Cassandra Govender

Clinical Psychologist

Cassandra is a clinical psychologist who completed her undergraduate and postgraduate clinical psychology training at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Following this, she worked independently in various psychology settings such as university lecturing, private practice, corporate wellness and mental health advocacy. From here, she joined Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without borders) as a Mental Health Supervisor for the Migrant Project.  

Ms Govender adapts the therapeutic approach to individual presentations, needs and goals working to develop a safe space for communication and healing.  She is primarily psychodynamic by training, but also integrates Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), mentalisation and mindfulness principles into her work. 

Cassandra has extensive experience working with adolescents, adults, couples and families from diverse cultures, ethnicities and backgrounds.  She has supported a range of psychological difficulties including anxiety, depression, eating disorders, physical expressions of psychological distress, emotional regulation difficulties, interpersonal and relational difficulties, and psychosis. 

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.


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.