David Levy

To introduce myself – I’m a counsellor specialising in working with ADHD clients and the challenges which come with navigating diagnosis, whether that be the emotional impact, the difficulty in reframing your past, present and future, and the difficult and often drawn-out experience of waiting for assessment, assessment itself, diagnosis, treatment, and medication. I am diagnosed combined-type ADHD and found it enormously beneficial to my work. 

Trained in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, my practice has developed to emphasise the relationship between therapist and client to create a safe and understanding environment free from judgement, in which your presenting issues can be explored and better understood. My training allows me to work with ADHD and non-ADHD clients alike, and I work extensively with clients with anxiety, depression, relationship issues, self-esteem, addiction, and repeating patterns of behaviour you’d like to change. 

In thousands of hours across individual sessions, group sessions, and running my own ADHD-specialist website, I have developed an effective way of working with ADHD people which doesn’t pathologise the condition, and considers their entire selves rather than working symptomatically. My guiding principle is that by addressing the cause, the lived experience is subsequently altered. I endeavour to work in a way which does not pathologise any protected characteristic such as sexuality, race, religion, disability, or gender identity or expression.

In response to client demand, I have begun offering limited engagement couples counselling, designed to help foster suitable communication between neurodiverse couples through psychoeducation, mediation, and the establishment of structures which offer a platform for couples going forward.

In addition to my counselling work, I am currently writing a book about the emotional experience of adult ADHD diagnosis, and I can be found talking about the condition in numerous magazine articles and podcasts. Outside of my client work, I edit and publish my own mental health magazine ‘The Frame’, and spend my spare time cooking and walking my dog Oakleigh. 

I work from my home in Whetstone, N20 and offer sessions five days a week either in-person or online via Zoom, Skype, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams. My standard fee for sessions is £85, payable by bank transfer, credit or debit card, or Apple or Google Pay.

My standard fee is £85 per hour, but some concessionary rates are available.

I charge £85for an initial assessment and discussions about subsequent fees make up part of the initial assessment process, and are set for the duration of the work.