Anthony Ambrose
Registered Member MBACP
Contact information
- Phone number
- 07905 117718
Therapist - London
Features
Availability
PLEASE NOTE: I currently have limited space - late afternoon on Wed or Thurs only (4:45-5pm start).
For info: my current practice days are Monday, Wednesday and Thursday with appointments starting between 11am and 5pm.
I currently offer online sessions only - usually via zoom, and plan to continue on this basis, so can offer UK wide sessions (if online therapy seems suitable/appropriate after initial assessment) - please see session arrangements below.
About me and my therapy practice
I am an Associate Psychotherapist of the Gestalt Centre, London NW1 (UKCP registered 1996-present).
In my practice I offer a therapeutic relationship that affirms creative renewal, trauma recovery, integration and wholeness - promoting self-compassion and clarity, safe grounding and embodiment. By affirming the stability and felt sense of safety needed to emerge from life-stresses and trauma, we can anchor more fully in the present, become better able to relate to and regulate distress, and identify life / relational needs.
This kind of therapeutic process can help to cultivate greater clarity, peace, self-connection and acceptance, creative renewal, fulfilment and joy in life. My relational approach is especially informed by the work of clinicians/authors in the fields of attachment, relational neuroscience and trauma over the last 20-30 years - including Janina Fisher, Bessel van der Kolk, Stephen Porges, Bonnie Badenoch, Allan Schore, Richard Schwartz (originator of Internal Family Systems - I completed a 15 day level 1 IFS training in 2016), Sue Johnson, Daniel Siegel, Tara Brach, Louis Cozolino and Peter Levine, among others.
Other biography: Past associate tutor, University of Surrey Psychology Dept (2010-2018), where I facilitated personal/professional development groups for Counselling Psychology doctoral students.
Past group facilitator/supervisor with the Gestalt Centre London.
Counselling: Counsellor (1990-present). Reg. MBACP. Co-founder (1999) and counsellor (1999-2004) with The Cancer Counselling Trust. Counsellor - CancerBackup charity (1997-1999). Placement bereavement counsellor Trinity Hospice, Clapham (1990-93).
Practice description
I now work online (usually via zoom) so can offer UK wide sessions when this feels therapeutically appropriate/suitable, and where sufficient speed/stability of internet connection is available.
Further practice details are in the 'first session' section below.
My first session
I first ask clients to complete an initial assessment / consent form, to provide relevant background information for possible therapy/counselling, for risk assessment, and to gauge potential compatibility for working together, and that my training/experience seem a suitable/good match for client therapeutic issues/needs. The form includes GP details and contact consent, without which I am unable to offer sessions. I would only propose contacting your GP after discussing this with you (except in an emergency) - in order to uphold duty of care, for risk assessment, and possible referral to/liaison with other/NHS services. Full details are on the form.
After you complete the initial questionnaire, I assess suitability for online work, and potential compatibility of your needs with my background/experience. If appropriate I arrange 1-3 initial assessment sessions, to further gauge therapeutic needs/issues and compatibility for working together. At initial sessions we can discuss further what needs/issues you wish to explore, and I further assess suitability for online sessions (or possible onward/specialist referral).
If we agree to continue I arrange a follow-up series of 6-8 sessions to begin working together, better assess/clarify needs, and review at session 5-6 re continuation (usually on an ongoing weekly basis, with periodic reviews as needed), or to bring sessions to a close, with possible onward referral/resource suggestions.
I also provide a GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations) form which gives details/terms of all personal client data that I hold, and for clients to provide data retention consent, without which I am unable to proceed with sessions - in order to meet UK GDPR legal requirements.
What I can help with
Anxiety, Bereavement, Cultural issues, Depression, Identity issues, Life coaching, Loss, Personal development, Post-traumatic stress, Self esteem, Spirituality, Stress, Trauma
Types of therapy
Brief therapy, Cognitive, Gestalt, Humanistic, Integrative, Phenomenological, Psychodynamic, Relational, Systemic
Clients I work with
Adults, Trainee
How I deliver therapy
Online counselling, Telephone counselling