Meet the Team

Robert runs a private practice on Cavendish Square, London. His therapy practice focus is both enabling people to create more connected and better relationships through individual and couples work, and working as an experienced practitioner attachment focused EMDR. EMDR processing aims to reduce the emotional distress of trauma and PTSD. Robert uniquely combines over 15 years of clinical work with hands-on leadership experience. He is currently Head of Therapeutic Services at The School of Life and previously led organisations in the UK wellbeing sector as CEO for 10 years. Robert is passionate about enabling people to develop greater connection with themselves and others, and enable clients to live their most authentic life.

Joanne is an integrative psychotherapist and couples counsellor, with over 10 years experience working in a variety of settings. She takes a responsive approach, putting client needs at the centre of the work, finding ways to help clients meet therapeutic goals. For Joanne, the heart of counselling is about being alongside; supporting you to look at and explore yourself, to help you connect with yourself and others at a deeper level. Joanne works with clients on a range of issues including relationship issues, anxiety in all of its expressions, disconnection/depression and the individual challenges we each face living in the modern world.

Yasmin is an integrative psychotherapist and clinical supervisor with over 10 years’ experience. Yasmin is further trained in EMDR therapy as well as other trauma focused approaches (e.g., Judith Herman’s three stages) to assist with emotional regulation and processing of trauma. She practices with an integrative modality – Humanistic, Existential, Psychodynamic, and Transpersonal, which allows for flexibility in approach, and is familiar with different models such as CBT, IFS and others. As a supervisor, Yasmin works with inter-cultural awareness to support and supervise therapists and trainee therapists, individually or in groups/ organisations. Her practice offers space online, in W2 & W1 in London.

Grace is committed to helping individuals and organisations achieve their goals through a neurobiologically informed approach to coaching. Her coaching style is creative and somatic - meaning that she works with the mind-body connection to help clients address both internal and external barriers to growth. She is well versed in organisational dynamics and can support your business to build executive vision, depth and integrity. She has a deep interest in systemic or system based theories, as well as existential and experiential practices. This means that she will work with you or your organisation to devise unique and energising exercises to explore your options, solve problems and mobilise ambition and success. Through methods that are effective in creating change and impact from a neurobiological and systemic resolution. Grace has worked for a decade as an Integrative Art Psychotherapist, specialising in complex trauma and neurodiversity, and further operates as an accredited Psychologically Informed Mediator and Senior Executive Coach.

Amanda is an EMCC Senior Accredited and BACP Senior Accredited Therapeutic Coach working with individuals and couples, whether life partners or business partners, both face-to-face at her office on Southernhay East in central Exeter and online. She is passionate about helping her clients create meaningful, lasting change in their lives and relationships. Using a pluralistic and integrative approach, Amanda draws from a range of modalities with a focus on relational depth and an existential underpinning. She helps her clients navigate challenges and achieve their goals through a gently confrontative yet compassionate approach. Amanda has been an advocate for the statutory regulation of counselling and psychotherapy and remains dedicated to ensuring therapeutic spaces remain safe, ethical, and professional. Amanda prides herself on an authentic, no-nonsense approach delivered with a good dose of humour.

Seana started her career working for Procter & Gamble in the Consumer & Market Knowledge department. She left in 2013 to start her own consultancy and training business and to have more flexibility around her family. Since then, Seana has trained as a senior coach and counsellor, and established a busy private practice working primarily with women in their 30s, 40s and 50s. Seana undertook further specialist training in order to work with children and young people, and further provides facilitation and coaching for a women’s leadership accelerator programme in the Data, AI and Tech sector. Seana is passionate in particular about her coaching work with women. She offers a blended approach which provides the dynamic energy of coaching along with the depth of emotional support that counselling offers, if it is needed. Seana provides a safe and supportive space where her clients can think and reflect about who they are, what they want from life and career and how best to balance work and family.

Kathleen is a qualified and accredited psychotherapist and mediator and a registered member of the UKCP, BACP and the CMC - seeing clients and patients in both London and NYC, and is a regular board advisor. She has authored two books with Hachette on Narcissism (Sept 2025) and Leadership Psychology (Sept 2026) is a regular on-screen psychotherapist for ITV’s This Morning, columnist for Stylist Magazine and contributor for The Times. She co-founded Psyched Ventures in 2016, offering corporate and individual psychology, retreats, and performance programmes for executives and Advertising Week Europe in 2011, bringing together the TMT community annually.

Dorothy is an integrative psychotherapist with over 15 years’ experience. She aims to provide a non- judgemental, accepting and compassionate space in which it is safe to express, explore, and gain deeper understanding. She is fully qualified with a post-graduate Diploma and a Master’s degree in psychotherapy. She has further training in EMDR, with a focus on attachment trauma. She is UKCP-accredited. Dorothy’s training allows her to draw from various theory and techniques, according to what she feels will be most helpful for you in the moment. Underlying her work is her fundamental belief in the intrinsic worth of every individual.

Rebecca Barrie has more than 20 years’ experience working as a psychotherapist with a wide variety of clients with emotional and psychological difficulties. She has worked extensively with clients supported by public organisations such as the South London and Maudesley NHS Trust, St Thomas’ Hospital and The Woman’s Trust and private organisations such as Doctorcall, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and Channel 4 Television. Rebecca received clinical and academic training for five years at Regent’s University London as an integrative psychotherapist, has a Certificate in Psychosexual Studies from The Tavistock Clinic and is registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. As a therapist, Rebecca believes strongly in the power of a safe and non- judgemental environment from which to think, talk and start to bear what may feel unbearable; and that a quality of relationship between therapist and client is essential to work that is impactful. She approaches her work with intelligence and empathy and a powerful understanding of how people relate to themselves and others. Rebecca runs her practice from central London, works with clients internationally, online and in person. She has a special interest in supporting women in crisis or transitional moments in their lives. Working with a private sexual health clinic in Harley Street for more than ten years, she has helped many people with reproductive difficulties – be it fertility or peri or post-natal depression or miscarriage – sexual dysfunction and sexual trauma. She believes that the emotional impact of reproduction, and its complex nature, is often underestimated and misunderstood. To find out more about how Rebecca works, or to set up a first conversation, please email her: rebecca.barrie@cavendishpsychotherapy.co.uk or visit her website: https://www.cavendishpsychotherapy.co.uk/