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United Kingdom · Psychologists

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• Adiv Maimon — Adiv is a serial inventor, explorer and entrepreneur. He's co-founded and helped build multiple startups, including a digital marketing agency, a small business management platform (Knack), a marke...
• adrian perkel — Dr AK Perkel is a clinical psychologist in private practice specialising in individual adult and couple psychotherapy. Previously a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of the Western Ca...
• Alexa Young — Alexa Young is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Johannesburg. She has worked in Johannesburg and London and has an interest in working with adults and relational and personality diffi...
• Ali Ghasemian — Ali is a psychologist with extensive experience in research and relationship therapy. His expertise spans areas such as near-death experiences (NDEs), spirituality, and Imago Relationships Therapy ...
• Amy Clark — Amy is a registered psychologist (AHPRA) with clinical experience in adult mental health. She has worked across public, private, and telehealth settings, with a particular interest in neurodevelopm...
• Andrea Fourie — Andrea holds her undergraduate speech therapy degree from the University of Cape Town and Masters of Arts in Speech Pathology from the University of the Witwatersrand. Andrea has a passion for medi...
• Andy Nossel — Andy Nossel is both an Occupational Therapist and a Registered Counsellor. She has 30 years' experience in many areas of counselling, including psychiatry, addiction, trauma and palliative care. An...
• Aviva Keren Barnett — Aviva Keren Barnett is an accredited existential psychotherapist, counsellor, international lecturer, and published author. Aviva trained in the Guys and St Thomas's Palliative Care Department as w...
• Bellavista S.H.A.R.E — Bellavista S.H.A.R.E is a training unit and resource centre for health professionals and teachers. We provide onsite and online training and talks.
• Bertrand Leopeng — Bandile Bertrand Leopeng is a Professional Boxer and Counselling Psychologist working within a multifarious framework. His main areas of interest include Psychoanalysis, race, decolonization, neuro...
• Callyn Bowler — Callyn Bowler is a psychometrist who has developed a series of workshops on writing the board exam. She has been running these hugely successful workshops for 3 years, helping psychologists ,counse...
• Carmen Betterridge — Carmen Betterridge is the Director and Principal Psychologist with Suicide Risk Assessment, Australia. Carmen’s early career included counselling and support services to women who had experie...
• Carmen Froneman — Im here for the hard conversations, the raw, emotional vulnerable spaces and the amazing spirit of being human.  I’ve been studying psychology (and being a lifelong student will probably...
• Carmine Nieman — I am an Industrial and Organisational psychology professional working at the University of the Free State Organisational Development and Employee Well-Being Division as well as the Department of In...
• Carol Surya — Carol Surya is a children’s wellness expert, counseling psychologist, author and game developer, who is passionate about empowering parents, children and those involved in raising childr...
• Cathy Milwidsky — Cathy Milwidsky has been the Head of Early Learning and Development at Moriah College, based in the Eastern suburbs of Sydney since 2005. She manages the staff and children in three early lear...
• Cheryl Fisher — Cheryl Fisher (MSC OT) runs an Occupational therapy practice specialising in Sensory Integration with children aged birth to approximately 13 years of age, informed by principles of DIR:Floortime. ...
• Christien Neser — Christien Neser BA(Log)UP BA Hons (Fr)UNISA MA Applied Linguistics UJ Retired Speech Therapist  Active writer Radio contributor to RSG Groeipyne (Programme on preschool children) Active in NGO...
• Cindy Strydom — Cindy is an HPCSA-registered Clinical Psychologist with a preference for working predominantly from a Cognitive Behavioural Therapeutic (CBT) paradigm . She developed an interest in CBT from her in...
• Colinde Linde — Colinda Linde qualified as a Clinical Psychologist in 1992, and after a year as Resident Psychologist at two Places of Safety, she went into private practice. Colinda works from a Cognitive Behavio...
• Crick Lund — Crick Lund, BA (Hons), MA, MSocSci (Clinical Psychology), PhD, is Professor and Director of the Alan J. Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Universi...
• Dain Peters — Dain Peters is a qualified musician, Clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst. He serves on the executives of the SAPC (The South African Psychoanalytic Confederation) and SAAJA (South African Ass...
• Dan Wolf — Dan Wolf, director of Houghton House Group of Treatment Centres, is a registered psychologist who specialises in dealing with addictive disorders. He graduated from the University of the Witwatersr...
• Dani Schlesinger — Dani Schlesinger is a speech therapist and audiologist who coordinates the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital Cochlear Implant Programme in Soweto, where she has worked for the past 13 years....
• Digby Ormond-Brown — Digby Ormond-Brown is the principal neuropsychologist at the Netcare Rehabilitation Hospital, where he has been based since 1994. He has been immersed in the neurosciences for his entire career. Di...
• Dr Jana Lazarus — Dr Jana Lazarus is a Clinical Psychologist committed to client care and consultation with all ages around behavioural, mental and emotional difficulties. She has knowledge of infant observation, pl...
• Dr Ute Liersch — Dr Ute Liersch – CPD Educator | Chartered Psychologist | Author | Leadership Strategist   When the nervous system unravels, we don’t need more performance — we need the psyc...
• Dr. Alison Bentley — Dr Bentley has been seeing patients with sleep problems, both adults and children, off and on over the last 30 years. She ran the first private diagnostic sleep laboratory in South Africa from 1990...
• Dr. Anusha Lachman — Dr. Anusha Lachman currently heads the Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Unit at Tygerberg Children’s Hospital in Cape Town and is a joint lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the Universit...
• Dr. Tali Frankel — Dr. Tali Frankel has dedicated the past 22 years to the profession of speech and language therapy, and she considers it her life's work to bridge communication gaps in a range of clinical populatio...
• Dr. Tami Mehl — Tami Mehl has an honour’s degree in Speech Therapy and Audiology from the University of the Witwatersrand, a Master’s degree in Communication Pathology and Audiology from the University of Pretoria...
• Dr. Wendy Duncan — Dr. Wendy Duncan MBBCh (Wits), FCPsych (SA), Cert Child Psych (SA) is a child and adolescent psychiatrist in private practice. She is currently the President of the South African Association of Chi...
• Dr. Yair Edinburg — Dr Yair Edinburg is the medical practice owner of the Ubuntu Family Health Centre and co-owner of Aurora Medical Aesthetics Centre. Dr Yair Edinburg qualified from WITS with an MBBCH. He completed ...
• Ella Brent — Dr Ella Brent trained in the UK, and has a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from University College London. Between 2000 and 2002 she worked in Public Health in the UK in Child and Family Services....
• Elliot Greenebaum — I run an archive of contemporary clinical practice, recorded with care and respect for the humanity at the center of therapy. We curate essential contemporary therapeutic approaches and present the...
• Fiona Breytenbach — Fiona completed her Honours in BOccTher from the University of Pretoria in 2011. She has a passion for neurology and neuro-rehabilitation and has completed her Masters in neuroscience at University...
• Frances Williams — Frances is a clinical psychologist and supervisor in private practice
• Gallianno Cosme — Licensed professional counsellor and therapist working with the LGBTQ+ community.
• Garth Amundson — Garth Amundson is a psychoanalytical clinician with interests in Jungian and object-relational perspectives, now semi-retired in rural Western Minnesota, USA. Until recently he practiced for 25 yea...
• Gayle Landau — Gayle Landau qualified with a BSc (Medical Honours) in Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Cape Town. She has clinical and hospital experience working with adults, having worked in the p...
• Gino Cosme — For 12 years, Gino worked as a digital communication consultant and strategist, working with clients in South Africa and across Asia, Europe, America and Africa. Gino developed a keen interest in h...
• Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt — Harville Hendrix, Ph.D and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D. are partners in life and work. They are co-creators of Imago Relationship Theory & Therapy, and cofounders of Quantum Connections, LLC. Imag...
• Hayley Hoffman — Using Polyvagal Informed Imago Relationship Therapy I offer individuals and couples therapy a warm, secure connection as a path to repair and recover. Polyvagal Theory helps build resilient nervous...
• Iram Osman (Nazia) —   Dr Nazia Iram Osman is an independent, board-certified clinical psychologist registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) and a professional service provider regist...
• Joanne Zagnoev — Joanne Zagnoev is a clinical psychologist. She has been in private practice for 25 years.  Her therapeutic approach is psychodynamic but her works is client informed and therefore eclectic. She is ...
• Jodie de Bruyn — Jodie de Bruyn is a lecturer at the University of Pretoria. She obtained her Occupational Therapy Master's degree in Neurology in 2012. She is the chairperson of the Vona and Marie du Toit foundati...
• Joshua Coleman —   Dr. Coleman is a psychologist in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area and a Senior Fellow with the Council on Contemporary Families, a non-partisan organization of leading ...
• Juana Horn — Juana Horn is a developmental psychodynamic clinical psychologist who has been in private practice for about 30 years. She has extensive experience in a range of psychological assessments, and has ...
• Judith Ancer — Judith Ancer is a Clinical psychologist in private practice in Greenside, Johannesburg. She has worked at Tara Hospital on the adult psychotherapy ward; at Crossroads Remedial School with children ...
• Judy Rankin — I am a Psychologist with HPCSA. I have Masters in Counselling Students at Universities in South Africa and internationally. I have been running numerous accredited workshops in South Africa for ove...
• Karabo Molobela — Karabo is a driven young woman from Johannesburg who is fascinated with human behaviour and mental processes and is passionate about the science of psychology. Her former volunteer position intensi...
• Karien Marais — Karien is a speech-language therapist with decades of experience working with children with cerebral palsy and other neurodevelopmental conditions. Karien has worked at schools for children with Ce...
• Kelita Hoffman — I am a mother of a child with a unilateral left cleft lip and palate.I have gone through treatment with my son in the USA and in SA including:Nasoalveolar MouldingCleft lip and nose repairLingual f...
• Klikd — Klikd provides accessible resources for parents, educators, teens and tweens to ensure that social media is used happily, but safely and responsibly. Founded by clinical psychologist, Pam Tudin and...
• Kobus Du Plooy — As a scientist-practitioner and registered clinical psychologist, I am passionate about the profession of psychology wherein I predominantly specialise in the Interactional Approach to psychohterap...
• Kyla Edinburg — I work as a clinical psychologist, currently in private practice, in Sydney Australia. I have a strong interest in working with couples and individuals concerning issues around gender and adoption....
• Lara Benigson — Lara graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand with a degree in speech therapy and audiology, and has subsequently spent the past 15 years in clinical practice where she has developed a sp...
• Lauren Aron — Highly Specialist Eating Disorder Psychotherapist | Director of The Hope Space | CBT-E & Trauma-Informed Therapy Specialist I’m a highly specialist psychotherapist with close to a decade ...
• Lauren Shapiro — Lauren Shapiro is a writer with a Master’s degree in Creative Writing (UKZN, 2006, cum laude) and many years’ experience as a freelance journalist with a special interest in women’s issues. In 2012...
• Leanne Stillerman — Leanne Stillerman is a Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Johannesburg. She offers psychotherapy for adults, children and adolescents. Leanne believes in the potential of psychotherapy to...