Roderick Brenninkmeijer
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About me
I offer integrative psychotherapy with a relational focus to individuals seeking to understand themselves more deeply, whether you are navigating anxiety, relationship difficulties, questions of identity, life transitions, or a sense that something feels stuck. My work draws on psychodynamic, existential, and humanistic frameworks, and I pay close attention to the relationship between us as it unfolds in the room. I am interested not just in your symptoms, but in the whole of your experience: your history, your patterns in relationships, and the meaning you make of your life.
I see clients in person at The Brackenbury Health Clinic in Hammersmith and The Greenhouse Therapy Rooms in Chiswick, and online. I work with adults from all walks of life. I have a particular interest in working with people in high-pressure professional environments, including business, the performing arts, and creative fields.
Training, qualifications & experience
I hold an MA in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh and an MSc in Organisational Psychology from the University of Exeter, alongside an MA in Psychotherapy and Counselling from Regent's University London School of Psychotherapy and Counselling. I am a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), and a Member of the British Psychological Society (BPS).
My clinical experience is varied. I work as a psychotherapist and counsellor at the Royal Academy of Music, where I see musicians and performers facing performance anxiety, perfectionism, questions of identity, and the strain of a highly competitive profession. I have also worked for a low-cost counselling service, seeing clients from a wide range of backgrounds and circumstances, and I draw on my years volunteering for the Samaritans, which shaped how I listen and how I sit with difficulty. Before retraining, I spent twenty years in international business and leadership, which gives me a first-hand understanding of the pressures of professional life.
Member organisations
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).
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Fees
£75.00 per session
Further information
Sessions are 50 minutes and conducted in person in West London. I work with adults only. I offer a free 20-minute initial consultation by phone or online - please do get in touch to arrange this.
