About me
My values as an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist:
Our early attachment relationships will have an impact on our psychological health and well-being.
The therapeutic relationship can enable the development of an earned-secure attachment which will have a positive impact on psychological health and well-being.
Psychotherapy is provided with respect, warmth, readiness to interact appropriately and relate with healthy boundaries, to support the exploration of relationships in a healthy way.
Attachment relationships are also shaped in the real world and impacted upon by poverty, discrimination and social inequality. The impact of the wider social world may form part of the therapy.
Those who have had their survival strategies and life experiences silenced will be supported in a healthy way within a caring therapeutic relationship.
Attachment-based psychotherapy is inclusive, promote access, welcome diversity, endeavours to be authentic and strive for excellence.
Training, qualifications & experience
My name is Errol McCarthy and I am an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist.
I trained at the prestigious Bowlby Centre based in London N5 1RN.
I have been in private practice since 2015.
I am fully registered and accredited by the UK Council for Psychotherapy.
I work with individuals who find relationships challenging and find themselves feeling frustrated and suffering alone.
Attachment-based psychotherapy sets out to repair the capacity to be aware of feelings and states of mind in a regulating way, providing emotional support in a healthy way.
The support is there to enable you to enjoy life and to live it more fully.
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.

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.

Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
generalised anxiety disorder, anxiety, panic attacks, family issues, feeling sad, depression, phobias, separation and divorce, affairs and betrayals, bipolar disorder, seasonal affective disorder (sad), dialectical behavioural therapy (dbt), cognitive analytic therapy (cat), cognitive and behavioural therapies, behavioural therapy, cognitive therapy, postnatal depression, bereavement, addiction, low self-esteem, psychodynamic therapy, emotional abuse, person-centred therapy, stress, low self-confidence, alcoholism, sex addiction, abuse, sexual abuse, psychoanalytic therapy, jungian therapy, depression and anxiety in children, psychoanalytical and psychodynamic, trauma, health anxiety, anger management, child related issues, binge-eating disorder, sex problems, eating disorders, suicidal thoughts, drug addiction, obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd), behaviour problems, borderline personality disorder, personality disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), loneliness, hoarding, integrative, anorexia nervosa, childhood bullying, domestic violence, bulimia nervosa, childhood bereavement, attachment disorder in children, separation anxiety, work-related stress, gambling, internet addiction, narcissistic personality disorder, existential therapy, sexuality, smoking, physical abuse, humanistic therapies, psychotherapy, reality therapy, self-harm.
Therapies offered
Fees
£40-70
Further information
I look forward to meeting in person/video call so we can discuss what is on your mind.
I appreciate how much courage it takes to ask for emotional support.
The support is there to enable you to enjoy life and to live it more fully.