The Team

Dr Levent Yurdakul is a clinical psychologist with over 25 years experience of working in mental health. He practices in Guildford and London. Dr Yurdakul works with clients across the lifespan that present with common mental health issues such as anxiety, stress and low mood through to more complex difficulties such as recurrent depressions, Bipolar II Disorder, trauma, ADHD, emotional instability and chronic physical illness. His style of work can be described as collaborative, empathic and focused. He utilises Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT). His approach is integrative and also informed by a range of psychological orientations such as psychodynamic and attachment, humanistic and systemic theories.

Dr Jenny Draisey is a Clinical Psychologist based around Guildford, Surrey who works with children and young people (aged 5-18) and their families. She specialises in assessing and treating young people presenting with a range of mental health difficulties specifically anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression sleep difficulties, and anger and oppositional difficulties. Jenny believes that young people’s mental health difficulties require a holistic and systemic approach. This approach analyses and treats not only the person themselves but the system and environment that surrounds that person.

Margot is an experienced and highly skilled Clinical Psychologist. She offers a caring, confidential, and collaborative environment. Margot believes that given the right conditions and support, everybody can access and utilise their internal resources to deal with psychological, emotional or behavioural difficulties. She is a Registered Clinical Psychologist, French-qualified, who works with children, young people and their families, adults, and couples dealing with a range of difficulties.

Dr Fitzgerald is an experienced mental health clinician (NHS and private practice). She works with individuals, couples, and families. She specifically works with anxiety, depression and emotional dysregulation which could manifest as self-harm, chaotic or avoidant lifestyles, poor functioning, substance misuse, anger issues and challenging behaviours. People seek psychological help when experiencing emotional difficulties, with distressing psychological and physical symptoms, contributing to behavioural and relationship problems. She focusses on maintaining a human understanding of mental health problems.

Louise is a Clinical Psychologist with 30 years of experience in helping people improve their mental health and wellbeing. She specialises in seeing individual adults (from age 18 and no upper age limit) with common mental health problems, such as anxiety and depression. Over her many years of practice, she has gained a good depth of knowledge with a wide number of issues. Her approach is to only use psychological therapies that have been proven to work. She believes that as well providing a warm and supportive relationship, effective therapy requires the use of active, evidence-based techniques. She provides appointments either online or in person in central Guildford.