Stella Trygoni

I am an experienced qualified Counsellor and Psychotherapist, with 20 years working with people going through challenging times in their lives. The focus of our work will be on helping you to understand yourself better and find more constructive ways to deal with the important issues or relationships in your life.

My experience is broad and I have worked amongst others with people suffering from anxiety and depression, abuse, bereavement and loss, neurodivergence, eating disorders, sexual issues, pregnancy and fertility and work related issues.

Counselling and psychotherapy can help when a person is struggling with life, relationships, work related issues or with more specific mental health concerns that can cause a great deal of psychological pain and last for long periods of time. Effective treatment can result in meaningful and lasting changes. I use a psychodynamic approach which means that the therapy focuses on unconscious processes that are manifested in a person's present behaviour. Counselling and psychotherapy aim to help a person gain insight and understanding of the influence of the past experiences on present behaviour and life choices.

I have also done training in CBT techniques, humanistic and existentialist therapy. Being informed by various psychological theories helps me adapt my practice to the best way to work with each person’s individual needs. I have a special interest in how traumatic experiences shape our thinking, behaviour and choices.

I offer once weekly psychotherapy to adults (16+), I generally see people at a regular time and sessions last for 50 minutes. You can see me for a short-term period to explore a specific problem that is troubling you, or we can work together with an open-ended contract that allows for a deeper exploration.