Alexander Ross

How Can Therapy help?

You may be facing difficulties that are affecting your work or straining important relationships. Perhaps you feel anxious, low, irritable, ashamed, or unsure of yourself. You might be finding it harder to cope than usual, or feeling stuck in patterns you don’t fully understand.

​Struggling on your own can feel isolating. It can be difficult to see a way forward.

​Therapy offers a space to slow down and think. In the short term, it can help you feel more stable and supported. Over time, it can help you understand and work through the deeper issues driving stress or distress, leading to lasting change.

​The people I work with not only experience relief from the difficulties that bring them to therapy, but also develop a stronger, more confident sense of who they are. They become more effective at work and better able to build and sustain meaningful relationships.

What is Therapy About?

I specialise in psychodynamic (also known as psychoanalytic) psychotherapy. This approach works in depth with unconscious patterns that lie outside our immediate awareness.

​Often, present difficulties are shaped by earlier experiences, long-standing relationship dynamics, or demanding work environments. Psychodynamic therapy helps you understand these patterns so that you are no longer driven by them without choice.

​This approach can be particularly helpful for long-term or recurring difficulties.

Training, qualifications & experience

I have specific training and experience to support you to:

• Process a crisis from my work as a psychology lead in an NHS crisis service

• Manage the challenges of working in healthcare and other high pressure environments having practised as a medical doctor

• Gain understanding around intercultural issues related to race, class, faith, gender, sexuality and disability having trained in intercultural psychotherapy

• Grieve effectively enabling you to process and work through bereavement

• Tackle difficulties managing anger especially supporting many men to move from anger and aggressiveness to be able to thrive in work and relationships

• Grow through a spiritual crisis and challenging meditation experiences as an experienced meditator of 15 years, teaching and writing on the topic

• Work through gambling and gaming addiction

• Process childhood or more recent sexual assault, domestic violence or other abuse

• Get your life back on track towards thriving if struggling with self-injury or suicidality.

I have worked in mental health in the NHS, forensic services, the charity sector and higher education for 14 years.

In addition to my private practice in London Bridge, I work as a senior psychotherapist in the NHS as the psychological professional lead for a London borough's community service.

I trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy at the Tavistock and within the NHS before this working as a medical doctor, qualifying in 2012.

​I am registered with The British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC), with the Tavistock Society of Practitioners and The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

I am an independent researcher most recently publishing a book called Meditation for Psychotherapists, run courses on the subject and lecture in psychotherapy up to masters level.

​I have had many years of psychotherapy myself, both for personal and professional development. I understand that starting therapy can feel daunting — especially when deciding who to see and what kind of therapy might suit you.

​I offer a free initial call so we can think together about what brings you to therapy, answer any questions you may have, and get a sense of whether this feels like the right fit.

We can arrange a consultation together which consists of two consecutive sessions. It's a chance for us to map out what is bringing you to therapy, for us to get a feel of what it's like to work together and to think about what support might be most helpful for you at this time.