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Supportive, embodied and sensitively empowering therapy in Central London. My practice is trauma-informed, anti-racist, (non)Gender and LGBTQIA affirmative.
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About therapy
Therapy is a consistent, supportive, sensitively empowering relational space in which you can meet yourself with renewed curiosity, navigate an on-going difficulty, recover from traumatic wounds, (un)learn patterns of relating and expand your repertoire for connecting.
Through straightforward, warm and expansive conversations you can increase your capacity to outline and strengthen the contours of your sense of self (clearer boundaries, needs, wants, edges, wounds and pleasures) and develop a readiness to articulate these confidently when needed while retaining your ability to be surprised, to remain open.
Through straightforward, warm and expansive conversations you can increase your capacity to outline and strengthen the contours of your sense of self (clearer boundaries, needs, wants, edges, wounds and pleasures) and develop a readiness to articulate these confidently when needed while retaining your ability to be surprised, to remain open.
What it can support you with
I work with people who are going through various difficulties, including heightened anxiety, periods of depression, feeling stuck and lacking in purpose, recovering from the death of a person they were close to or experiencing loss and a sense of disorientation following the end of a relationship. I support people who are exploring their identities or suffering due to other people's response (or lack of) to their identities, be it due to their gender or sexuality. I help people recover from relational trauma resulting from a narcissistic parent or partner. I facilitate people through the challenges of relationships, transitions and recurring conflict with their partner(s).
I offer both brief and open-ended therapy depending on what might support you best right now. I always suggest 6 sessions to start with to give you an idea of what working with me might be like and to see whether you feel as though you'd like to end or continue.
Starting therapy
Various research evidence shows the importance of the connection you feel with your therapist. I'm approachable and clear about how I work and how I think I can help you. I will get back to you within 24 hours to set up an initial session where you have a chance to share what brings you to therapy and explore the possibility of working together.
An initial session costs £60 and there is no obligation to continue.
Each session is fifty minutes long. These are held on a weekly basis at a consistent date and time we agree on.
On-going sessions are £80.
An initial session costs £60 and there is no obligation to continue.
Each session is fifty minutes long. These are held on a weekly basis at a consistent date and time we agree on.
On-going sessions are £80.
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To book an initial session, please contact me via email or fill the form. E: [email protected] or leave a message on: T: 07507443568 I respond to any enquiries within 24 hours. |
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About me
Dora Darvasi (she/they) MA MBACP (accred.)
I’m an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). I attend regular clinical supervision and I'm committed to client confidentiality and continuing professional and personal development. I hold a Master's degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy and a BACP accredited Diploma in Gestalt Counselling.
I can be found on BACP's directory - It's good to talk, and on an LGBTQIA+ directory - Pink Therapy.
I have experience working with people whose difficulties are around their identities as well as with people whose identities are completely incidental to what they wish to seek support for. I'm passionate about seeing people becoming who they are and integrating parts of themselves they previously haven't accepted.
Being a trans & queer first generation immigrant I'm aware of the necessity of intersectional thinking, of power and oppression. I attend to anti-oppressive practice through being attuned to social context (recognising how the systems we live under impact us) and to the inherent power imbalance in therapy. I have a conversational style that is unlike the harmful archetype of a detached, 'neutral' clinician and I make use of immediacy and sensitive self-disclosure to elicit insights, reduce shame and deepen intimacy.
Alongside private practice, I'm a Visiting Tutor on GSRD and Gestalt Therapy Theory on both the Counselling and Psychotherapy programmes at The Gestalt Centre, London and I'm Deputy Editor of British Gestalt Journal. Outside of therapy engagements I write creatively.
I work bilingually in English and in Hungarian.
I can be found on BACP's directory - It's good to talk, and on an LGBTQIA+ directory - Pink Therapy.
I have experience working with people whose difficulties are around their identities as well as with people whose identities are completely incidental to what they wish to seek support for. I'm passionate about seeing people becoming who they are and integrating parts of themselves they previously haven't accepted.
Being a trans & queer first generation immigrant I'm aware of the necessity of intersectional thinking, of power and oppression. I attend to anti-oppressive practice through being attuned to social context (recognising how the systems we live under impact us) and to the inherent power imbalance in therapy. I have a conversational style that is unlike the harmful archetype of a detached, 'neutral' clinician and I make use of immediacy and sensitive self-disclosure to elicit insights, reduce shame and deepen intimacy.
Alongside private practice, I'm a Visiting Tutor on GSRD and Gestalt Therapy Theory on both the Counselling and Psychotherapy programmes at The Gestalt Centre, London and I'm Deputy Editor of British Gestalt Journal. Outside of therapy engagements I write creatively.
I work bilingually in English and in Hungarian.