Confidential psychological support for anxiety, alongside help with addiction and compulsive behaviours, in Chelsea, Sloane Square and Kensington.
MAKE AN ENQUIRY →I am a psychologist and psychotherapist, offering a confidential space to explore anxiety and the difficulties that lie beneath it. I also work with addiction and compulsive behaviours, bringing many years of experience to understanding the person behind the struggle.
Anxiety can take the form of persistent worry, an unsettled feeling in the body, or a sense of always needing to stay in control. You may appear to be managing well while inwardly feeling overwhelmed, exhausted or unable to switch off. I bring warmth and sensitivity to understanding what this experience is like for you.
Together, we make room for what feels difficult to carry: fears, pressures, uncertainty and experiences that may be hard to put into words. Where alcohol, drugs or compulsive patterns have become part of the picture, these can also be explored with care and without judgement.
Alongside seeking relief from anxiety, I listen for what your experience may reveal about your needs, relationships and inner life — including what has been wounded, neglected or left unspoken. My approach is a care of the whole person, including the life of the soul, with room for your own beliefs and understanding.
There are times when a person can no longer return to the life they inhabited before. The old ways of surviving have ceased to sustain them, while the shape of what comes next cannot yet be seen. Such times can feel frightening and profoundly disorientating, but they can also become thresholds.
I accompany people through these places with patience and compassion, helping them listen more deeply to their own experience and explore ways of living with greater steadiness, confidence and freedom.
Our work can make space for more than relief from distress: for meaning, relationship, belonging and the possibility of feeling more at ease in your own life.
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I am John Stewart, MSc, MPhil, a psychologist and psychotherapist. My work offers space to understand anxiety and emotional distress, and draws on many years of experience supporting people with addictions and compulsive behaviours.
My approach brings psychological understanding together with sensitivity to the spiritual life and the questions of meaning that can arise during difficult times. I make room for the person’s own beliefs, experiences and way of understanding their life.
I offer private consultations in West London and online. If you would like to know more about my background or how I work, I welcome those questions in an initial conversation.
A space to understand persistent worry, inner tension and feeling overwhelmed, and to explore greater steadiness in everyday life
Compassionate support with alcohol, drugs and repeating behaviours, with attention to what lies beneath them
Listening to the deeper story with psychological and spiritual sensitivity
Private consultations in West London and online. Fees are discussed upon request.
If anxiety is taking up too much of your life, or you are concerned about addiction or patterns that feel difficult to change, you are welcome to get in touch. A first conversation can begin without judgement and without pressure.
Fees are discussed upon request.
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