Dr Touroni is a Consultant Psychologist at Central London NHS specialist personality disorders service.
Special interests include relationship difficulties, personal development, work-related stress, depression, anxiety, issues of sexuality and addictions.
A founding partner of Maple Psychological Services and Clinic Director, she can offer therapy in English or Greek.
Dr King manages an NHS Specialist Eating Disorders Service in London.
He has worked in primary and secondary treatment settings working with people with anxiety, depression and panic attacks.
He has a special interest in anxiety, panic attacks, and obsessive compulsive disorder.
Dr King is a founding partner of Maple Psychological Services.
Dr Murfett is a Highly Specialist Psychologist within a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (NHS).
She has 10 years clinical experience working with adults, children, young people and their families with a broad range of behavioural and emotional disorders in both adult and child mental health settings.
Special interests include work with young people, school-related stress, anxiety, eating disorders, OCD and PTSD.
Dr Choudhary is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist working as a Specialist in a Personality Disorder Service in Central London and in a Community Mental Health Team based in Surrey.
She has been in clinical practice since 2004 working with individuals suffering from a broad spectrum of difficulties.
She obtained her BSc in Psychology at Royal Holloway University of London and her Practitioner Doctorate in Psychotherapeutic and Counselling Psychology from the University of Surrey.
Her special interests include anxiety, depression, phobias, personal development, identity issues, relationship and interpersonal difficulties and couple and family work.
Dr Anna Saunders is a clinical psychologist working in a specialist personality disorder service in central London for the NHS.
She has six years clinical experience working with individuals and groups with a wide range of difficulties.
Dr Saunders has been working for the NHS since 2002 in general adult, child, and older adult mental health services as well as specialist services for substance misuse, early psychosis and personality disorders.
She has specialist training in dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) as well as training in cognitive behaviour therapy.
Dr King is a Specialist Counselling Psychologist working in a London based NHS Community Mental Health Team and Primary Care Liaison Team for adults with mental health difficulties.
She has been in clinical practice in the NHS since 2004, working with individuals, groups and couples with a broad spectrum of emotional and behavioural difficulties from mild through to severe and complex.
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Below are some commonly asked questions, together with our answers.
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Maple offers a professional and ethical service of the highest standard. All the psychologists at Maple have extensive experience in working with a range of emotional difficulties and have either previously or currently hold highly specialists positions within the NHS.
This means that they are up to date with the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines and offer evidence-based treatments.
Most of the Maple psychologists have specialist training in innovative forms of psychological therapy which they have acquired post-qualification.
This allows them to offer clients high quality psychological therapy that is both evidence-based and tailored to the client’s individual needs.
Therapists’ fees vary a great deal depending on the therapist’s training, qualifications and years of experience.
All the Maple practitioners are Chartered Psychologists which means that they have doctoral level training in a range of psychological therapies and experience with a wide range of presenting difficulties.
Our training has lasted a minimum of seven years and most of our psychologists have trained for even longer. We receive consultation about our work from national and international experts in order to ensure that the therapy we offer is of the highest standard.
Other practitioners such as counsellors and/or psychotherapists most often do not have doctoral qualifications and their training might vary from months to years.
They also tend to be trained in one specific therapeutic approach, which means that they are less versatile in offering the most effective and suitable form of psychological therapy to address the client’s needs.
For this reason, counsellors and psychotherapists tend to charge less for their services.
The initial consultation lasts for approximately one hour and is an opportunity to discuss your current difficulties and for us to consider together how psychological therapy would be of help to you.
During the assessment, the psychologist will facilitate a discussion of the reasons that led you to seek psychological therapy but will also take a detailed family history in order to understand you in the context of your past and your life experiences.
Towards the end of the consultation, the psychologist will give you an indication of different ways you could work together and propose a therapeutic plan.
You can then make a decision at the time to attend for a number of sessions or you can go away and think about it and arrange another appointment subsequently.
In most cases, we would recommend that you initially come for 4-6 sessions to get a ‘taster’ of the therapy and see if it is helpful to you.
The duration of therapy varies greatly depending on the client’s presenting difficulties and their personal goals.
Some individuals choose to attend therapy for a very specific concern and often it is possible to work in a focused and short-term way with them.
In other instances, difficulties are deeply-rooted and might require long-term therapy.
During the assessment, your psychologist will give you an indication of the proposed duration of therapy on the basis of their understanding of your difficulties.
The therapeutic contract is always agreed jointly between client and therapist and so ultimately, you have the final say as to how long you would like to come to therapy for.
Yes, you can refer yourself.
You can do this either by phoning us on 0207 584 9513, sending an e-mail to help@maplepsychology.com, or via our contact form.
If you are claiming your treatment via your private healthcare provider, you might need a referral from a GP or Consultant Psychiatrist. In this case, we can give you information about the process involved via phone or e-mail.
Chartered Psychologists adhere to clear and strict guidelines on confidentiality.
The content, and any notes kept, remain private and confidential.
This will be discussed during the first appointment together with the circumstances where this may not apply.
No.
However, for ethical and professional reasons we ask for your GP’s details in case we need to contact them.
We would recommend that we inform your GP that you have met with a psychologist, though this is ultimately your choice and we would respect you decision.
Confidentiality will be explained during the first appointment.
No.
We prefer to use comfortable chairs and for the psychologist and client to be able to see each other during the session.
No.
Many of the people that come to therapy want to understand and change problems at work and in relationships.
Having a diagnosis or specific goal is not necessary, though during the first few appointments you and the psychologist will agree specific aims of the therapy.
Attending the first appointment does not commit you to attend sessions regularly on an ongoing basis.
You may wish to meet with a psychologist for one or two sessions before you decide.