My name is Pablo and I am an accredited Psychotherapist and
Counsellor through the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. My practice is based in Old Street (Ongea Ltd) and Kings
Cross (The Gestalt Centre) in central London and I offer afternoon and evening
appointments, Tuesday through Thursday.
My psychotherapy fee is £70 per session and I offer some
lower cost spaces.
My practice is LGBTQI affirmative and I support the social
model for disability.
As a therapist with over 20 years’ experience, I have
developed a pragmatic, active, transparent and collaborative style of working, individually
catered to you and your specific issues and concerns. Therapy aims to increase
a client’s self-awareness – of how we can be disconnected or cut off from
aspects of our psychological, body and emotional experience. This can be
experienced symptomatically as anxiety, depression, low self-worth or
self-esteem, and its impact observed in how we navigate, avoid or confront our
relationships with others, compulsive behaviours and how we view and treat
ourselves (critical voice, perfectionism or neglecting needs for our personal
wellbeing).
Our attachment style, childhood experiences of trauma,
neglect or abuse and adolescent experiences of bullying, bereavement or loss
can result in becoming internally disconnected. Together we can discover your
particular dynamics and the psychological tools, life-skills and new, creative
ways of thinking that will enable you to make the real difference you want to
see in yourself and in your life.
If you would like to find out how I can help you with your
specific concerns, please do email me or call with your initial inquiry or make
an appointment (details are at the top of this page).
About me:
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Pronouns: him/his and (gender status)
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Born in NZ, I have lived in Australia and then
the UK, for almost 30 years. I trained at the Central School for Counselling
and Psychotherapy, The Gestalt Centre (London), The Pellin Institute and CPPD.
I am currently working towards my Doctorate in Psychotherapy by Professional
Studies at the Metanoia Institute, researching the area of therapeutic
mentoring in Higher Education. I also have a degree in education and my Master’s
focused on Queer adolescent sexual identity development.
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I have worked extensively in the voluntary
sector developing counselling services across London, specialising in young
people’s services and the issues they face, and in the substance use and visual
impairment fields. I am also a Mental Health Advisor and Student Mentor at a
London University.
More recently I have trained and developed
interests in the experience of infant loss, trauma, positive psychology, the
skills of resilience, coercive relationships, and experiences of gender (trans,
non-binary etc).
