Our therapists

provide specialised LGBTQ therapy using various therapeutic modalities including CBT, EMDR, Person centred counselling and other holistic therapies and support including Qi Gong, mindfulness, and coaching. Our professionals are compassionate, well-informed, and most importantly supervised for their practice. Every therapist, coach and support staff's practices is supervised by a senior supervisor and that supervisor is also supervised so rest assured the therapy and support you receive is accounted for.

All our therapists are trained in at least one modality, and we encourage the use of a formulation driven approach, so your difficulties can be understood in the context of your life.

We encourage our therapists to keep up to date with continual professional developmenton mental health issues but also other topics including race relations, gender identity, sexuality thus allowing them to work intersectionally to provide you the best LGBTQ + therapy experience.

All our therapists are Queer and allies and have much lived experience as well as knowledge, skill and experience of working with the LGBTQ+ community.

The therapy

we offer will be depenedent on what your difficulties are, any previous experience of therapy you have had and what you wish to achieve. We offer a range of therapies including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR), Person centered counselling amongst others. Our "LGBTQ+ therapy" takes into account your LGBTQ+ identity but you determine how relavent that is to your therapeutic journey. You don't need to explain what being Queer / LGBTQ+ means, we get it. 

We aim to provide you with the most appropriate, efficient and effective therapy in the most suitable way possible. Though most of our therapy will be provided face to face online, where possible we can also offer audio/telephone, synchronised text therapy or face to face in person therapy

We understand not every therapy is suitable for every problem and not every problem is suitable for therapy. Therapy itself has limitations and where we believe alternative support would be more suitable then our service then we will aim to get you  that support else where. 

If you have any questions or would like more information about what type of therapy or therapist you may need or want then please do not hesitate to contact us and we will aim to match you with someone who will be able to support you.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

looks at how your cognitions (thoughts) and behaviours (what you do) affects your body and emotions. It helps you look at patterns of behaviours and thoughts to help you break vicious cycles. It is a short term therapy with the focus on the here and now which is informed by your past. We have a number of CBT therapists including Saquib Ahmad, Simon Lyne, Camille Allison and Owen Barlow. Click on their names for more info. 

Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy

looks at processing distressing and dysfunctional memories to help you become desensitised to them using adaptive information you already have. EMDR uses a physiological model allowing you to lose the "sting" that comes from these traumatic memories to help you get on with your life. Though you may still remember what happened, it will not impact you in the way it did before. We have a number of EMDR therapists including Saquib Ahmad, Simon Lyne and Camille Allison. Click on their names for more info. 

Person centered counselling

is a non-directive therapeutic approach where the counsellor utilises the three main principles of the person centered approach; empathic understanding: the counsellor trying to understand the client's point of view, congruence: the counsellor being a genuine person and  unconditional positive regard: the counsellor being non-judgemental with the aim to help you understand, express and move on from difficulties you are or have experienced. Bruno Conde is our person centered counsellor and he is ready to support you and offers sessions in English and Portuguese. Click here for more info. 

Art Therapy

is a non-directive therapeutic approach your therapist helps you express yourself, your emotions, feelings, thoughts and other experiences through art materials. Art therapy can be very helpful for those who struggle to express themselves in words but have feelings they want to understand and process.  You do not have to be good at art AT ALL to be able to engage meaningfull in art. Our in house Art Therapist Wafa Osman who works in English and Arabic can support you in this therapeutic process. Click here for more info.