Team

Dr. Nathan Dowling

 B.A. (Hons), D.Clin.Psych., CPsychol., AFBPsS., Reg. EuroPsy Psychologist

I am a Principal Clinical Psychologist and Psychodynamic Psychotherapist. My approach to therapy focuses on understanding a person’s individual experience of the world and the problems they’ve come to live with. This involves us working together to try to understand the particular meaning of one’s difficulties and troubling feelings and how and why such distressing experiences have occurred at this point in life. Such understandings often help people feel less troubled and ‘stuck’, for example with depression, anxiety or traumatic experiences, clearing the way for the helpful changes.

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I have offered talking therapies to people from a wide variety of backgrounds in NHS Psychology Departments for more than a decade. I continue to work within the NHS and am a registered member of the Black, African and Asian Therapy Network (BAATN).

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As a Clinical Psychologist, I am registered with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC; my profile is here), chartered by the British Psychological Society and am an Associate Fellow of the Society. As a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist, I am registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC; here is my BPC profile). Finally, I've completed training in Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) with the Anna Freud Centre. 

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I firmly believe that therapeutic change is only possible within a  supportive environment. I offer a free 15 minute phone/video call to answer any questions and discuss the possibility of working together.

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I work in person in Harrow (<2 mins walk from Harrow on the Hill Tube),  NW London (NW3) and online.

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Dr. Owen Thompson

BSc. (Hons), D. Clin. Psych., CPsychol., AFBPsS

I am an experienced, HCPC registered Principal Clinical Psychologist with 12 years’ experience working in the NHS. I have worked in various settings including community recovery, specialist inpatient, research trials, secondary care and specialist primary care. I have worked with people who experience severe difficulties including psychosis and emotional and relational difficulties as well as people experiencing depression, anxiety and physical symptoms which may have an emotional component.

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My approach is psychodynamic, meaning that I understand a person’s current difficulties in the context of their past, and that both are attended to in the therapeutic process. Not all of what we experience is available to our conscious mind; the work will take an interest in what goes on under the surface.

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I work online and in person in Victoria (SW1) in Central London. I see people who seek therapy for a specific problem, like feeling depressed or anxious, or because there has been a life transition that has been particularly hard to navigate. Or perhaps because they have a sense of there being repeating patterns in their relationships and life that are leaving them feeling stuck or empty. Sometimes people do not feel exactly sure why they are seeking therapy, there is just a sense of something being not quite right and an idea that this is something that could usefully be explored with another person. I offer a free initial 15 minute consultation.