Maria Antypa

Clinical Psychologist

Maria Antypa is a Clinical Psychologist with over 10 years of clinical experience in adult mental health in the UK.  Maria completed her professional training as a Clinical Psychologist in Greece while also completing additional training in the UK including an MSc in Health Psychology. She has worked in many different settings in both Greece and the Uk including primary care, inpatient, community, specialist mental health and physical health services. Maria has also held posts as Head of Psychology Department and Lead Psychologist in private inpatient mental health hospitals and has extensive experience of working in private practice.   

In her clinical practice, Maria uses an integrative approach, to better meet her clients’ needs. She is experienced in working with people from diverse backgrounds presenting with a range of difficulties such as work-related stress and burnout, depression, anxiety disorders, pain management, interpersonal difficulties, ADHD, autism, dementia, brain injury, trauma, psychosis, personality disorders and bipolar affective disorder.  

Maria’s therapy skills comprise of evidence-based psychological modalities, such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Schema Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Compassion-Focused Therapy and Mindfulness-based therapy. 

Her research interests are on psychological interventions for work-related stress and burnout and mindfulness-based approaches. Maria has acted as a specialist placement supervisor for doctoral Counselling Psychology trainees and has experience in supervising psychologists and other mental health professionals.  

Maria provides therapy both in English and Greek. 

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.


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.