Dr Sara Morando

Consultant Psychiatrist

Dr Sara Morando is a Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry, with more than 10 years NHS experience. She has worked for 16 years across a variety of settings, including inpatient wards, community mental health teams, specialist eating disorder services, personality disorders services, and psychotherapy services, both in London and in Italy, where she trained as a doctor and then as a general adult psychiatrist. She is currently working as a Consultant Psychiatrist in an eating disorder service in London.

Dr Morando has a special interest in psychotherapy, eating disorders, complex trauma, personality disorders, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and autism assessment and treatment. She is also experienced in treating depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, psychosis. She is trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy, Mentalisation Based Therapy (MBT), MBT for families, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, and she is an accredited MBT supervisor. She is completing a PhD in Mental Health Sciences at UCL on mentalisation and eating disorders.

Dr Morando is offering private MBT supervision to NHS personality disorders services, eating disorders services and to independent therapists and institutions, nationally and internationally. She has offered consultation, supervision and training to community and inpatient NHS services, facilitated reflective practice groups and Balint groups for trainees and consultant psychiatrists. She has lectured medical students, psychiatry, and GP trainees on psychotherapy and management of personality disorders and eating disorders. She has lectured in the MSc on eating disorders at UCL.

By combining her clinical expertise with her broad psychotherapeutic skills and her warm, reflective, non-judgmental and collaborative attitude, she offers an evidence-based, person-centred, integrated and creative approach to patient care.

She offers consultation in English and Italian.

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.