Aida Kerdoudi
Attachment-Based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Aida Kerdoudi
Attachment-Based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Whatever brings you to therapy, I understand that taking the first step is significant. We all need a safe space to discuss thoughts and feelings that we might hesitate to share.
As a BACP-registered psychotherapist, I aim to create a welcoming environment where you can address past and present issues. I'm dedicated to helping you become
Whatever brings you to therapy, I understand that taking the first step is significant. We all need a safe space to discuss thoughts and feelings that we might hesitate to share.
As a BACP-registered psychotherapist, I aim to create a welcoming environment where you can address past and present issues. I'm dedicated to helping you become more aware of unhelpful patterns that hold you back, facilitating your growth and change.
I provide confidential therapy sessions at my two conveniently located practices in central London:
Highbury & Islington
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Caledonian Road / Kings Cross
As a bilingual therapist, I am pleased to offer sessions in both English and French. I also have experience working with diverse cultural backgrounds.
About Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy, or "talk therapy," is a collaborative treatment method focused on dialogue. It involves discussing thoughts, feelings, and behaviours to understand emotional challenges and pain.
Individuals can explore troubling emotions and behaviour patterns in a supportive, non-judgmental environment. Psychotherapy offers many benefits, including symptom relief, new coping strategies, improved communication and interpersonal skills, and enhanced self-esteem.
It can also help manage mental health disorders, tackle life challenges, and encourage personal growth. Through psychotherapy, individuals gain self-awareness, set personal goals, and work towards meaningful change.
ABout Me & My Approach
I am an Attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist who completed four years of UKCP-accredited training at the Bowlby Centre. I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy ( BACP).
In addition to my private practice, I work with parents and infants as a perinatal psychotherapist within a parent-infant mental health service in the NHS.
Approach
My therapeutic approach is grounded in Bowlby’s attachment theory, which focuses on the long-lasting impact of our earliest relationships with childhood caregivers, such as our parents.
It emphasises the importance of early relationships in enabling us to grow and develop a healthy sense of self and the issues that arise when these relationships are insufficiently secure and supportive. Therefore, attachment therapy is based on a co-created relationship between the therapist and the client.
Additionally, I incorporate psychoanalysis to explore unconscious processes, providing deeper insights into the complexities of the human psyche.
Areas of Interest and Specialities
I have a particular interest in attachment trauma; I am also skilled in providing psychological support in a perinatal mental health setting.
My additional areas of interest include:
- Relationship difficulties
- Anxiety
- Loss
- Loneliness
- Self-esteem and confidence issues
- Shame
- Unresolved trauma
- Depression / low mood
- Racism and social biases
- Challenges of becoming or being a parent
Services
I offer in-person sessions for individuals
Online Consultation
Free of charge
Up to fifteen minutes
Preliminary Sessions
Psychotherapy Sessions
Memberships
