About me
Anh Doan MBACP
Psychotherapist | Couples/Indiviudal Counsellor | Clinical Supervisor | Head of Counselling
There are points in life where external success and internal experience no longer align.
From the outside, things may appear stable, even accomplished. Professionally, personally, or relationally, life may look “fine.” Yet internally there may be anxiety that persists without clear cause, relationships that feel increasingly strained, or a sense of disconnection that is difficult to articulate.
For over 15 years, Anh Doan has worked with individuals and couples who often occupy high-responsibility, high-performing environments—founders, professionals, creatives, and individuals in leadership roles—where clarity, discretion, and emotional steadiness are essential.
Her work is informed by extensive clinical experience across private practice, specialist trauma services, and leadership within mental health services. As a psychotherapist, couples counsellor, and clinical supervisor, she offers a space that is both psychologically attuned and professionally grounded.
Anh is particularly recognised for her specialist trauma work. She has many years of experience supporting survivors of childhood trauma, domestic abuse, exploitation, human trafficking, and modern slavery. A significant aspect of this work has involved supporting Vietnamese survivors of human trafficking and modern slavery in the UK, where cultural sensitivity, containment, and clinical precision are essential to the therapeutic process.
This background has shaped a deep understanding of how trauma affects not only emotional wellbeing, but also identity, decision-making, relationships, and the capacity to function under pressure.
Her clinical approach is thoughtful, steady, and precise. Clients often describe her as calm, highly attentive, and able to bring clarity to complex emotional experiences without overwhelming the individual. She works at depth, but with careful pacing—ensuring therapy remains contained, purposeful, and effective.
Anh works with a wide range of presentations, including:
Anxiety and panic presentations, including high-functioning anxiety
Persistent stress and emotional overwhelm
Depression and burnout
Low self-esteem and internal self-criticism
Childhood and complex trauma (C-PTSD)
Relationship and attachment difficulties
Family and relational dynamics
Grief, loss, and major life transitions
Cultural identity and belonging
Alongside her individual work, Anh is an experienced couples counsellor, supporting partners navigating breakdowns in communication, emotional distance, trust difficulties, affairs, and the pressures that modern professional life can place on intimate relationships. Her work helps couples move beyond reactive cycles into greater understanding, emotional regulation, and connection.
As Head of Counselling at Talking Counselling Ltd, Anh leads a carefully selected clinical team, including therapists working with clients from professional, creative, and leadership backgrounds. She oversees assessment, clinical matching, and service quality to ensure that each client is paired with a therapist whose expertise aligns precisely with their needs.
Anh also provides therapy in Vietnamese, offering culturally informed and linguistically sensitive support to Vietnamese-speaking clients across the UK and internationally.
Her work is grounded in a clear principle: meaningful psychological change requires both clinical depth and relational safety, particularly for individuals who are used to holding responsibility, making decisions under pressure, and performing at a high level.
Discreet. Clinically precise. Professionally grounded.
A therapeutic space for individuals and couples who require depth, clarity, and a highly attuned approach to psychological work.
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Training, qualifications & experience
Individual, Couples & Relationship Psychotherapy.
Couples psychotherapy, including relationship distress, attachment difficulties, and communication breakdown.
Family conflict resolution and relational dynamics work.
With extensive experience supporting qualified and trainee therapists.
Specialist in anxiety presentations, including panic disorder and high-functioning anxiety.
Trauma-informed clinician working with CBT-informed approaches to trauma
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
Integrative Counselling-Psychotherapy (relational, psychodynamic and humanistic foundations).
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).
Specialist clinical experience in Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD).
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). 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
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Supporting Vietnamese Human Trafficking/Modern-day Slavery Survivors — Specialist Trauma Practice
Among the most profound and humbling aspects of Anh Doan's clinical work is her dedicated support of Vietnamese human trafficking survivors — one of the most underserved and misunderstood client groups in the UK.
Drawing on both her clinical expertise and her own cultural understanding, Anh offers a rare combination that few therapists can provide: specialist trauma therapy delivered with genuine cultural competency. For survivors whose first language is Vietnamese, whose experiences of institutions and authority figures may be deeply fraught, and whose cultural context shapes every aspect of how distress is carried and expressed, this matters enormously.
Anh works with survivors navigating the complex, layered aftermath of trafficking — including:
Complex PTSD and trauma responses — hypervigilance, dissociation, emotional dysregulation, and intrusive memory
Isolation and displacement — the profound disorientation of being far from home, family, and everything familiar
Loss of identity and autonomy — rebuilding a sense of self after sustained exploitation and control
Mistrust of services and systems — working sensitively with clients who have every reason to be cautious
Shame, stigma, and silence — creating a space where survivors feel safe enough to speak, at whatever pace they need
Family separation and grief — the particular pain of displacement from cultural roots and loved ones
Re-integration and rebuilding — supporting survivors as they begin to reconstruct a life on their own terms
A Culturally Informed Approach
Language is not simply a practical consideration in this work — it is therapeutic in itself. Anh's ability to work bilingually, understanding the cultural nuances, family structures, and societal pressures that shape the Vietnamese experience, means her clients are not simply heard — they are truly understood.
This is specialist work that demands not only clinical skill, but profound patience, cultural humility, and an unwavering commitment to the dignity of every person who walks through the door.
Anh brings all of this — and 15 years of hard-won clinical experience — to every session.
Collaboration & Referrals
Anh works collaboratively with specialist charity organisations, social services, governement agency, immigration and refugee support networks to ensure her clients receive holistic, coordinated care. Referrals from statutory and voluntary sector partners are welcome.
This work is close to Anh's heart — and it shows in every session.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£50.00 - £250.00
Additional information
Initial Assessment £50 | 1 hour
Before beginning therapy, we start with a dedicated one-hour assessment. This is a chance to explore what has brought you here, understand your goals, and begin shaping a personalised plan for our work together. I will tell you more about my approach and the style of therapy I offer — and most importantly, we will get a sense of whether the working relationship feels right.
Because in therapy, that connection matters above everything else.
Individual Therapy
Trainee Counsellor
£50 per session (50 minutes)
Anh Doan and Qualified Team— Qualified Psychotherapist
£125 per session (50 minutes)
Couples Therapy
Trainee Couples/Relationship Counsellor
£125 per session (50 minutes)
Anh Doan — Qualified Couples Relationship Psychotherapist
£250 per session (50 minutes)
Session Information
All sessions are held online weekly at the same time every week via secure video call.
48 hours' notice required for cancellations
A Note From Anh
"Our initial assessment is about getting to know you and understanding what you need. We will set a clear goal, discuss how we work together, and make sure everything feels right before we begin. A good therapeutic relationship is the foundation of everything."
— Anh Doan, Head of Counselling, Talking Counselling Ltd
When I work
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Further information
THE FIELD | WELLBEING For those who understand that true performance — in the saddle and in life — begins from within
The Quiet Authority of Anh Doan
How one London psychotherapist is changing lives — one honest conversation at a time.
There is a particular kind of resilience that the equestrian world understands better than most. The willingness to get back up. The discipline to show up, day after day, regardless of what the previous session brought. The ability to present a composed exterior whilst navigating, beneath the surface, something altogether more complex.
It is a world, in other words, that knows a great deal about carrying on. And rather less, perhaps, about putting things down.
This is precisely where Anh Doan comes in. A Practice Built on Fifteen Years of Genuine Expertise
Anh Doan is not the kind of therapist who arrived at this work by accident. With over 15 years of clinical experience as a qualified psychotherapist, couples counsellor, and clinical supervisor — shaped by years of practice in the rigorous Harley Street tradition — she brings to her work something that no training programme alone can manufacture: the quiet, earned authority of someone who has sat with hundreds of people at their most vulnerable, and helped them find their way through.
Her specialisms read like a map of the modern interior life. Anxiety that hums beneath every surface. Depression that makes even the most familiar landscape feel foreign. Childhood trauma that resurfaces, uninvited, in adult relationships. Family conflict that runs along fault lines so old that nobody can quite remember where they began. Relationship difficulties that leave both partners — however committed, however capable — feeling profoundly alone.
And yet what distinguishes Anh's practice is not simply the breadth of what she treats. It is the quality of how she treats it.
Congruence as a Clinical Philosophy
In therapeutic terms, congruence refers to the alignment between a therapist's inner experience and their outward expression — the absence of performance, the presence of genuine human contact. It is, in the view of the person-centred tradition that underpins Anh's work, not merely a desirable quality. It is the very engine of change.
Anh embodies this with a rare naturalness. Warm without being familiar. Direct without being cold. She meets each client — whether an individual navigating the wreckage of a difficult childhood, a couple sitting on opposite sides of an invisible wall, or a high-achieving professional who has finally admitted that capability alone is not enough — with the same quality of unhurried, undivided, genuinely human presence.
In a world increasingly populated by curated wellness and performative self-improvement, this is — quietly, powerfully — rather radical.
"Our working relationship needs to be right," she has said. "That matters above everything else. A good therapeutic relationship is the foundation of everything."
It is a statement of philosophy as much as practice. And it is one that her clients, across fifteen years and hundreds of sessions, have found to be entirely, life-changingly true.
The Work of Lasting Change
What Anh offers is not a quick fix. It is not a wellness retreat, a weekend workshop, or a rebranded self-help programme. It is the slower, deeper, more demanding work of genuine transformation — the kind that changes not just how a person feels on a given Tuesday morning, but how they move through the world.
Her integrative approach draws on the full breadth of evidence-based practice: person-centred therapy, trauma-informed care, Transactional Analysis, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and attachment theory. For couples, she brings the clinical precision of the Gottman Method and the relational depth of Emotionally Focused Therapy, alongside the luminous insights of Esther Perel into desire, distance, and what keeps intimate partnerships alive.
But what her clients most consistently report is something that no theoretical framework quite captures. It is the experience of being, perhaps for the first time, truly heard. Of having the patterns that have quietly governed their lives — the people-pleasing, the anxiety, the self-abandonment, the inherited family scripts — named, understood, and gently, firmly, released.
The impact is not incremental. It is, for many, the difference between a life half-lived and a life fully inhabited.
Autonomy, Congruence, and the Better Self
Central to Anh's philosophy is a concept that the equestrian world will recognise instinctively: autonomy. The sense of agency. Of being, genuinely and consistently, the author of one's own life.
For many of her clients — people who have spent years accommodating the needs of others, shrinking to fit, managing their emotional lives in private whilst presenting a seamless surface to the world — this is the most transformative shift of all. Not simply feeling better. But becoming, in some essential way, more fully themselves.
This is what Anh means when she speaks of congruence: the closing of the gap between the person one presents and the person one actually is. Between the life one is living, and the life one genuinely wants. Between the relationship one is enduring, and the connection one deserves.
It is slow work. It is honest work. It requires courage from the client and genuine skill from the therapist. And in Anh Doan's hands, it changes lives.
Specialist Work — Where Few Others Go
Among the most remarkable dimensions of Anh's practice is her dedicated work with Vietnamese human trafficking survivors — a client group carrying some of the most complex, layered trauma that clinical practice encounters. Complex PTSD. Profound isolation and displacement. The near-total dismantling of identity, autonomy, and trust.
Here, Anh's clinical expertise is matched by something equally rare: genuine cultural competency. Working bilingually, with a deep understanding of the cultural nuances, family structures, and social contexts that shape the Vietnamese experience, she offers her clients not merely professional support but the profound relief of being understood in full.
It is, by any measure, exceptional work. Conducted with exceptional care.
Talking Counselling — Excellence, Delivered Online
As Head of Counselling at Talking Counselling Ltd, Anh leads a hand-picked team of qualified, accredited therapists offering individually matched online therapy to clients across the UK and internationally. All sessions take place via secure, confidential video call — accessible from home, from the yard, from wherever life finds you.
For a world that has always understood the value of the right coach, the right trainer, the right mentor — the right therapist, it turns out, is no different.
To Begin
Initial assessment £50. Individual therapy from £125. Couples therapy from £250.
Fully online. Confidential. UK-wide and international.
📞 07960 333 256 🌐 www.talkingcounselling.co.uk
All enquiries handled with complete discretion.
