David Lion
Email meAbout me
I am an Integrative Psychotherapist and Counsellor with a wide range of clinical and life experience. After a 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 now work in private practice with adults and young people in Kensington & Chelsea and Earls Court.
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.
As well as face-to-face sessions at my practices, I can arrange home-visits, Skype therapy and/or telephone sessions to accomodate the needs of busy professionals or people from different time zones.
Training, qualifications & experience
MA, PGDip, ADip, MBACP, UKCP
I trained and qualified at Regent's University London with a Post Graduate Diploma and Masters degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy and then an Advanced Diploma in Integrative (ADIP) Psychotherapy.
Areas of counselling I deal with
- Abortion
- Abuse
- Addiction(s)
- ADHD
- Affairs and betrayals
- Alcoholism
- Anger management
- Anorexia nervosa
- Antisocial personality disorder
- Anxiety
- Asperger's syndrome
- Attachment disorder
- Avoidant personality disorder
- Bereavement
- Binge-eating disorder
- Bipolar disorder
- Body dysmorphic disorder
- Borderline personality disorder
- Bulimia nervosa
- Bullying
- Cancer
- Career counselling
- Chronic fatigue syndrome/ME
- Dementia
- Dependent personality disorder
- Depression
- Disabilities
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug abuse
- Eating disorders
- Emotional abuse
- Family issues
- Feeling sad
- Gambling
- Gender dysphoria
- Generalised anxiety disorder
- Hearing voices
- Histrionic personality disorder
- Hoarding
- Infertility
- Internet addiction
- Learning difficulties
- Loneliness
- Low self-confidence
- Low self-esteem
- Miscarriage
- Narcissistic personality disorder
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
- Panic disorder
- Paranoid personality disorder
- Passive aggressive behaviour
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Physical abuse
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Postnatal depression
- Pregnancy and birth
- Redundancy
- Relationship problems
- Schizoid personality disorder
- Schizotypal personality disorder
- Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Separation and divorce
- Sex addiction
- Sex problems
- Sexual abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Suicidal thoughts
- Trauma
- Work-related stress
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Self Development
LIfe Coaching
Therapies offered
Fees
For an initial consultation, terms and fees, please contact me by phone or email.
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 Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and 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.
Maps & Directions
London, W8 6UG
Type of session
| Online counselling: | Yes |
| Telephone counselling: | Yes |
| Face to face counselling: | Yes |
| Home visits: | No |
Practical details
| Sign language: | No |
| Other languages: | None |
Accessibility
| Wheelchair access: | Unspecified |
Availability
Weekdays, to suit client as well as possible
Types of client
| Young people |
| Adults |
| Older adults |
| Couples |
