About me
I’m an integrative psychotherapist with over 20 years’ experience, beginning in the NHS. I’m accredited with the UKCP and BACP, and I work with individuals and couples from my consulting room at 37 Queen Anne Street, just off Harley Street in Marylebone, and online.
People come to me with anxiety, depression, loss, relationship difficulties, low self-worth, and times of change or uncertainty. My work draws on psychodynamic, existential and transpersonal traditions, and on Heart and Mind, my own model, which uses breath and body awareness to help you separate the critical mind from the essence of who you are, so you can witness your thoughts rather than be caught up in them.
Sessions are collaborative, confidential and paced by you. We meet weekly for 50 minutes, beginning with an initial consultation: a chance to talk, ask questions and see whether working together feels right. I also offer clinical supervision for therapists, and therapy and mentoring for university students.
You can read more about me and how I work at www.emmadashwoodpsychotherapy.com
Training, qualifications & experience
- Postgraduate Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy, CCPE
- Master’s in Transpersonal Counselling and Psychotherapy, CCPE
- Specialist couples therapy training, Tavistock Relationships, including psychosexual therapy, anger, and affairs
- Certificate in Supervision in Psychotherapy, Metanoia Institute
Existential therapy training - Supervision training with Harley Therapy
- Honorary psychotherapist in an NHS adult mental health team
- Accredited member of UKCP and BACP
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.
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.
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.
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Further information
My consulting room is on the second floor at 37 Queen Anne Street in Marylebone, just off Harley Street. It’s a quiet, private space in a calm and confidential setting, within easy walking distance of Oxford Circus, Bond Street and Regent’s Park stations.
I also offer sessions online, and you’re welcome to combine the two if that suits your life and schedule better. I’m flexible about what works for you.
Sessions last 50 minutes and usually take place weekly at a regular time, which gives the work a steady, reliable rhythm. Therapy can be short or long term, depending on what you need, and we review how things are going together as we go.
We begin with an initial consultation, a chance to talk about what has brought you to therapy, ask any questions, and see whether working together feels right, with no obligation to continue.
