Venetia Willson

I currently have availability, please email me to discuss the possibility of working together.

I am a qualified existential psychotherapist working 1:1 with adults. I aim to work with you in a therapeutic relationship as a whole person rather than separate from the challenges which prompt you to seek support. I have a particular interest in identity as it evolves over a lifetime and is impacted by relationships and life events. The majority of my private clients work in professional services and creative industries and navigate their sense of self while reconciling a public and private life. I have experience in working with grief, trauma, abuse and clients bereaved by suicide, boarding school syndrome and family estrangement as well as other challenges (see below). In addition to my private practice I work for an NHS Trust in Hammersmith & Fulham. I am increasingly interested in ADHD as this diagnosis becomes more prevalent.

Existential therapy seeks to bring greater understanding to the client of their own experience of and meaning in life. Considering you as a whole person, your physical and emotional feelings, thoughts,  context and meaning hopefully brings to you, the client, more self-awareness and space to identify and articulate your needs and hopes in order better navigate yourself in your life. I seek to bring compassion, challenge and support to you and our sessions as we explore a way forward.

I offer online sessions and in person sessions in Hammersmith. My practice is located a short, 6 minute, walk from Hammersmith Tube Station.

Considering engaging in therapy can be daunting; there are so many unknowns. There are practicalities like where, when and cost to consider. There are also crucially important questions of whether you feel safe, can trust me and feel that we communicate well together. Please email me to arrange a time to speak and gather a sense of how we might communicate.

Ahead of a first session I offer a free 15 minute explorational conversation. If we decide to proceed, we would form a view together in the first 4 sessions of whether we wish to work in a time limited or open ended way.