Antonia Carding-Wright 

Schools and Education Lead

Antonia is an experienced mental health nurse with over 15 years of experience working in the NHS across a variety of roles. Her clinical work has primarily been in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), specialising in high-risk adolescents across diverse environments, including inpatient adolescent therapeutic communities, community CAMHS, schools, residential settings, and intensive support teams. She has additional training in Systemic Practice, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, and Mentalization-Based Therapy.

Antonia is passionate about working with individuals and their wider systems, whether that be a child within a family, school, or community, or an employee within a workplace. She values the importance of environments in sustaining good mental health.

She has extensive experience as a senior leader in the NHS, having served as a clinical leader, professional lead for nursing, and, for the past four years, as the Associate Director of Nursing. Antonia understands both the joys and challenges of senior leadership in high-paced, stressful environments. She has led large teams across complex systems and is experienced in working with internal and external stakeholders, commissioners, and regulatory bodies. In addition to her clinical and leadership expertise, she has a strong background in clinical supervision, reflective practice, and workforce well-being. She is also a qualified Professional Nurse Advocate (PNA).

Dr Elena Touroni

May 19, 2022 No Comments

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.

She is trained in several specialist therapeutic approaches such as Schema Therapy for individuals and couples, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness-based approaches and Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT).

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. 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.

Dr Touroni has a keen interest in developing preventative approaches for psychological well-being and has been involved in the co-creation of bespoke wellness retreats for transformative change for the past 5 years. She is the founder and one of two directors of The Chelsea Psychology Clinic.