About me
A very warm welcome to private Integrative psychotherapy and counselling with Carolina.
SPECIALISING IN
* Anxiety * Depression * Low self-esteem * Relationship difficulties * ADHD * Overactive nervous system * Bereavement * Work-related Stress * Burnout * Family issues * PTSD * CTPSD * Anger * Adult Trauma * Childhood Trauma * Addictions * Neurodivergence * Pre and post surgery * Identity, meaning and life transitions
I work with women’s health, men’s health, couples, students, and families in person from my private practice in the Surrey Hills, London, and online worldwide.
PSYCHOTHERAPY & PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC COUNSELLING
I am an MSc-qualified, BACP-accredited integrative psychotherapist, offering bespoke psychotherapy, psychotherapeutic counselling, and coaching tailored to your unique needs. Whether you are seeking long-term psychotherapy, short-term counselling (minimum 12 sessions), or a one-off single-session therapy, I provide a confidential, compassionate, and thoughtful space to explore your emotions, patterns of behaviour, relationships, and the complexities of life. I work with both personal and professional challenges, whether you are healing from the past, navigating the present, or preparing for what lies ahead.
It’s part of being human facing challenges, but sometimes these can feel overwhelming. Painful or distressing life events can prompt us to question deeply held beliefs, reassess our habitual responses, and consider new ways of being. Whether you’re navigating chronic anxiety, severe depression, emotional pain, destructive relationship patterns, complex trauma, physical pain, or significant life transitions, therapy with me offers a compassionate, confidential, and supportive alliance, grounded in empathy, trust, clinical expertise, and a nuanced understanding of human behaviour and its complexities.
We don’t get to choose our genetic or developmental beginnings, which can make the path of self-exploration challenging and intricate. But research shows that seeking professional therapy can significantly enhance the chances of emotional recovery and growth. Therapy can be a powerful, life-affirming experience, one that helps bring unconscious patterns into awareness, overcome relational or emotional struggles, and unlock your potential to live a fuller, more meaningful life.
INTEGRATIVE THERAPY APPROACH
My integrative approach allows me to work with your presenting issues in a way that’s most helpful to you and your understanding of your relational world. I help you create new possibilities and make different choices that can improve both your mental and physical well-being. Together, we’ll develop strategies to manage and work through your symptoms, regulate your nervous system, gain insight into the root causes of your difficulties, and strengthen your emotional foundations. This holistic process will support you in feeling more empowered, fulfilled, and at ease in your life, so you can thrive both personally and professionally
My relational therapeutic style is shaped by extensive experience in mental health, health and wellbeing, psychology, the corporate sector, academia, and high-performing industries. I have a strong capacity to build meaningful therapeutic relationships, where you feel truly understood and supported, combined with intellectual rigour, clinical expertise, and a wide-ranging knowledge of psychotherapy that’s tailored to your individual needs.
Together, we can explore your current and past experiences, find new ways of being in the present, and build practical coping strategies to support your psychological well-being. Think of it as exploring the ocean’s depths while also riding the waves. This process speaks to the whole of you, mind, body, and soul. It's not just about managing symptoms but about enhancing your overall well-being and empowering you to take an active role in your healing journey.
Integrative therapy is like an eclectic repertoire of therapeutic approaches. I draw on a broad range of evidence-based clinical methods and psychological therapies, chosen to suit your specific needs, personality, symptoms, and preferences. My integrative style is relational and empowering, with a strong emphasis on Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Attachment-based, and body-oriented approaches. I draw from trauma-informed neurobiological regulation methods, including the Polyvagal Theory, Transactional Analysis (TA), Existential theory, Mindfulness, Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT), Somatic and Interpersonal Neurobiology.
WHAT RESULTS CAN YOU EXPECT?
The therapeutic process is a deeply personal and transformative journey that is unique for each of us. It requires dedication, effort, consistency, and a willingness to explore one's inner world, including thoughts, feelings, emotions, behaviours, and experiences. While therapy does not offer guaranteed outcomes, it can open the door to positive changes, such as:
- Develop calmer ways of relating to oneself
- Explore current life challenges and past experiences while building resilience for the future
- Gain insight into patterns that may be contributing to emotional or relational difficulties
- Recognise triggers behind unhelpful thoughts, feelings, or behaviours
- Develop greater awareness of how emotional and neurobiological processes influence your experience
- Learn to observe thoughts and feelings with greater perspective
- Experiment with new ways of responding to situations and relationships
- Work towards a greater sense of balance across different areas of life
- Challenge limiting beliefs or patterns that may have developed earlier in life
- Clarify personal values and goals that feel meaningful to you
- Develop deeper self-understanding and self-acceptance
- Approach life’s challenges with greater openness and flexibility
The changes you experience will be shaped by your needs and circumstances. This can include a noticeable reduction in symptoms, a stronger sense of self, more freedom in how you meet challenges, and the confidence to move forward with clarity and purpose.
Please visit my website above for more information about me or my practice. I very much look forward to meeting you.
Training, qualifications & experience
INTERESTS, EDUCATION & TRAINING
In my free time, I love being active and outdoors. Whether it’s the calm focus of sailing, the exhilaration of skiing, or the simplicity of a long walk or mountain hike, I find movement and nature deeply restorative. I also enjoy Pilates and yoga for balance and strength, as well as photography and writing.
I bring more than 25 years' experience supporting people through adversity, helping them to understand themselves more deeply and create meaningful, lasting change. I am an MSc-qualified integrative psychotherapist and clinical psychotherapeutic counsellor, trained at the prestigious Metanoia Institute in London. I am BACP-accredited with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, a qualified clinical supervisor trained with CSTD London, and a Transformational Coach trained with Animas London. I am also listed on the Counselling Directory.
I hold several professional qualifications (see below), including an MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy, a Clinical Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counselling, a First Class BA (Hons) in Business, a PGCE in Secondary Education, and diplomas in Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD), Psychometric Testing, and Neurodiversity.
Alongside my psychotherapy practice, I am an experienced ICF-accredited transformational coach, executive leadership coach, executive career coach, existential coach, mindfulness coach, and neurodiversity coach, supporting both neurodivergent and neurotypical clients.
I also support people with health conditions or disabilities to start, stay in, or return to work through the government's Access to Work (AtW) scheme.
I regularly undertake continuing professional development through seminars, workshops, and advanced training, with particular interests in interpersonal neurobiology, trauma-informed approaches, Third Wave CBT, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT), and contemporary integrative psychotherapy.
I am fully insured, receive fortnightly clinical supervision, and practise in accordance with the BACP Ethical Framework.
I’m a member of the:
- Accredited Member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (MBACP accred)
- Counselling Directory
- The European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS)
- European Mentor and Coaching Council (EMCC)
I hold yearly updated Enhanced DBS - Disclosure and Barring Service checks. I evaluate my work through feedback from clients and using Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluations (CORE). Independent analysis of my work shows that over 95% of my clients showed reliable and clinically significant improvement during their counselling with me.
QUALIFICATIONS AND CPD
- MSc Integrative Psychotherapy, Metanoia Institute & Middlesex University, London
- Clinical Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counselling, Metanoia Institute, London
- Certificate in Supervision, Centre of Supervision and Team Development, CSTD London
- Accredited Diploma in Transformational Coaching (ICF), Animas London
- Clinical Application of the Polyvagal Theory, Deb Dana
- Trauma Release Exercises, TRE
- The Essentials of Psychiatry
- BA (Hons) in Business, First Class
- Certificate in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBST)
- Certificate in Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method Couples Therapy Levels 1&2
- Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) Levels 1, 2 & 3
- CCET Psychometric Testing (incl General Intelligence, IQ, giftedness, neurodiversity and SpLD), PET, British Psychological Society
- Post Graduate Certificate in Secondary Education (PGCE)
- Post Graduate Diploma in SpLD and Neurodiversity
- Certificate in Existential Coaching
- Certificate in Somatic Coaching
- Certificate in Mindfulness Coaching
- Keeping university students safe: self-harm and suicidal ideation
- Ask Me training, domestic abuse
- Psychiatric diagnoses training
- Safeguarding adults and children
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
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.
The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations. In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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.
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
Other areas of counselling I work with.
I treat a wide range of mental health conditions and challenges, including but not limited to:
- Nervous system regulation and interpersonal neurobiology
- Anxiety disorders: panic, phobias, social anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), health anxiety, Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Trauma
- Mood disorders: Depression, Post-Natal Depression, low mood, Bipolar Disorder
- Personality disorders: EUPD, BPD, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Avoidant Personality Disorder
- Low self-esteem and confidence difficulties
- Stress and worry
- Bereavement, loss and grief
- Existential crisis
- Relationship difficulties
- Childhood trauma
- Separation & Divorce
- Parenting; family issues; adoption; estrangement; conflict
- Neurodiversity: dyslexia, dyspraxia (DCD), dysgraphia, dyscalculia, ADHD with or without hyperactivity (ADD), ASD, Sensory Processing Disorders
- Life transitions
- Quarter-life and Mid-life crisis
- Panic attacks
- Confidence crisis
I also support people with health conditions or disabilities to start, stay in, or return to work through the government-funded Access to Work (AtW) scheme.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£95.00 per session
Additional information
Free 15-minute video introductory consultation via Zoom
Individual therapy or counselling - 50 minutes - £95
Single Session Therapy (one-off session)
Organisations and company funded therapy and counselling
Access to Work (AtW) Support - supporting people with health conditions or disabilities to start, stay in, or return to work through the government-funded Access to Work scheme.
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To arrange an initial appointment, please email me at carolina@talking-therapy.uk (email is preferred, as I'll be in sessions and unavailable to take calls). I aim to reply within 24 hours. Thank you.
I look forward to speaking with you.
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Further information
I am well-versed in working with clients around the world, including London, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Japan, San Francisco, New York, Canada, Ibiza, Spain, Argentina, Germany, and the Netherlands.
