Dr Elena De Giacomi

Counselling Psychologist

Dr Elena De Giacomi is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist registered with the Health and Care Professionals Council and British Psychological Society. She completed her MSc in Experimental Psychology at the University of Sussex and her doctoral training at City University, London. She has held posts as a Counselling Psychologist in the NHS, private healthcare and third sector organisations. She currently works part-time for a London NHS Trust in a psychology service that supports individuals experiencing complex mental health difficulties.

As an integrative practitioner, she draws on a broad range of therapeutic models to inform her work. These include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy, mindfulness-based approaches and psychodynamic psychotherapy. She adapts her approach according to her clients’ unique needs and preferences, whist also keeping in mind the evidence base for their presenting difficulties. She believes that establishing a trusting and supportive therapeutic relationship plays a key role in facilitating recovery and growth.

Dr De Giacomi has experience of supporting clients with a wide range of mild to severe mental health difficulties as well as interpersonal difficulties and adjustment to major life changes. Her special interests include depression, trauma and psychosexual difficulties. She offers psychological therapy to adults, adolescents, and couples.

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.