall practice approach could be summed up as “Tough Love”.

She offers ISTDP therapy both in person in Cornwall, as well as online to people all around the world.

She also offers ISTDP supervision, and is particularly interested in working with clinicians who are new to this complicated model of working.

Julie originally trained as an actress at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where she first became interested in the unconscious drivers that can lead to psychological distress.

After completing the three-year Core training in ISTDP she has gone on to complete a number of advanced trainings, as well as becoming a shadower to a Core training, running over three years. She is currently in an advanced supervision mobilisation group with Dr. Jonathan Entis.

Leila completed AB-ISTDP training in 2025 and has 13 years’ experience working with a diverse range of adults across the lifespan, and is experienced in assisting individuals struggling with anxiety, depression, attachment trauma, and relationship difficulties.

She is particularly interested in how AB-ISTDP creates a safe and secure space in which neurodivergent adults with low support needs can explore and understand themselves with enhanced clarity and compassion.

Catherine has a private practice in Camden Town, offering ISTDP face to face and on-line sessions.  In addition she provides supervision to ISTDP trainees.

Catherine also offers specialist support to people from the performing arts and creative sector who suffer from performance anxiety, creative blocks and self-doubt. She enables people reach their full creative potential.

Catherine is registered and accredited with BACP.

She works with adult clients presenting a range of emotional problems including anxiety difficulties, depression and low moods, trauma, grief, issues with relationship and emotional closeness. Alongside her clinical practice she was involved in the training of therapists, supervision and group facilitation. She is a UKCP listed supervisor.

Ania finds ISTDP approach compassionate, powerful and very helpful in ensuring safety on the road to the unconscious when attending to emotional processes and internal conflicts linked to psychological difficulties.

Her private practice is based in Central London. She offers consultation, short-term and longer-term therapy in person and online.

She loves using ISTDP to help people who want to change. She works in short term blocks in person in Buckinghamshire, in London every other Monday and online. She also runs monthly ISTDP informed online supervision groups. She is an interactive and quite feisty, but kind therapist.

Anthony originally trained as an Integrative Psychotherapist at The Minster Centre, London, and is an accredited member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy.

He offers ISTDP therapy both face to face at his office in Nottingham, as well online.

He became a psychologist in his forties after previously being a business owner. He completed Attachment-Based ISTDP core training in 2025, which is now his primary focus among the various modalities in which he is trained.

Dr Kingma has over 15 years of experience consulting with individuals adjusting to challenging circumstances, including those in demanding environments such as high-performance athletes. These processes often involved addressing anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties and the effects of early emotional trauma.

She has been involved in the training & supervision of therapists and currently devotes her time to her ISTDP practice working with individuals & couples.

He specialises in working with adults with a range of complex difficulties and is also endorsed by the General Medical Council in treating and managing mental health problems associated with physical health issues. He provides training, consultation, and supervision to mental health professionals, including psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychotherapists based both within and outside the UK.

Dr Louis is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and a member of the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis. He is certified by IEDTA (International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association) as a teacher and supervisor in ISTDP. He is a trainer with ISTDP-UK.

He has extensive experience in treating a broad array of psychological and emotion related problems such as anxiety/depression, trauma, grief and loss, self-esteem issues, emotion regulation, relationship difficulties, patterns of self-sabotage and self-defeat. He was a yoga teacher for 10 years and has a special interest in the mind/body connection. He practises in West London and is committed to helping people develop self-compassion and awareness of the blocks to healthy emotional experiencing so they can lead more fulfilling lives and have more satisfying relationships.

She is undertaking advanced training with ISTDP-UK and with Josette Ten Have-de Labije in Berlin, and is widely involved in professional development in the broader ISTDP field.

Having been involved in the training and formation of psychotherapists for many years, Heather also offers supervision and mentoring.

She is fascinated to work within the attachment-based ISTDP framework, having seen the positive impact the related interventions can have on current interpersonal, health and psychological difficulties. She offers a warm and compassionate approach whilst identifying unconscious beliefs and processes which contribute to distress, low mood and anxiety. She invites curiosity, precision and rejection of unhelpful and self-sabotaging dynamics while promoting self-compassion, self-care and self-acceptance.

She has worked in a variety of settings, including an IAPT service, Employee Assistance Programmes and is currently in private practice.

Appointments can be face-to-face in Derbyshire, UK, or online.

Having worked in the NHS for 12 years in various settings, he left to set up a private practice. He has experience treating a wide range of emotion-related problems, including depression, anxiety, trauma, OCD, Bipolar Disorder and various personality disorders. His areas of special interest include trauma, unexplained physical pain and attachment.

In addition to his clinical work, he has taught at the University of Hertfordshire and University of Nottingham for their Clinical Psychology doctoral training programmes. He has also published research in the area of disability and mental health.

Guy has worked in the NHS since 2008, in various settings including community and inpatient mental health. His current NHS role involves working people with difficult or traumatic health experiences, and as such includes working with loss, life changes, and persistent physical symptoms, as well as the strain on relationships that often goes with these. He is a visiting lecturer on the University of Exeter’s doctoral training programme for clinical psychologists.

As part of his further development in ISTDP he is currently in an advanced, international training group. John works in private practice in Central London and at the Priory Hospital North London. He previously worked in outpatient clinics in the NHS. Prior to becoming a psychologist John was a professional ski-racer. He enjoys following sport, especially developments in sports psychology, as well as music and films.

In private practice Ann-Marie offers psychological therapy to individuals with a wide range of difficulties; these include anxiety, depression, trauma, attachment related difficulties and interpersonal/relationship difficulties. She offers both short and longer-term therapy either online or face-to-face in Coventry, Solihull and the surrounding area.

He has worked in a variety of clinical settings in the NHS as well as in private clinics. In addition to his clinical work, he acts as a visiting lecturer for the Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology at City University London. Garret works in a private clinic in Greenwich, providing both brief and longer-term therapy to adults.

She has experience working with a range of emotional and physical health difficulties from anxiety, depression to medically unexplained symptoms with a specialist interest in cross-cultural issues. She offers both online and face-to-face sessions; her consultation room is 5 minutes’ walking distance from Victoria station.

He is a specialist in emotional wellbeing and also functional symptoms. He is a visiting lecturer of ISTDP at various Clinical Psychology Doctoral Programmes and has presented on the effective application of ISTDP to national and international audiences. He has a private clinic on a Tuesdays offering ISTDP online. He is currently open to self-referrals.

He works with adults who are outwardly coping yet privately overwhelmed, emotionally stuck or physically tense. Alongside anxiety and depression, he helps with attachment and relational difficulties such as people-pleasing, emotional withdrawal and fear of conflict.

A particular focus is stress-related and medically unexplained (persistent) physical symptoms, for example IBS-type symptoms, headaches, chest tightness, dizziness, fatigue and chronic tension, especially when investigations are reassuring but symptoms continue.

ISTDP is an active, experiential approach: we track moment-to-moment shifts in feeling, anxiety and defences, reduce symptom fear and avoidance/reassurance loops, and build new ways of responding that hold outside sessions.

Zach offers sessions in English and Greek.

He has worked in the NHS for over 16 years and is experienced in providing psychotherapy to people who suffer from a wide range of social, emotional, physical and mental health problems that are underpinned by complex trauma.

Anthony has a particular interest in working with health, depression, anxiety and emotional regulation, relational and embodied trauma, inclusive of somatic or medically unexplained physical symptoms.

Dr Wharton is currently taking on new referrals for private practice.

Dr Madenlidou is currently a trainee in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), with ISTDP-UK. Her psychotherapy training is complemented by her experience in psychodynamic psychotherapy and CBT. She is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association (IEDTA) and holds full registration with the General Medical Council (GMC).

She is currently available to take on clients for online therapy in the ISTDP format.

Jeanette is a qualified psychodynamic counsellor and EMDR practitioner and is currently undertaking ISTDP Core training with ISTDP-UK.

Sarai trained at the Tavistock Clinic in London in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (D58 and D59 trainings), and the Institute of Psychoanalysis (Foundation Course). Alongside private practice she has worked as a psychodynamic psychotherapist in the Trauma Service at the Tavistock Clinic, and at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust as staff counsellor during the Covid pandemic.