Hayley Tuffin

Psychotherapist

Hayley has over 25 years of experience working with individuals and families, including children, teenagers, and adults. More recently, she has also begun working with older adults and life transitions. She welcomes clients of all ages and backgrounds. Hayley has experience supporting same-sex couples, post-adoption families, and those navigating mental or physical health challenges. She has worked across Social Care, the NHS, and the private sector.

Trained in EMDR and mindfulness, Hayley considers whether these approaches may be helpful in clinical sessions. She is accredited by the UKCP as a systemic family and couple psychotherapist and is also registered with AFT, the regulatory body for family therapy.

Hayley treats a range of relationship challenges for couples and families. This includes concerns about intimacy, communication difficulties, and unresolved issues from the past.

For families, Hayley treats parenting concerns, such as worries about a child’s emotions, behavior, or performance at school. She also supports families navigating neurodiversity-related challenges, helping them understand the impact and develop effective strategies. Additionally, Hayley treats parents adjusting to new roles as stepparents and those experiencing difficulties related to divorce and separation.

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.