Adi Steiner, Psychotherapist BPC Accredited, HCPC registered

About me

I feel privileged to accompany people on their journey towards their desired goals and good mental health and my ethos is that through therapy we can increase self awareness which ultimately gives a person more choices in life.

I am a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist with over ten years experience working therapeutically with children, adolescents and adults who experience a wide range of difficulties. My passion and speciality is working with adolescents and young people who struggle with mental health difficulties such as Depression and long standing Anxiety issues and with adults who feel they have long term difficulties with issues such as relationship problems, Depression, transitions in life (becoming a parent for example) and loss.

Alongside my clinical work in private practice and in the NHS, I am also a Course Lead (Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health studies), lecturer and supervisor at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

About Psychotherapy

Starting therapy can be frightening and talking to someone you do not yet know can feel odd to some. By providing a safe, consistent and respectful space I hope to ease some of these initial anxieties.

Psychotherapy offers a unique and careful exploration of the underline issues that often present themselves in a person’s life as ‘problems’ or ‘symptoms’. By increasing awareness of what might be going on ‘under the surface’, I believe we can improve our mental health and feel better equipped to face life’s challenges.

What I offer

For under 18s I offer initial consultations for parents and their child or young person unless the young person would like to be seen on their own and when it is safe and appropriate to do so. Normally an initial consultation will be an hour and a half for the first time, followed by further 50 minute sessions depending on need. This will allow us time to take some background history, explore the reasons for coming to therapy and setting some goals. Time and frequency of sessions will then be agreed.

Although my core training sits within the Psychoanalytic approach, when it comes to people I do not think that ‘one size fits all’ and so I take a holistic approach when conducting assessments and offer a flexible therapeutic process depending on the personality and the needs of my patients.

For adults I offer initial consultation/s that last 50 minutes and will help facilitate some joint understanding of the reasons that bring you to therapy. We will then agree on a therapy plan that will feel most appropriate for your needs, often for once weekly sessions and in an open-ended or fixed-term way.