About me
I’m a UKCP-accredited psychoanalytic psychotherapist with a background in forensic psychology.
I offer long-term, weekly psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adults navigating emotional challenges, relationship patterns, and the deeper questions that shape their inner lives.
My work is for those who are high-functioning on the outside, but internally tired, overwhelmed by anxiety, emptiness, people-pleasing, or repeating the same painful patterns in relationships. Perhaps you’ve been in therapy before, but felt it only scratched the surface. In my practice, we go to the root.
I will help you understand the unconscious patterns that formed early in life, often around difficult attachment or copying strategies you no longer need. Together, we make sense of your internal world and create space for a more authentic, grounded self to emerge.
Specialisations:
- Relationship issues
- Specialised in ADHD
- Loneliness and codependency
- PTSD, depression and anxiety
- Stress management
- Childhood trauma (developmental trauma)
- Attachment and separation difficulties
- Identity exploration, relationship dynamics, and interpersonal issues
- Employment and financial difficulties
- Pre- and Post-natal depression, challenges of new parenthood
- Fertility problems, coping with miscarriages
- Gender and sexuality concerns
- Grief and loss
- Anger management and emotional difficulties
- Migration, acculturation, and deportation issues
- Marital problems and relationship struggles
- Personal growth and improving relationships
Sessions:
- Online psychotherapy sessions;
- Weekly sessions required (no fortnightly or monthly options)
- One to four sessions per week for depth psychotherapy.
Training, qualifications & experience
Clinical Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Analytical Psychology, UKCP-accredited
BSc Forensic Psychology
Accreditations and Experience:
- Professional Member of the Association for Group and Individual Psychotherapy (AGIP), London
- Professional Member of UKCP (UK Council for Psychotherapy)
- Professional Member of CPJA (Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis College)
- BSc in Forensic Psychology
- Worked in NHS, Employee Assistance Programs (EAP), and UK prisons
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.
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
£70.00 - £120.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
My fees are offered on a sliding scale ranging from £70 to £120, depending on individual circumstances and needs. For more information about the fees, please refer to my website: siminasimion.com.
When I work
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Further information
Before I ever sat in the therapist’s chair, I spent a decade in my own analysis, often three or four times a week. That experience shaped me more than any book or lecture. It taught me that real change happens in a steady relationship where you can think with someone when you feel you can’t, and where hope can be held for you when it feels out of reach.
I began this work early in life. At fourteen, I volunteered in children’s homes in Romania and by sixteen, I was supporting young people on weekends. In London, I trained in forensic psychology and joined the Youth Offending Team while still at university. Later, I worked in both male and female UK prisons for eight years.
Alongside this, I’ve worked in the NHS, GP surgeries and Employee Assistance Programmes, supporting professionals under pressure, parents and students. Across these settings, one theme has stayed constant: a respect for complexity and the care it deserves.
That same spirit guides my private practice today: a place to think, reflect and find meaning, even when life feels uncertain.
