Dr. Maura Abdelall CPsychol, Chartered Counselling Psychologist

About me

Psychotherapy is a good place to start if you are feeling angry, helpless, stressed, confused and want to change this. Therapy is also a way to become more self aware and develop an inner sense of acceptance, reducing the self destructive behaviours one may hold.There is much research that has found psychotherapy to be helpful, enabling individuals to change their unhelpful ways of thinking, behaving and therefore feeling better able to cope with things in life.

In my work, establishing a nurturing and trusting relationship with my clients is important as I believe that it is fundamental to the effectivenes of therapy. My therapeutic work is aimed at providing a safe and trusting therapeutic space in which the client feels able to explore and process deep hidden emotions. The aim of therapy is to arrive at a deeper understanding of oneself and subsequently change, but also acceptance of one self.

I use a combination of Humanistic, Psychodynamic and CBT theories to guide my clinical practice. Therapy is tailored according to each person’s difficulty. Selecting the therapy modality is discussed at the assessment stage, as each person is individual in their presenting difficult and how they wish to work through things.

If you are experiencing anxiety, depression, difficulties in your relationships and feel you would like to speak to someone about this, feel free to contact me for an informal conversation. I work with individuals experiencing a variety of difficulties, including: general anxiety, depression, panic, worry, OCD, relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, stress and sleep difficulties.

My practice is located in South Wimbledon, easy to get to by public transport. It’s 2 min walk from South Wimbledon northern line underground station. It’s 5 mins bus ride from Wimbledon. Trains from London Waterloo to Wimbledon take approximately 20 mins.