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Counselling & Psychotherapy Practice
North London
Burma Road Counselling & Psychotherapy Practice
50 Burma Road,
Stoke Newington, London N16 9BJ
Telephone: 020 7275 8002
Email: ginabarker@blueyonder.co.uk
Practice Manager: Gina Barker
The Burma Road Practice was founded in 1991 and over the years has evolved into a smoothly run organisation offering a range of counselling and psychotherapeutic services, from highly competent professionals, in an atmosphere of privacy and comfort.
It is located in a quiet residential street near Clissold Park.
The Practice is served by good transport links – four tube stations within a mile: an overground station at Canonbury; and numerous bus routes – 73, 141, 236, 341, 393, 476. Nearby street parking is on meters.
Here are some of the reasons why people have come to see a practitioner at the Burma Road Practice:
Very high stress levels, difficulty functioning in everyday life, maybe drinking too much.
Loss of a close relationship, through separation, divorce or death.
Conflict and tensions at work
Frightening panic or anxiety attacks, for no apparent reason.
Problems in relationship or in making a relationship
Post traumatic stress
Fertility issues: wanting to have a baby, considering IVF, regretting an abortion.
A general unhappiness or depression that won’t shift; a sense that life has more to offer
Finding a series of CBT sessions on the NHS helpful and wanting to go further.
Below is a list of the practitioners currently working at the Burma Road Practice, with some information about them and their work, and also their contact details. You can contact any of them directly for further information, or to make an appointment. We also have a number of Associates who work within a reasonable distance of the practice.
However if you are not sure what help you need, or what might be the best way forward, we can offer you an Assessment Interview. This takes up to 90 minutes, costs £65, and is usually conducted by our Practice Manager. It is an opportunity to talk about what is troubling you, and to explore some of your life history, guided by sensitive questioning. The aim is to enable us to give you our professional opinion as to the best course of action for you, given your psychological and emotional needs and also practical considerations.
The assessment may well lead to a recommendation of a referral to a counsellor or a psychotherapist, either inhouse or to one of our associates This would be someone who we think you could work well with, and who can, as near as we can determine, meet your practical circumstances.
It is of course your decision as to whether you take up the referral, and we cannot guarantee any outcome. Sometimes an assessment interview itself may feel like a sufficient help, and you may decide not to proceed further at this point in your life.
Alternatively, if we do not think that a referral is appropriate, we might make an alternative suggestion which we think will help you. Either way we will endeavour to give you a high quality professional service.
If you would like to make an appointment for an assessment interview, please email our practice manager Gina Barker at ginabarker@blueyonder.co.uk , or leave a message on 0207 275 8002, and she will get back to you as soon as possible.
All our counsellors and psychotherapists have membership and/or accreditation with the BACP (British Association for Counseling and Psychotherapy), the UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy) or ACAT (Association of Cognitive Analytic Therapy).
All abide by a professional code of conduct and have appropriate insurance. They come from a range of therapeutic backgrounds, from cognitive to psychoanalytic, humanistic to transpersonal.
Short or long term contracts are available.
Practitioners negotiate their own fees, which currently range from £35-£85 per session. We have Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Urdu and Malay speakers at the Practice.
If you are a qualified counsellor or psychotherapist and are looking for a place to practise please contact Gina Barker for details of our contracts and terms. We are always happy to talk to and meet with practitioners who may be able to add to the services and expertise which we already offer.
Currently we have practitioners with particular expertise in such areas as:
Addiction
Attachment
Bereavement
Bodywork
Couple therapy
Depression
The psycho-spiritual journey
Stress and trauma.
Several Burma Road Practice practitioners also offer professional supervision, mentoring and consultancy, for counsellors, psychotherapists, complementary therapists, healthcare practitioners and other professionals.
PRACTITIONERS:
Gina Barker UKCP reg.
Tel: 0207 275 8002
Email: ginabarker@blueyonder.co.uk
I am a founder member and practice manager of the Burma Road Practice, and I have a training background in transpersonal, humanistic and analytical counselling and psychotherapy. I have been in private practice for over 20 years, and I work with both individuals and couples.
I am also an experienced supervisor working with trainees and qualified counsellors and psychotherapists, and a registered member, training therapist and supervisor for The Bowlby Centre.
I am aware that it’s very difficult to describe precisely what I do in my clinical work, as it can vary according to your individual needs. However what I can say is that my intention is to create an environment and relationship in my consulting room which will help you to discover, to speak about, to make sense of what might be troubling you, on a conscious or an unconscious level.
Thereafter my intention is to work with you to map a way through your forest or out of your mire, so that your life can begin to feel more hopeful, purposeful, creative. Sometimes this can be quite a quick and easy process, and sometimes it can be longer and more difficult.
Mick Dunn MSc UKCP
Tel mobile: 07977 563218
Email: mick.dunn55@gmail.com
I am a UKCP registered psychotherapist, a member of BACP and have worked at the Burma Road Practice for over 8 years. I also work in the NHS and for a national mental health charity. I trained as an Integrative Psychotherapist at the Metanoia Institute in London. It is a therapeutic approach which encourages a person to increase their self understanding, to develop an awareness of a wider range of options, and to increase their ability to effect desired changes in their life.
I work with individuals with a wide variety of personal difficulties but particularly depression and anxiety and I have specialist experience of working with dependent and problematic behaviours. These include substance and alcohol abuse and also problem gambling.
I can provide a dedicated time and space for us to work where I will listen to your concerns and help you to explore your relationships with yourself, to others and to the world.
Su Fox UKCPreg, ITEC, MTI reg, CSTA reg.
Tel: 020 7275 8002
Email: sufox@blueyonder.co.uk
We live in challenging times. In order to meet what comes our way with equanimity, we need to live fully in our body, function well enough in the outside world, have a comfortable relationship with our inner world, with all its imperfections and joys, and have a connection to spirit, whatever that might mean. I work with all these aspects.
My qualifications? Over 20 years as a psychotherapist, with training in and experience of a wide range of approaches and no particular attachment to any of them, as a complementary therapist and energy worker, and many more years than that as an imperfect human being and spiritual seeker.
Specialist services
1. Trauma therapy
I am a registered EMDR practitioner. EMDR is a safe and effective way to work with trauma, producing results much more quickly than other therapies. Like CBT, it is one of the NICE approved psychological treatments.
2. Craniosacral therapy and somatic awareness
I use these very subtle forms of bodywork in conjunction with psychotherapy to facilitate body awareness, listen to body memory, and help the shift from high arousal stress and anxiety states to a calmer way of being.
3. Supervision and mentoring
I have a diploma in supervision from The Gestalt Centre and experience supervising practising counsellors and psychotherapists, as well as trainees and trainers, and practitioners and students of complementary therapy.
Denise Ielitro, M.Sc. BPS and UKCP registered.
Tel: 079035 90881
Email: dielitro@googlemail.com
I am a highly experienced and fully qualified psychotherapist. I offer short and long term counselling and psychotherapyduring the afternoon and evenings. I am a trained psychologist and adopt an attachment-based psychoanalytic approach.
I provide a secure and confidential service to people who are experiencing difficulties in their emotional life or who want to gain a better understanding of themselves and their relationships with others. My practice is open to people of all ages and all walks of life.
I have studied in London, Berlin and Rome and teach at the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology, Regents College, London, the Institute of Psychotherapy & Social Studies, London Metropolitan University, and the Schiller International University’s New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling. I offer supervision to trainee psychotherapists and counsellors.
Besides my private practice and teaching, I have worked for the NHS, MIND and GP Practices. My experience includes working with depression, addiction, eating disorders, self-harm, trauma, bereavement, stress and anxiety, sexuality, and self-development.
I believe therapy can make a significant and lasting difference to your life. It is especially important to work with someone who is understanding and non-judgemental, and who you can trust to work with you to find solutions to your issues.
Every person is different and everyone has their own unique story to tell. By working together we can remove the obstacles that block your way to living a more fulfilling life. My aim is to promote positive change and help you get in touch with your feelings and emotions and make better sense of your past and present.
Chuey Y Loh
Email: cyloh@btinternet.com
Website: www.chueylohpsychotherapy.co.uk
Core process psychotherapy is based on in-depth understanding of what it is to be human. It is also an enquiry into our existential processes and our human potential. The ‘core’ is that unconditional state inherent in all of us, a state that is potentially present in every moment. Core process is the movement from this inherent awareness or unconditional state, to the way we develop our personality and the shape of who we are.
Core process psychotherapy is humanistic, integrative, transpersonal and psychospiritual in its approach, with influences from reflections of the existential and phenomenological aspects.
The approach is a combination of Buddhist views and Western psychotherapeutic concepts, and it brings together a focus of a body-mind awareness, which helps to centre on our present experiences with openness, spaciousness, compassion and clarity.
I have worked for a number of years as a counsellor and psychotherapist in London. I am also a trainer with The Karuna Institute in Devon.
Dr Annie Nehmad
Tel: 07957232906
Email: annie_nehmad@yahoo.com
I am a therapist, supervisor and trainer in two approaches: cognitive analytic therapy and solution focused therapy. I work mainly within the NHS; I am at The Burma Road Practice only on Fridays from 1-5pm.
English and Spanish are my mother tongues. I am fluent in Portuguese and French, and speak reasonable Italian.
Cognitive analytic therapy is an integration of psychodynamic, cognitive and other ideas and methods. It is brief, focused, collaborative, effective and evidence-based.
CAT enables people to understand, recognize and change the problematic patterns they have been engaging in. It can work on specific problems and issues, as well as on the whole personality. It is useful for most problems and most people, including those with a diagnosis of ‘personality disorder’.
Solution focused therapy starts from what is working well for the client and builds on this. The therapist will ask clients how they would like themselves or their life to be, and will help them work towards this.
SFT is suitable for any type of person, and any type of problem. It may be particularly helpful for people who are unhappy with aspects of themselves, their relationships or their lives, but don’t want to have therapy – and also for people who have had a lot of therapy in the past without achieving significant changes.
I work with individuals, couples, and other combinations of people (e.g. father and son).
Egle Vera Reeves
Tel: 0778 6815519
Email: eglevera@hotmail.com
I trained as a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in Argentina, with a strong influence of Lacanian psychoanalysis.
I have extensive experience of working in multidisciplinary teams, both with children and adults. I have worked for many years with children with severe and combined diagnoses, and with their families too. I have also worked as a psychologist/psychoanalyst in preventative programs in schools, in shanty towns, in GP surgeries, and I have run therapeutic groups in a psychiatric hospital.
Currently I am a family support worker in Islington, and I have a private clinical practice working mainly with adults. My mother tongue is Spanish.
I am presently undertaking a doctorate in Counselling, Psychology and Psychotherapy at the Metanoia Institute - Middlesex University
Cathy Rostas
Tel: 0794 1325888
Email: cathyrostas@onetel.com
I am an experienced BACP accredited psychodynamic counsellor offering once-weekly counselling on a time-limited or open-ended basis. Each session lasts 50 minutes.
Psychodynamic counselling is a type of in-depth therapy that has a long and respected track record. I follow the notion that problems and distress in the present may be related to past experiences.
We all have a tendency to repeat patterns of behaviour, and even though we would like to change, we feel unable to.
Understanding these patterns can help you develop your own choices and way forward – to move from feeling a victim of circumstances to a feeling of having more control over your life.
Chris Shingler UKCP Reg.
Tel: 01728 688898
email: chris.shingler@virgin.net
I work in both London and Suffolk. My Suffolk practice is called Out of the forest as I live on the edge of Tunstall Forest and, more importantly, because the forest metaphor seems to describe the process of psychotherapy, which can help people to find a way through an apparent confusion of suffering, self doubt, unwanted behaviour patterns and loss of direction or meaning.
It is through understanding how we got to the lost place, by mourning what we have lost or suffered and by learning how to manage and accept our feelings and thoughts that we can open to new possibilities within ourselves.
In the psychotherapeutic relationship I aim to provide a space where you will be heard without judgement and encouraged to discover and express yourself. You will be supported and contained in that process and helped to understand how past experience impacts on your life now. Eventually therapy can enable you to find acceptance of yourself, greater freedom and fresh possibilities in your life.
Having formerly worked as a lecturer in further education, I have practised as a psychotherapist since 1991 and gained UKCP accreditation in 1993. I am a founder member of the Burma Road Practice, where I work on Monday afternoon and evening. I am based in my Suffolk practice, near Woodbridge, on the other days of the week.
My initial training was in psychosynthesis but my work has been influenced over time by other traditions: existentialist, attachment theory, and psychoanalytically informed approaches.
I have taught extensively on integrated counseling courses, worked as a therapist and supervisor in the field of drug rehabilitation and in young offenders’ institutions. I am currently a supervisor to counsellors and psychotherapists in private practice.
John Slade UKCP Reg
Email: john@eastendpsychotherapy.co.uk
Website: www.eastendpsychotherapy.co.uk
I am a skilled and experienced psychotherapist and counsellor.
I offer integrative and cognitive counselling and psychotherapy at The Burma Road Practice for depression, low self-esteem, low confidence, assertiveness skills, stress, anxiety, panic, anger management, work related issues, relationship problems and more.
I work with individuals and couples. My style is optimistic, sympathetic and interactive, focused towards positive change.
I have wide experience of working in private practice as well as within the NHS and the voluntary sector. I have been registered with the UKCP since 1993, as an integrative psychotherapist.
I believe that positive change and development, which is the business of therapy, comes through positive relationship in our external and internal life. We grow psychologically through accepting and connecting aspects of ourselves; we then feel more complete and confident about how to stand in relation to the world. We can improve our ability to recognise our thoughts and feelings and to act more positively.
In my development as a practitioner I have integrated and drawn influence from a number of principal theories and practices, notably psychoanalysis and psychodynamics, attachment theory, cognitive behavioural therapy, solution-focused brief therapy and person-centred counseling.
For more information please visit my eastendpsychotherapy website or contact me.
Kay Tromans
Tel: 07872 600 852
Email: ktromans@btinternet.com
I am a very experienced and friendly counsellor, and also a member BACP and CCC.
I work with men and women. My counseling experience includes issues with depression, anxiety, bereavement, eating disorders, panic attacks, relationship problems, addictive or destructive behaviour, sexuality issues, obsessive compulsive disorder, trauma and various other conditions.
I am also a trained bereavement counsellor and trained in working with eating disorders at Westminster Pastoral Foundation. Regular further training, workshops etc complement my humanistic and psychodynamic qualifications.
As well as my private counseling practice, I’ve worked at a counselling centre elsewhere in north London for many years, which has given me the opportunity to meet clients from every walk of life for both long and short term counselling. Above all I think I am approachable, helpful and easy to talk to.
For more details please call or email me.
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