Dr Riddhi Palmer

Clinical Psychologist

Dr Riddhi Prajapati completed her BSc in Neuroscience at King’s College London and Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology at the University of Nottingham. She was jointly awarded her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology by Coventry University and the University of Warwick. She has over 10 years of clinical experience working across the NHS in community and inpatient settings, as well as the third sector and private sector.

Alongside her clinical work, Dr Prajapati is a published author and visiting lecturer to doctorate training courses. She also offers supervision to psychologists and mentoring to aspiring and trainee psychologists from racially minoritised backgrounds, and consultation and training to staff working in community services.

Dr Prajapati integrates knowledge from a range of evidence-based models including Compassion-Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment therapy, Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Narrative Therapy. Her personal and professional experiences have shaped her passion for working with individuals in a way that values their lived experiences, social and cultural contexts, and embraces their layered identities through a non-pathological and trauma-informed lens.

Her work is also informed by community psychology, the Power Threat Meaning Framework and Internal Family Systems. Through her sessions, Dr Prajapati aims to offer a compassionate and respectful therapeutic space that enables individuals to build upon their own strengths and move towards a life of meaning and harmony.

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.