Jenny Allaybeu

Mental Health Nurse

Jenny is a Registered Mental Health Nurse with 10 years’ experience working with children, young people and adults struggling with mental health and emotional difficulties. Jenny obtained her professional qualification from Kings College London and has completed specialist post-qualification studies in child and adolescent mental health from the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

Most of Jenny’s clinical experience involves working with individuals and families in mental health crises, she draws on different approaches to help people recover and to get where they want to be in their lives. Jenny is trained in and applies psychodynamic approaches, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) skills and systemic principles in my work with individuals and families. Jenny has experience working with a variety of difficulties and presentations, including neuro-diversity such as ADHD and ASD.

Jenny’s therapeutic style is warm and relational; Jenny takes the view that building a trusting therapeutic relationship is essential to therapy. Jenny works collaboratively with the young person and their family to figure out what help they need. When Jenny first meets a young person and their family, they think together about what has brought them to therapy, talk about some of their experiences and think together about their hopes for change.

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.