Dr Nicole Hudson

Clinical Psychologist

Dr Nicole Hudson completed her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at The University of Leicester following a MSc in Forensic Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is an experienced Clinical Psychologist who also leads a specialist service in a Central London NHS Trust alongside her work with The Chelsea Psychology Clinic.

Dr Hudson has extensive experience working with a range of difficulties including anxiety, low mood, trauma, emotional and relational difficulties and self-harming behaviour. She enjoys working with a range of ages including children, young people and adults.

Dr Hudson uses integrative approaches in her work and has specialist training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Family based treatment (FBT) and compassion focused therapy (CFT). She includes systemic and narrative approaches and enjoys being creative in sessions. Her special interests include working with individuals with ADHD, autism and supporting families who are struggling with eating disorders.

Dr Hudson also has experience of working within organisational development teams to support staff wellbeing, team cohesion and increase psychological safety. This has developed her keen interest in enhancing these areas through delivering bespoke psychological interventions.

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.