The Team

Dr Levent Yurdakul is a clinical psychologist with over 25 years experience of working in mental health. He practices in Guildford and online to support a nationwide and international client base. He works with clients across the lifespan (13+) supporting individuals, couples and families. Dr Yurdakul provides assessments and psychological therapy for clients presenting with difficulties ranging from 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, chronic physical illness and cognitive decline. His style of work can be described as collaborative, empathic and focused. His approach utilises Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), and is also informed by key theoretical concepts from psychodynamic, attachment, humanistic and systemic thinking and neuropsychology/neuroscience research.

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.

Dr Charlotte Ord is a Counselling Psychologist specialising in challenges around body image, weight, eating and LGBT+ issues. She works with adults and young people over the age of 16. She has extensive experience of working in the field of health and fitness and offers a safe, supportive and confidential space for you to explore the difficulties you are facing. Charlotte understands that it can be tough to talk about personal thoughts and feelings and recognises the importance of developing a strong therapeutic relationship to help you move forward more happily. Charlotte believes that there is no one psychological approach that suits everyone, and draws on a range of psychological concepts and psychotherapeutic techniques to find the approach that works best for you. She is trained and experienced in cognitive-behavioural, psychodynamic, existential and humanistic approaches, and considers the therapeutic process to be a collaborative effort in which you work together as a team.