Meet Our Practitioners
“There is a crack, a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” – Leonard Cohen.
PSYCHOTHERAPY & COUNSELLING
Yasmine Shirazi Sommers
UKCP (Accredited), MBACP, APA
Advanced DBS Check.
- yasmine@sommerspsychotherapy.com
- 020 3780 8196
UKCP, MBACP, APA
My Approach
As an experienced UKCP accredited and MBACP Psychotherapist, informed by a comprehensive understanding of intersectionality, my practice is grounded in my commitment to create a safe, confidential, secure, and non-judgemental environment where my clients are able to freely explore their behaviours, thoughts and feelings at a pace that feels right for them.
My background in the creative and financial industries gives me an in-depth understanding of the specific challenges faced by individuals working in those fields. However, my approach is tailor-made for each client as I tune into their unique lived experience. My wealth of life experience, my strong desire to assist others, my ability to empathise, think creatively, collaborate effectively, and maintain self-awareness are essential elements that allow me to attune to the needs of my clients with a non-judgemental attitude.
As an integrative psychotherapist, I combine various schools of psychotherapy to address the specific needs and goals of my clients, and to help them identify their core emotional difficulty. I believe that the therapeutic relationship is a key element of the process, and I invite clients to consider new perspectives and potentially new ways of being, by creating space for inner experience. This enables us to trust in our own inner guidance, promoting self-awareness and self-acceptance – these are essential elements for growth and any transformative healing process.
I frequently employ Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Therapy (AEDT) in my work. This approach distils the most effective elements of psychodynamic therapy into a more targeted strategy to promote transformation, with an emphasis on the experiential – because just talking about things is not enough: there must be deeper embodiment of change that comes through feeling differently. The content is dynamic, as it emphasises our conscious and unconscious interactions with ourselves and others. This is a relatively directive approach, which means the therapist does not take a passive role and is actively engaged and collaborates in the process. My approach though is integrative, and I often employ other modalities such as Attachment theory, Internal Family Systems (IFS) working with clients distinct ‘parts’, as well as sensorimotor practices, ACT, Mindfulness, and Gestalt chair work.
Qualifications & Professional Development:
- Advanced PostGrad - PGCIP - Regents University London. Systemic & Psycho-sexual / Gestalt / Jung / Transpersonal
- MA Psychotherapy & Counselling - Regents University London. Psychoanalytic / Existential / Humanistic / CBT
- Post Graduate diploma (PGDip) Psychotherapy & Counselling - Regents University London
- Transitions Cert - Re-vision: Counselling & Psychology with a soulful perspective.
- MA Theatre Directing (Distinction) – E15
- PostGrad Diploma Meisner Technique – Joanne Baron & D.W. Brown Studios Los Angeles.
- PostGrad Acting – LAMDA.
- BA Economics – University College London (UCL).
I have Additional CPD Training:
- The Neurobiology of Trauma: What’s Going on In the Brain When Someone Experiences Trauma?
- The Neurobiology of Attachment.
- How to Work with Traumatic Memory Embedded in the Nervous System.
- How to Help Clients Tolerate Deregulation and Come Back from Hypo-arousal.
Jordan Sommers
MBACP, MNCPS, APA
Advanced DBS Check.
- jordan@sommerspsychotherapy.com
- 020 45720164
MBACP, MNCPS, APA
My Approach
Qualifications & Professional Development:
Yasmine Shirazi Sommers - UKCP, MBACP, MNCPS, APA
My Approach
Qualifications & Professional Development:
- Advanced PostGrad - PGCIP - Regents University London. Systemic & Psycho-sexual / Gestalt / Jung / Transpersonal
- MA Psychotherapy & Counselling - Regents University London. Psychoanalytic / Existential / Humanistic / CBT
- Post Graduate diploma (PGDip) Psychotherapy & Counselling - Regents University London
- Transitions Cert - Re-vision: Counselling & Psychology with a soulful perspective.
- MA Theatre Directing (Distinction) – E15
- PostGrad Diploma Meisner Technique – Joanne Baron & D.W. Brown Studios Los Angeles.
- PostGrad Acting – LAMDA.
- BA Economics – University College London (UCL).
I have Additional CPD Training:
- The Neurobiology of Trauma: What’s Going on In the Brain When Someone Experiences Trauma?
- The Neurobiology of Attachment.
- How to Work with Traumatic Memory Embedded in the Nervous System.
- How to Help Clients Tolerate Deregulation and Come Back from Hypo-arousal.