Dr Julie Ziesmann

Counselling Psychologist

Dr Julie Ziesmann is a Counselling Psychologist specialised in working with traumatic experiences, post-traumatic stress, and relationship problems. After completing her BSc (Hons) in Psychology, Dr Ziesmann completed a Psychotherapy and Counselling Certificate with an existential and humanistic focus at Regent’s University London. She completed her doctoral training in Counselling Psychology at the University of Roehampton.

Dr Ziesmann trained in person-centred, psychodynamic and cognitive-behaviour therapy. She thinks about her clients from a relational psychodynamic perspective, which emphasises the client’s relational patterns. Dr Ziesmann works pluralistically, meaning that she tailors her approach to the client and what they bring. Dr Ziesmann believes that the relationship between client and therapist is an important factor in therapeutic change.

Dr Ziesmann has experience across a wide range of settings and currently specialises in working with clients with complex emotional needs in an NHS community mental health team. Dr Ziesmann is experienced in working with trauma, different forms of abuse and the resulting trauma and traumatic stress as well as physical health difficulties. She works with clients who struggle with depression, anxiety, relationship issues, relationship loss and psychosexual problems as well as work-related difficulties.

Dr Elena Touroni

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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.