Jeanne Vorster Naidoo

I am a Clinical Psychologist and Chartered Psychologist offering long-term psychotherapy to women, in person in a calm and confidential setting in St John's Wood, and remotely. I have worked in mental health since 2002 and qualified as a Clinical Psychologist in 2005. From 2007 to 2017, I worked at a leading private mental health provider in central London. There, I offered individual therapy to inpatients, day-patients, and outpatients, and facilitated groups within the Interpersonal Therapy Programme, the Eating Disorders Unit, and the Young Persons Unit. I have practised full-time in private since 2016. I trained across psychodynamic, cognitive behavioural, interpersonal and person-centred therapies, and my approach today is integrative and grounded in psychodynamic theory. I am interested in how early relationships shape the ways we come to experience ourselves and others. I am equally interested in how experiences that were once overwhelming may remain held in the body and nervous system long after the events themselves. I am a Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy practitioner, a Somatic Trauma Therapies Practitioner and a Somatic EMDR Practitioner. This allows me to work with the mind and the body together, at a pace that feels safe and manageable. I have a particular interest in women's mental health across the lifespan. This includes the psychological complexity of relationships, motherhood, identity, loss and life transitions. I have undertaken specialist training in menopause-informed psychological care. I offer a warm, thoughtful and active therapeutic relationship in which you can explore your difficulties at your own pace. Therapy may involve making sense of long-standing patterns, understanding how past experiences continue to shape present feelings and relationships, and developing greater emotional steadiness and resilience. Over time, it can support a way of living that feels more authentic, meaningful and aligned with what matters to you.