David Lion
About me
I am a highly qualified integrative psychotherapist and counsellor with a wide range of clinical and life experience. After a successful career in the City and running my own company, I trained at Regent’s University London and in the NHS at Guy's hospital. I am now in private practice in Kensington working with adults and young people.
As an integrative psychodynamic therapist, I am able to draw on different ways of working that are specifically suited to my clients. I explore with them their thoughts and emotions, their problems and difficulties. My aim is to help them resolve these problems and difficulties with understanding and warmth, to help alleviate pain and distress and enable them to bring about change and move forward with their lives.
I offer sessions in-person, online and by telephone with flexibility to accommodate my clients' needs.
Training, qualifications & experience
MA, PGDip, ADip, MBACP, UKCP
I trained and qualified at Regent's University London and in the NHS at Guy's hospital with a Post Graduate Diploma and Masters degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy and then an Advanced Diploma in Integrative (ADIP) Psychotherapy. I have over 10 years experience working individually with clients.
Member organisations
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.
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
BACP is one of the UK’s largest professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy. Therapists registered with the Association fall into a number of different membership categories such as Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP and Registered Member MBACP (Accred), each standing for different levels of training and experience. MBACP (Accred) and MBACP (Snr Accred) members have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by the Association.
Registered members can be found on the BACP Register, which was the first register to achieve Accredited Voluntary Register status issued by the Professional Standards Authority. Individual Members will have completed an appropriate counselling and/or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but will not appear on the BACP Register until they've progressed to Registered Member MBACP status.
All members are bound by a Code of Ethics & Practice and a Complaints Procedure. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
UK Council for Psychotherapy
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
Accredited Register Scheme
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.
Accredited Register Scheme
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
Self Development
LIfe Coaching
Therapies offered
Fees
EAP/Health Insurance Providers
Additional information
For an initial consultation, terms and fees, please contact me by phone or email.
Availability
I offer appointments on weekdays between 8am-7pm with the emphasis on flexibility to suit my clients' needs.
Further information
The initial session is an assessment when I ask you some questions which gives you the opportunity to talk about your concerns, for you to understand how I work and for you to see that you are comfortable and that we are best suited to work together.
I will then offer you regular sessions which normally last 50 minutes weekly. We decide whether the therapy would be suited to short-term, long-term or open-ended therapy.
As a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and a Registered Accredited Member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), I subscribe to their code of ethics, act in accordance with their code of practice and I am accountable to these institutions for my performance as a psychotherapist. My private practice is insured with the Zurich Insurance Group.
I am registered with many of the leading healthcare providers enabling clients with private insurance to claim back the fees for therapy.
