Adrian Clarke is a psychodynamic psychotherapist and relationship therapist working with both individuals and couples. He is also a highly-experienced family mediator. As well as his psychodynamic background, he is trained to use systemic, family therapy and CBT approaches. He is registered by the UK Council of Psychotherapy (UKCP). He was the chair of the directors of the Child and Family Practice from 2017 until 2022, where he is still based. Prior to that, he ran the adult counselling service at MiD Mediation and Counselling in West London, where he also mediated. He is a co-director of the London Intercultural Couples Centre.

Adrian works with a wide variety of issues, but particularly those that concern relationships. He helps individuals and couples who are struggling to understand the relationship they are in, or who have separated and are finding it hard to move on. He helps family members to communicate with one another in difficult circumstances, sometimes where relationships have broken down altogether, and also where cultural differences mean that understanding can be more challenging. He helps with all issues concerning desire, sex and intimacy, and with those suffering from anxiety and depression, both individually and as couples, and from grief and all types of loss. He sees those who were the victims of sexual, physical and emotional abuse as children. He has expertise in working with couples where one or both members of the couple are suffering from depression and where there are problems of addiction and substance misuse. He helps parents who are parenting apart as a result of separation and divorce, seeing them both separately and together. He helps with all issues concerning blended families and other more complex family structures.

Adrian is consulted by creative artists (writers, painters, actors, film directors amongst others) who are struggling with their creative process or who are facing challenges regarding a particular piece of work.

Supervision

Adrian supervises other psychotherapists. He also helps lawyers and other professionals regarding complex emotional issues that arise in their work.

Contact and appointments

Adrian sees people at the Child and Family Practice in Bloomsbury in Central London, and online using Zoom