OUR CLINICIANS
FLAVIA ANSALDO
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
Flavia is a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist trained at the British Psychotherapy Foundation and a full member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists. Alongside her private practice, Flavia works within NHS child and adolescent mental health services and has experience working with young people with a variety of emotional and behavioural difficulties, including anxiety, depression, eating disorders, self harm, attachment difficulties and neurodevelopmental assessment. Flavia has a special interest in working with developmental trauma, including bereavement and other significant losses, which are known to have an impact on the child as well as the family as a whole. Flavia also offers psychotherapeutic interventions to parents and carers, with the view to support them in their parenting role and in their understanding of their young person’s emotional needs, in the context of the wider family relational dynamics. Alongside her clinical practice, Flavia has a keen interest in research and she completed a doctorate in Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck University. Before training as a child psychotherapist, Flavia worked for a number of years in children's mental health charities, with a particular focus on research, infant mental health and early intervention.
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Flavia works in English and Italian in North London
JOSH HOLMES
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
Josh is a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and is a full member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists. He works in an NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, and in private practice. He has extensive experience working with a wide range of mental health difficulties in all ages of children and young people. He also worked in a specialist Eating Disorder Service for four years. Josh previously completed a PhD focussing on psychoanalytic approaches to researching adolescent depression. Alongside his clinical work, he regularly teaches for psychotherapy organisations and universities.
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Josh works in English and Spanish in East Hertfordshire
MARIA PAPADIMA
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
Maria is a qualified Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and a full member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists. She works in an NHS (CAMHS) adolescent team in North London, specialising in work with adolescents and their families. She has an interest in working with adolescents with a variety of difficulties, ranging from depression, anxiety, school phobia, autism, to more complex difficulties such as risk taking behaviours or psychotic breakdowns. Previously, Maria worked in a Generic CAMHS team, a Looked After Children Team, and also in the voluntary sector. In addition to her clinical work, Maria teaches and supervises in her field, with a focus on her areas of interest, trauma and adolescent development.
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Maria works in English and Greek and is based in Golders Green
BEN STAMBLER
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
Ben is a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist trained at the British Psychotherapy Foundation and is a full member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists. He has worked in a number of inpatient and outpatient child and adolescent mental health services within the NHS as well as family services and specialist under 5's services in the charitable sector. Alongside his private work, he currently works within a NHS child and adolescent mental health service and teaches on the Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology MSc course at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and UCL. Ben has worked for several years with a wide variety of childhood and adolescent difficulties including depression, self-harm, anxiety, neuro-developmental assessment, selective mutism and developmental disorder.
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Ben works in English and is based in Kensal Rise
ALEX VOLOVISKY
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
Alex is a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist with over 15 years experience of working therapeutically with children, young people and families. His experience comes from working in NHS CAMHS services, local authority teams, charities, state and independent schools and with private clients. He completed a doctoral level training in Psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy at the British Psychotherapy Foundation and holds an MSc in Psychoanalytic Theory and a PgDip in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology. He is a full member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists and is fully insured and DBS checked.
Alex is experienced in treating a wide range of emotional, behavioural and mental health difficulties, such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders, self-harm and attachment difficulties. In addition to brief, medium and long-term therapy, Alex can provide additional support such as consultation and state of mind assessments. Throughout his career Alex has offered teaching, training and consultation to a wide range of professionals. Alex is particularly interested in working with parents and with parents and children together.
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Alex works in English and Spanish and is based in Denmark Hill (Camberwell)