About me
About me
Sasa Stojovic is a UKCP registered and accredited psychotherapist (Existential Analytic) with over ten years of clinical experience and shaped by an extensive eight-year training. Her approach is informed by psychodynamic and existential traditions. Working in private practice in London, Sasa generally provides open-ended therapy.
Sasa works with clients experiencing variations of suffering – from identifiable complaints to more diffuse and unknown confusions and conflicts. Sasa works together with the client to provide a therapeutic space that facilitates the client’s ability to explore their unresolved, deep rooted and primary core issues that have contributed to the manifestation of their current symptoms.
Centering on the experience of the client is crucial and consideration is given to the client’s psychological, psychosexual, historical and social contexts as well as the place they occupy in relation to the world.
Sasa believes that therapy provides a place for a therapeutic encounter where individual’s who feel displaced, alienated and frightened can begin to raise questions about the neglected and forgotten aspects in their lives.
Therapeutic orientation
Psychodynamic work
The psychodynamic framework stresses the importance of understanding that:
* there are factors outside of a person's awareness (unconscious thoughts, feelings and experiences) which influence thoughts and actions,
* the past shapes the present
Individuals often find themselves repeating and re-experiencing distressing relational dynamics or patterns of living and are often unaware of the factors that determine their emotions and behaviour. Because these factors are unconscious, the advice of friends and family, the reading of self-help books, as well as the most determined efforts will often fail to provide enough relief.
Psychodynamic treatment explores how these unconscious factors affect current relationships and patterns of thought, emotion and behaviour. Treatment traces theses patterns back to their historical origins, considers how they have developed over time, and helps the individual to be clearer about the unknown/unthought forces moving through them which in turn helps the individual to cope better with the realities of their current life situation.
Existentialism
Existentialism facilitates clients reflection on unescapable aspects of existence such as: finitude, mortality, death, and anxiety and opens up a way of approaching an acceptance of the affirmative possibilities of life in relation to the certainty and limits of death. Existentialism also situates the clients as beings in the word, as part of a greater social context.
Individuals increasingly find themselves faced with narrow cultural notions and prescriptions to “be happy” and with the rise of AI people are increasingly faced with fears of being made redundant which can work to undermine the value of human experience. Existentialism facilitates an examination of unescapable aspects of existence as well as the unprogrammable, centre of being, thus raising questions about living in which there is space for nuance, beauty, wonder as well as ambivalence, anxiety, frustration, suffering and disappointment.
Having been the associate editor at the European Journal for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Sasa is actively interested in continental philosophy, the history of psychoanalysis, research and developments in practice. With a background in the arts, Sasa understands the importance of living creatively, encountering the ambiguity, contradictions, ambivalence and beauty of life. In the past, Sasa worked at a bereavement charity providing emotional support to the bereaved.
Embracing the Therapeutic Encounter:
I hold the belief that therapy is a space for an inter-subjective, therapeutic encounter. It is where individuals who feel dislocated, estranged, marginalised, and apprehensive can begin the process of unveiling neglected and forgotten aspects of their lives. This exploration can lead to a deeper clarity and understanding of oneself and one's place in the world.
Starting Therapy
If you're considering therapy, the first step is to get in touch. We’ll arrange an initial consultation—an open, focused conversation where we can think together about what’s brought you here and whether it makes sense to continue. If it does, we’ll begin meeting weekly.
* I don’t offer brief introductory calls as therapy involves a deepening conversation.
Training, qualifications & experience
Experience & Academic Engagement
Over the past 13 years, I have worked with a wide range of clients within the public and private sector, engaging with issues including chronic anxiety, early trauma, relational difficulties, identity concerns, existential dislocation, sexuality. I currently work in private practice.
In addition to clinical work, I served as Assistant Editor of the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, a peer-reviewed academic journal recognised by the UKCP. My editorial role brought me into contact with a range of theoretical and clinical traditions, further deepening my engagement with contemporary psychotherapeutic discourse.
My thinking and practice strongly influenced by continental philosophy, particularly where it intersects with questions of human suffering, change, and the therapeutic relationship.
Qualifications
Masters of Science MSc (Dist), Counselling and Psychotherapy- University of Roehampton (accredited by UKCP AND UPCA)
Post Graduate Diploma, Counselling and Psychotherapy- University of Roehampton
Post Graduate Certificate, Counselling and Psychotherapy- University of Roehampton
Bachelor of Arts in Dramatic Arts (Hon) , University of Witwatersrand
Member organisations
Accredited Member of UKCP
Accredited Member of Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC)
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
Fees
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
We can discuss fees during the session or feel free to email and enquire
When I work
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I have in-person availability on Tuesdays.
Evening availability is limited.
I only work on a weekly basis and offer no fortnightly sessions.
Further information
I see clients for 50 minutes, once or twice weekly and generally on a long-term basis.