Dr Hannah Potticary

Clinical Psychologist

Dr Potticary is a Clinical Psychologist working with adults in both the NHS and private practice. Dr Potticary obtained an undergraduate degree in Psychology at University of Westminster, with first class honours, followed by an MSc in Clinical Neuropsychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. Dr Potticary completed the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Alongside her private work, Dr Potticary provides psychological therapy to individuals with a diagnosis of cancer, in the NHS. Prior to this, Dr Potticary worked at The Royal London Hospital’s Major Trauma Centre, providing trauma-informed psychological support to patients who had sustained life-threatening polytraumatic injuries following a traumatic event.

Dr Potticary supports clients to commit to meaningful behaviours in their lives and act in valued direction, even in the presence of difficult and painful experiences. Dr Potticary believes in the importance of adopting a compassionate and person-centred approach, meeting clients where they are at and supporting them to reach their therapeutic goals.

Dr Potticary works with clients with a wide range of difficulties, including low mood, anxiety, work-related stress, burnout, trauma, low self-esteem, health anxiety, sleep difficulties and more. Dr Potticary is trained in several evidence-based therapeutic models and has particular affinities with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Narrative Therapy.

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.