Maria Amorim

Clinical Psychologist

Maria Amorim is a Clinical Psychologist with over 15 years’ experience working in adult mental health, in a variety of clinical and research contexts, such as secure services, private practice, community services, or higher education institutions.

Maria is experienced in working with clients from different cultural backgrounds, in the provision of evidence-based psychological therapies, tailored to each client’s needs, on a wide range of difficulties related to depression, anxiety, trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, personality disorders, eating disorders, work-related stress and burnout, behaviour management difficulties, emotional dysregulation, and relationship issues.

Maria’s training comprises various therapeutic approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Schema Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. In addition to her clinical work, Maria also provides clinical supervision, training and takes part in research projects.

Maria is also supporting the clinic’s adult ADHD pathway, bringing an evidence-based approach to helping clients navigate the unique challenges associated with this condition, focusing on empowering individuals to manage symptoms and the challenges these present to their daily lives through a combination of cognitive-behavioural therapy and coaching techniques.

Maria provides therapy both in English and in Portuguese.

Dr Elena Touroni

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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.