Edward Sammons

I offer online appointments on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday via Zoom.

The online Coping Skills Group (DBT informed) meets on a Thursday evening 7:30pm to 9:30pm.

Hi, my name’s Ed, I’m a Therapist working online nationally and in London. I work with people experiencing a wide range of difficulties from many different backgrounds, everyone’s story and reason for coming to therapy are different but all are equal.

I offer both long and short term individual therapy and run an online Coping Skills Group which is informed by Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). Generally the length of therapy is something that we would discuss in our first session. In the case of longer term therapy we would frequently review as the therapy progresses to consider what work remains and when might it be appropriate to conclude therapy.

The model of therapy that I offer draws primarily on psychodynamic and person-centred theory, focusing on the therapeutic relationship while we work together. I also have knowledge of DBT, EMDR and Mindfulness and may draw on these should they be relevant to our work together.

Training & Experience

I currently work part time in private practice, while also continuing to work for the NHS in a Community Mental Health Team. As a Practitioner I belong to the BACP who are my professional body. I am a ‘Registered Member’, this means that I abide by their ethical framework while working as an Integrative Therapist and that I undertake frequent CPD and receive regular supervision to make sure my work is clinically safe.

Qualifications & Specialist Training

Professional Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Intensive Training

EMDR Therapy (Module 1 & 2)

Critical Incident Debriefing

Experience

Adult Psychotherapist & Counsellor - West London NHS Trust, providing both long term individual Psychotherapy & Dialectical Behaviour Therapy to individuals and groups.

Extensive experience working within an NHS Crisis Team and previously as a Mental Health Advisor on an NHS crisis line.

Prior to working within mental health services, I worked for an NHS Ambulance Service, both operationally and in control.

Specialisms and interests

• Self harm
  
• Suicidal ideation
  
• Complex Trauma & Dissociation
  
• LGBT+ / Queer / GSRD Affirmative Therapy
  
• Blue light Emergency Services – Police, Fire & Ambulance Service staff (including students)
  
• NHS Staff
  

CPD

As part of my on-going professional development I frequently attend courses and study days that are related to my practice, courses attended include:

• Interventions for Complex Trauma & Dissociation
  
• Gender, Sexual, and Relationship Diversity (Dr. Meg-John Barker)
  
• ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) for Depression and Anxiety (Dr Russ Harris)
• Online Therapy CPD Training: Telehealth for Mental Health Professionals
  
• Knowledge & Understanding Framework – Working with Personality Disorder: Raising Awareness
  
• Dissociation and Depersonalisation
  
• Traumatic Grief
  
• Advanced assessment and treatment opportunities for people with insomnia
  
• Working with Attachment and Trauma
  
• Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy 8 week course at the Oxford Mindfulness Centre (part of Oxford University)
  

The initial session, is slightly different from subsequent sessions because it involves some degree of assessment. It is a time for us to discuss your current difficulties and try to build a picture of what has brought you to therapy, during this session I will ask a range of questions to assess if therapy is currently the best option for you and how we might proceed should you feel that we are a good fit for either individual therapy or to join the Skills Group.

Fees

£40 Initial Assessment

£90 Online Individual Therapy (via Zoom)

£90-110 EMDR Therapy 50-75 minute session

£65 Online Coping Skills Group (via Zoom)

I offer online appointments on Monday, Thursday and Friday via Zoom.

The online Coping Skills Group (DBT informed) meets on a Thursday evening 7:30pm to 9:30pm.

Hi, my name’s Ed, I’m a Therapist working online nationally and in  London. I work with people experiencing a wide range of difficulties from many different backgrounds, everyone’s story and reason for coming to therapy are different but all are equal.

I offer both long and short term individual therapy and run an online Coping Skills Group which is informed by Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). Generally the length of therapy is something that we would discuss in our first session. In the case of longer term therapy we would frequently review as the therapy progresses to consider what work remains and when might it be appropriate to conclude therapy.

The model of therapy that I offer draws primarily on psychodynamic and person-centred theory, focusing on the therapeutic relationship while we work together. I also have knowledge of DBT, EMDR and Mindfulness and may draw on these should they be relevant to our work together.

Training & Experience

I currently work part time in private practice, while also continuing to work for the NHS in a Community Mental Health Team. As a Practitioner I belong to the BACP who are my professional body. I am a ‘Registered Member’, this means that I abide by their ethical framework while working as an Integrative Therapist and that I undertake frequent CPD and receive regular supervision to make sure my work is clinically safe.

Qualifications & Specialist Training

Professional Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Intensive Training

EMDR Therapy (Module 1 & 2)

Critical Incident Debriefing

Experience

Adult Psychotherapist & Counsellor - West London NHS Trust, providing both long term individual Psychotherapy & Dialectical Behaviour Therapy to individuals and groups.

Extensive experience working within an NHS Crisis Team and previously as a Mental Health Advisor on an NHS crisis line.

Prior to working within mental health services, I worked for an NHS Ambulance Service, both operationally and in control.

Specialisms and interests

• Self harm
  
• Suicidal ideation
  
• Complex Trauma & Dissociation
  
• LGBT+ / Queer / GSRD Affirmative Therapy
  
• Blue light Emergency Services – Police, Fire & Ambulance Service staff (including students)
  
• NHS Staff
  

CPD

As part of my on-going professional development I frequently attend courses and study days that are related to my practice, courses attended include:

• Interventions for Complex Trauma & Dissociation
• Gender, Sexual, and Relationship Diversity (Dr. Meg-John Barker)
• ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) for Depression and Anxiety (Dr Russ Harris)
• Online Therapy CPD Training: Telehealth for Mental Health Professionals
• Knowledge & Understanding Framework – Working with Personality Disorder: Raising Awareness
• Dissociation and Depersonalisation
• Traumatic Grief
• Advanced assessment and treatment opportunities for people with insomnia
• Working with Attachment and Trauma
• Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy 8 week course at the Oxford Mindfulness Centre (part of Oxford University)

The initial session, is slightly different from subsequent sessions because it involves some degree of assessment. It is a time for us to discuss your current difficulties and try to build a picture of what has brought you to therapy, during this session I will ask a range of questions to assess if therapy is currently the best option for you and how we might proceed should you feel that we are a good fit for either individual therapy or to join the Skills Group.

Fees

£40 Initial Assessment

£90 Online Individual Therapy (via Zoom)

£90-110 EMDR Therapy 50-75 minute session

£65 Online Coping Skills Group (via Zoom)

£60 (£30 for trainee therapists) per 1 hour of Individual Supervision via Zoom

My practice is currently full which means I do not have any availability to take on new Supervisee's at the moment.

Please check back here or my website if you would like to meet to discuss starting supervision as I will update these if and when I have vacancies come up.

If we have previously worked together please get in touch regardless so we can discuss this.

I practice online Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 9:30am to 6:30pm.

The model of supervision that I offer is based on the Seven Eyed model by Peter Hawkins and Robin Shohet. This model offers supervision from both relational and systemic perspectives by looking at seven different aspects:

1. Focusing on the clients and exploring what and how they present
   
2. Exploring the strategies and interventions used by the therapist when working with the client
   
3. Focussing on the relationship between the client and the supervisee
   
4. Focussing on the supervisee
   
5. Focussing on the supervisory relationship
   
6. The supervisor focussing on their own experience
   
7. Focusing on the wider context in which the work happens – considering the system the client finds themselves in
   

In terms of modalities that I work with and have experience of, my own initial training focused on Petruska Clarkson’s Five Relationship Model which incorporates a range of theories though significantly from both the person centred and psychodynamic approaches. Since qualifying I have undertaken further training specialising in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, and currently work as a Counsellor in a Secondary Care DBT Team in the NHS working both with individuals and groups. This work is primarily with people who have experienced complex trauma, and before that, five years in a crisis team providing crisis intervention. I also have an interest other models of therapy including Internal Family Systems, the work of Janina Fisher, Somatic interventions and EMDR.

Alongside my NHS work, I also have a thriving private practice and I’m happy to support newly qualified therapists as they begin their journey into private practice and support them to develop this area of their practice, both the exciting opportunities this might provide and also the challenges of working independently.

Please get in touch if you would like to arrange to meet so we can see how we might be able to work together.

Fees:

£60 (£30 for trainee therapists) per 1 hour of Individual Supervision (via Zoom)