Depression

5 mins

I cry everyday – what is wrong with me?

4 mins

Why can’t I control my emotions?

5 mins

No one gets me: what to do when you feel misunderstood

5 mins

Why do we self-sabotage?

5 mins

Is there something wrong with me?

6 mins

How to be kind to yourself and why it’s important

5 mins

“I feel like a failure in life”: how to stop the past from shaping the future

4 mins

Why do I feel like a failure? How to let go of self-limiting beliefs

5 mins

Why do I feel numb?

6 mins

Feeling down at Christmas: how to support your mental health over the holidays

5 mins

DBT for depression: what is Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and how can it help?

5 mins

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Dr Elena Touroni

Dr Elena Touroni is a skilled and experienced consultant psychologist with a track record of delivering high-quality services for individuals with all common emotional difficulties and those with a diagnosis of personality disorder. She is experienced in service design and delivery, the management of multi-disciplinary teams, organisational consultancy, and development and delivery of both national and bespoke training to providers in the statutory and non-statutory sector.


Having obtained a first degree in Psychology (BSc) at the American College of Greece, she completed her doctoral training at the University of Surrey. Dr Touroni is highly experienced in the assessment and treatment of depression, anxiety, substance misuse, personality disorder, eating disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, adjustment disorder and relationship difficulties. She works with both individuals and couples and can offer therapy in English and Greek.


Dr Touroni has held a variety of clinical and managerial positions including as Head of Service in the NHS. Further she has held academic positions for the University of Surrey and the Institute of Mental Health lecturing on specialist postgraduate Masters and Doctorate programmes.


She is trained in several specialist therapeutic approaches such as schema therapy, dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), mindfulness-based approaches and Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT). As well as holding a variety of NHS positions, Dr. Touroni is the co-founder of a private practice in Central London that has been a provider of psychological therapy for all common emotional difficulties including personality disorder since 2002. She is the founder and one of two directors of The Chelsea Psychology Clinic.