Dr Elena Touroni

Dr Elena TouroniDr 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.

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Dr Mat King

Dr Mat KingDr 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.

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Dr Alison Murfett

Dr Alison MurfettDr 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.

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Dr Farha Choudhary

Dr Farha ChoudharyDr 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.

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Dr Anna Saunders

Dr Anna SaundersDr 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.

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Dr Maxine King

Dr Maxine KingDr 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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The Chelsea  clinic of Maple Pschological Services

A room at our Chelsea Clinic

Personality Disorders

The word ‘personality’ refers to a collection of characteristics that make us an individual.

For most people, their personality allows them to function well in the world.

For some individuals though, parts of their personality might develop in such a way that makes it difficult for them to relate to other people and function well across a range of personal and social situations.

If you suffer from a personality disorder, then you are likely to have difficulties in making or sustaining relationships, controlling your feelings and your behaviour.

Often people with a personality disorder might also suffer from depression, eating disorders and engage in substance misuse as a way of coping with their difficulties.

For many years, individuals with personality disorders did not receive appropriate treatment but nowadays there is good evidence that a number of structured psychological therapies (such as dialectical behaviour therapy, schema therapy and cognitive-analytic therapy) can be greatly beneficial.