Charlene Taylor - Addiction/Trauma Specialist

About me

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Charlene has over 15 years’ experience working as a mental health professional and addiction specialist treating adults and young people. She works with both behavioural and substance issues.

She ran a small private Practice in London for 10 years, has worked in the NHS as an addictions practitioner, numerous rehabs including The Priory and The Nightingale Hosptial, Marylebone. She has worked in several male prisons in London and Sussex within the inpatient faculty, helped to set up and facilitate anger management groups. She also worked as a psychological therapist treating moderate mental health conditions during her time in prisons. She currently works with fire and rescue services and prison officers providing trauma focused interventions alongside her private practice.

Charlene uses a range of interventions including Gestalt, psychodynamic and attachment theory. She also provides EMDR therapy, solution focused therapy/coaching and psycho educational support around addictions for families and partners.

Charlene is highly qualified and experienced working in many different environments and multicultural settings. She is straight talking, caring, warm and empathic and believes in empowering and guiding her clients to reach into existing strengths and resources to enable a more fulfilling life.

She is a full registered member of BACP (British Association of Counselling) and FDAP (Federation of Drug & Alcohol Practitioners) and The Society for the Study of Addictions.