Dr Monica Charalambides is a specialist Clinical Psychologist. She has extensive experience treating individuals with severe and enduring complex emotional and psychological difficulties.
Book a sessionCentral to Monica's approach is compassion and empathy for a client’s difficulties. Working collaboratively alongside an individual to understand, process, accept and progress in whatever challenges they face is an integral component of her therapy. At the core of her intervention is the client's journey and building a therapeutic space that feels safe, and allows the individual to move towards their goals in a sensitive way. Monica is a highly specialist clinical psychologist who trained at King’s College London (KCL). She has experience of providing psychological therapy in a range of National Specialist and local NHS settings as well as the private domain, and has expertise with individuals having unusual experiences along the psychosis spectrum. Monica has an integrative style that allows therapy to be tailored to the individual. She works primarily using a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) framework, but draws on third-wave models such as Mindfulness Based CBT, Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (CFT) as well as systemic practices. She has more recently built her therapeutic repertoire to include schema informed CBT, EMDR, and Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) for trauma. Monica is experienced at treating a wide variety of psychological difficulties with varying degrees of severity. These include depression, stress, anxiety, panic, obsessive compulsive disorder, trauma related problems, self-esteem issues, anger, interpersonal difficulties, unusual or psychotic experiences and bipolar affective disorder. She is adept at managing complexity and applying the most suitable therapeutic techniques fitting with the individual's needs.