Beverley Lester

I am currently accepting new clients 

I qualified as an integrative psychotherapist over 25 years ago and since then I have focussed on offering psychotherapy both within private practice and mental health charities. I love sharing my skills and experience with trainee therapists and have spent many years as a tutor in both integrative and psychodynamic training institutes. I am also a clinical supervisor and enjoy and value supporting both trainee and experienced therapists both in group and individual settings. Before the pandemic I had only offered in-person sessions, but in having to retreat to a life behind the screen for those pandemic months, I discovered that it was possible to continue meaningful connection even when not in the same room. My learning was that while many of us were keen to return to an in-person life, there are also some of us that prefer online zoom sessions and I continue to offer both ways of meeting, for open-ended or short term work.

I work with the complexities of being human, which draws attention to, amongst many other experiences, those of depression, anxiety, panic attacks, relationship disappointments and negative patterns, identity problems of cultural, spiritual or sexual nature, divorce, bereavement, trans generational trauma, intergenerational trauma, sexual abuse, disordered eating. You are welcome to contact me for an exploratory chat and perhaps a first session to find out more about what I offer and what work we might do together. 

Prior to training as a psychotherapist and counsellor I had a career in publishing as a writer and editor for international organisations in the UK, Israel and South Africa.