Alexander Gray

I currently have availability in-person at 10.30 on Tuesday mornings as well as online in the evenings.

I am a Transpersonal Integrative Psychotherapist, which means I adapt how I work with clients depending on their presentation, using a range of modalities. I aim to help my clients find a balance between mind, body and soul, reconnecting with their authentic self.

I work in private practice with adults at reCentre Health in Balham and in schools around Kingston with children and teens from aged 5+ as a Mental Health Clinician and Child Psychotherapist with Achieving for Children.

I have a particular interest and/or experience working with autism, anxiety, boarding school survival, depression, grief & loss, divorce, identity, sexuality and fantasies. I am comfortable with the uncomfortable and often hear the phrase, "I've never told anyone this before, but...".

NEW - PARENT CONSULTATIONS

As a Mental Health Clinician working in schools I am ideally placed to help parents unpick some of their child's behaviours at school as well as home, discuss what might be going on and how these difficulties relate to your own experiences of early life. These might include separation anxiety, challenging behaviour, meltdowns, disrupted sleep, friendship difficulties, sibling rivalry, poor learning or neurodiversity.

I start with a 20 minute call for you to give me a brief overview of what has brought you to seek help, and for me to explain a bit about how I work, where I am based, fees and expectations. Then we agree a starting date and move into face-to-face sessions.

I create a warm, safe environment to explore your material in a non-judgemental space. Much of the work begins as traditional talking therapy, going into detail about your situation and how it is effecting you.

We will naturally open up the sessions to explore how your material impacts your current relationships with family, friends and colleagues so that we can reflect on your early life and how that has moulded who you are today, as well as how you might learn from this to move forward.

I do not give advice or tell you what to do, rather we discuss your difficulties and discover various options, how you feel and what you might do to help yourself or those around you. I may challenge you to face your shadow, the parts of yourself that are hidden or shut off.

Oftentimes talking is not enough and so I use creative imagination techniques to listen to what your soul is trying to say, what your body is feeling, essentially finding a way to unravel what your mind cannot process or communicate.

Some of these practices are visualisations, healing through breath and sound, drawing and family trees to consider intergenerational trauma.

After our initial call I send through a document that needs completing to register you with the reCentre Health clinic and a form with details around confidentiality, payment terms and such. Once I have received this, and payment for the first session, I shall confirm you are booked in. The first session is usually spent quickly going over the agreement we have in place, getting used to the environment and setting the therapeutic container so that we can start on our journey through your material, together.