Psychotherapists​.

There are two psychotherapists working at the Practice and the doctors refer to them as well as a wide range of others externally to suit the needs of the individual.

Virginia Mallin.

Psychotherapist
​BA, Psychodynamic Psychotherapist (WPF)
​Professional member FPC, UKCP
​For appointments call direct on 07932 784221
​or e-mail    [email protected]

Virginia trained at the renowned Westminster Pastoral Foundation (www.wpf.org.uk). She has extensive professional experience offering psychotherapy in private practice for adults and young people.

She has also worked as Consultant Psychotherapist at The Priory’s Eating Disorders Unit, counselled within the NHS in Primary Care, worked as media liaison consultant for her graduate body (FPC), co-managed a young person's counselling centre for the London Borough of Ealing, and provided a therapy service for a leading girls’ secondary school.
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She is the consultant psychotherapist for an educational website for parents of young children (www.littleparachutes.com) and for a website specifically for teenage girls (www.agnesforgirls.com) where she wrote the Look After Your Mind section.  She is passionate about young people’s welfare, mental health education, parenting issues, and mental health’s relationship to social issues and the built and natural environment.
 
“What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
 “I’ve worked with the whole range of mental health issues that can affect us all, and have a special interest in the states of being - loss, guilt, shame, love, integrity, meaning and purpose -  that underlie who we are and how we manage life’s inevitable events and struggles. When emotional pain disturbs our way of relating to ourselves and others, therapy offers a safe relational space to bring clarity, compassion, and understanding in order to make significant change possible”.
 
Virginia is on LinkedIn, FPC (www.thefpc.org.uk), and
UKCP (www.psychotherapy.org.uk)
Virginia Mallin is a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist.  As a member of FPC & UKCP she is bound by their codes of ethics and practice and is subject to their complaints procedures.

Caro Hill.

Psychotherapist
​MA, MBACP (Accred.)  www.carohill-therapy.co.uk
For appointments call direct on 07545 127973
​or email    [email protected]

 I see individuals, couples and small family groups seeking counselling and psychotherapy.  I work within an integrative model drawing both on humanistic and psychodynamic practice which I will often support by using EMDR, if appropriate. I look to work with reference to what might have evolved within a client's earlier childhood relationships and experience (both conscious and unconscious) and how that relates to, and impacts on, the experience of living life today.  

Clients often seek support at moments where they face great change in life, maybe feeling confused, shocked, distraught, lonely, bereft, guilty, humiliated and angry.  The process of therapy provides a safe place to come to terms with losses; explore self defeating patterns, beliefs and behaviours; address anxiety or the roots of a depression; or maybe find a place of acceptance, empowerment and compassion as a partner, friend, parent, son, daughter or sibling.  There are numerous motivations for therapy, and we would aim to work together towards wellbeing though change. 

I did my Foundation Level training in Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regents College and then gained a Masters Degree in Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy at Roehampton. I hold additional trainings in:  EMDR, EFT, Working with Addiction and Somatic Trauma Therapy.  Previously, I have worked as a Primary Counsellor, Family Therapist and Group Facilitator in a private clinic, as a Therapist in both Private and NHS GP surgeries, as a Staff Counsellor in large organisations and as an Aftercare Counsellor on various drug and alcohol programs. I have also run groups for the Divorce Support Group and have written and run workshops on Addiction, Boundaries and Codependency.  
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Currently I practice privately, seeing clients both in London, and Oxford. 
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