Joel Levy

I offer regular daytime sessions, face-to-face in south west London and online.

鈥淭he past influences everything and dictates nothing.鈥�  (Adam Phillips)                

I am a fully qualified and accredited psychodynamic counsellor and psychotherapist.  I work in private practice and in the NHS across a wide range of issues and with people from many different backgrounds.

I provide a confidential, empathetic and non-judgmental space.  A space to find more effective ways for you to manage your difficult feelings, thoughts and relationships.  A space for you to find a deeper awareness and understanding of your self and your recurring patterns.  A space where you can find ways of stopping your unhelpful patterns - often rooted in the past  -  dictating your future.

Our work together would be unique to your needs and situation.   It would seek to go beyond simply reducing symptoms to helping you achieve a deeper, stronger, better and more resilient sense of self.  And to give you the opportunity to live a more authentic and fulfilled life in which your personal growth can continue long after the therapy has finished. 

I work with adults of all ages, backgrounds and identities.

I help people address a wide range of issues such depression, anxiety and stress; low self-esteem and self-sabotaging thoughts and behaviours; loss, grief and bereavement; persistent feelings of sadness, emptiness, emotional numbness, stuckness, guilt, anger, hate, envy, and jealousy; obsessive and compulsive behaviours and intrusive thoughts; difficulties in making and sustaining good relationships; navigating difficult work and life transitions; identity issues such as feeling confused, not knowing, understanding or liking yourself, or coping with the projections of others onto your identity; feelings of having to 鈥榤ask鈥� the true self; feeling like an outsider, lacking connection/intimacy with others,  amongst many other difficult,  often complex and uniquely personal issues.

I offer regular sessions between one and three times weekly, typically on an open-ended basis.  

Fees are 拢80 per session/consultation. 

Once you get in touch by email, text or phone message, we will find a time to speak briefly about what you are looking for to make sure it is something I can help you with.  If I feel I can help and it feels right for you, we will then set up a 50-minute consultation. 

In that consultation, you will get to experience  how I work as we explore in more detail your issues and whether we both feel it is likely to be beneficial for you to work with me as your psychotherapist. Reaching that view can sometimes take more than a single consultation.