Dr Victoria Brattan

Clinical Psychologist

Dr Victoria Brattan is a clinical psychologist who completed her professional doctorate at the University of Leeds. She began her psychology career in cognitive neuroscience, later deciding to retrain in clinical psychology. Dr Brattan has worked in both the NHS and in private practice, predominantly dividing her clinical time between neurorehabilitation and neurodevelopmental services.

Within the field of neurorehabilitation, Dr Brattan works closely with other disciplines (OTs, PTs and SLTs), providing guidance, consultation and individualised intervention following brain injury and for neurological conditions. Within neurodevelopmental services, Dr Brattan has experience in the assessment and diagnosis of ASD in both children and adults. She is fully trained in the use of specialist assessment tools including the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2) as well as the Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R). Additionally, she has experience of providing post-diagnostic support and intervention for individuals, groups and families. 

Dr Brattan is also more generally experienced in working with common mental health difficulties, including low self-confidence, self-worth and anxiety, as well as more enduring physical and mental health conditions. Dr Brattan draws upon various approaches to find the best fit for the individual, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Mindfulness-based approaches as well as Systemic Therapy for couples and family work. 

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.