THERAPISTS
JANINA JOFFE
is a BACP registered psychodynamic counsellor and psychotherapist working with (individual) adults.
She completed her training at Birkbeck, where she gained an MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling & Psychotherapy. Prior to that she studied at the British Psychotherapy Foundation and the University of Oxford where she received her BA(Hons)/MA.
She has experience of working with a wide range of complex issues and client groups in private practice, the NHS and the charitable sector as well as student counselling in higher education at UCL and Queen Mary University London.
She began her career in the art world and has a particular interest in creative professions and the intersection between art and psychoanalysis.
She is also accredited with the British Psychoanalytic Council as a psychodynamic counsellor.
MICHAEL TOLLER
is an experienced counsellor and psychotherapist based in London, working face-to-face and online.
Michael believes the aim of psychotherapy is always to help a client gain new understanding and help them move forwards by finding new meaning in their experience. In this way, he helps people address feelings of depression, anxiety and stress related to relationships, family, work, cultural or societal expectations, health issues, sexuality, identity and abuse.
While his training is psychodynamic, he actively integrates key ideas from existential, relational and neuropsychoanalytic therapeutic approaches into his work. Michael holds an MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling & Psychotherapy from Birkbeck College, University of London and is a registered and accredited member of the BACP, a registered member of the BPC, and a Clinical Fellow of The Neuropsychoanalysis Association.
SARAH WESTLAKE
is an experienced psychodynamic psychotherapist who sees individuals and couples face to face or on Skype and works with a wide range of issues including trauma, complicated grief, relationship breakdown, parenting difficulties, racial, sexual and emotional abuse, impact of war, depression, autism, borderline personality disorder, dementia carers, and sexual problems.
As a psychology graduate she initially trained in couples counselling with Relate and followed this by a 4 year WPF training in London, where she completed a post-graduate diploma and advanced diploma in psychodynamic psychotherapy. She has worked in a variety of therapeutic settings, providing long and short term therapy at a hospice, seeing GP referred clients, as well as a project for the long term unemployed. She has also worked extensively in private practice and teaches introductory and certificate courses in psychodynamic counselling and trained as a supervisor at the SAP.
Previously Sarah worked in TV documentary production for 20 years and uses this experience to help clients connect with meaning in visual imagery and to nurture their own creativity. She also trained as a massage therapist and uses this work to help clients understand how emotional distress can manifest as physical symptoms.
She is an Accredited Member of the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) and a member of the BPS (British Psychological Society).