Dr Maria Bermeo

Counselling Psychologist

Dr Maria Bermeo is a counselling psychologist, who specialises in working with children, adolescents and young adults. Having obtained her BA in Family Sciences at the University of Maryland in the USA and her MA in Developmental Sciences in Birkbeck University in London, she went on to complete her Doctorate in Counselling Psychology at the University of East London. Following several years of practice in diverse setting such as inpatient sites and charities, she is currently working as a counselling psychologist in a London NHS Trust.  

Maria is trained in various evidence-based practices, such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) as well as psychodynamic therapy.

While she specialises in working with young clients, she has worked with clients of all ages to promote mental health throughout the life span. Maria has significant experience in helping clients struggling with depression, relationship and interpersonal difficulties, anxiety, OCD, emotional dysregulation, self-harm, complex trauma, personality disorders, neurodevelopmental difficulties, domestic violence, and disordered eating. 

Maria can provide therapy in both English and Spanish.

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.