Michael Toller

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Available for new clients
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London, EC2A 4RQ
Available for new clients
Available for new clients

This professional is available for new clients.

About me

My role as a therapist is to help people to explore their problems and work through them in a supportive way. The aim is always to help a client to gain new understanding and help them move forwards.

This usually involves exploring a client's immediate circumstances and feelings and thinking about past events and how these might affect the present. Sometimes, it can be helpful to explore dreams and more loosely associated memories.

In this way, I help people address feelings of depression, anxiety or stress related to relationships, family, work, cultural or societal expectations, health issues, sexuality, identity and abuse.

As a starting point, I offer a free consultation by phone to explore your situation, get a feel for what it will be like to work together and to answer any questions you have. This is always a very open conversation with no expectation or obligation to work together.

The next step is to meet face-to-face or online for two or more assessment sessions, to think together about what you want to get from therapy and to help us decide if I am the right therapist for you.

If we then decide to work together, we will meet weekly in person at my consulting room in Shoreditch. I also offer the opportunity to work remotely via phone or video call depending on your circumstances.

We can work together for a fixed amount of time or on an open-ended basis, depending on what we mutually agree will be most helpful.

If you would like to explore how psychotherapy could help you, please get in touch for an initial conversation.

Training, qualifications & experience

I am an experienced psychotherapist working online and face-to-face, helping clients deal with issues such as anxiety, depression, seasonal affective disorder, feeling sad or stuck, loneliness, stress, panic attacks, low self-esteem or low self-confidence, or family, identity or relationship issues.

I am deeply committed to helping people understand themselves, find meaning and live better lives, and believe that therapy is most impactful when it is based on mutual trust, respect and openness to growth.

While my training is psychodynamic, I actively integrate key ideas from existential, relational and neuro-psychoanalytic therapeutic approaches into my work. If you would like to know more about what this means in practice, please ask me when we meet.

I'm a registered and accredited member of the BACP (Certificate number 268783), a registered member of the BPC (Registration number 22323) and a Clinical Fellow of The Neuro psychoanalysis Association. I work according to the BACP and BPC Ethical Frameworks.

I hold an MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling & Psychotherapy from Birkbeck College, University of London.

Member organisations

Registered / Accredited

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BACP
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)

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Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).

Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision.

Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training.

All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.

Accredited register membership

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
Accredited Register Scheme

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British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy

Fees

£90.00 per session
Free initial telephone or online session

Concessions offered for

  • Trainee counsellors

When I work

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Flexible

City Psychotherapy Service, 32-38 Scrutton Street, London, EC2A 4RQ

Type of session

In person
Online
Phone

Types of client

Adults
Older adults
Organisations

Key details

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Michael Toller
Michael Toller