Saskia Saunders

In-person sessions for individuals as well as couples in Crystal Palace, South East London.

Online sessions available via Zoom for individuals. I do not offer online sessions for Couples and Relationship Therapy.

Concessions available for online and daytime sessions.

I am an Integrative Counsellor, Couples and Relationship Therapist and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional offering a safe supportive space for you to explore your thoughts and feelings. You may be experiencing a life event, change in circumstances, feel stuck in an aspect of your life or want to explore aspects of your history as you forge your present and future paths. I am here to support you as you explore the elements that have brought you to counselling at this time.

As an Integrative Counsellor I work with Person Centred, Psychodynamic, Transactional Analysis, Existential and Cognitive therapeutic approaches. These are integrated into the way I work with you, depending on your unique requirements. Working in an Integrative therapeutic model means I support you in the way you specifically need. Our time is informed by you, not directed by me, or to suit a singular therapeutic approach. As a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional I am experienced supporting individuals who have been impacted directly by traumatic events, or have experienced vicarious trauma as a consequence of witnessing a loved one or another person in life-threatening circumstances.

Couples and Relationship Therapy offers a safe space to you to hear, understand and acknowledge each other’s experience of your relationship. Sessions are a supportive opportunity to explore difference, express feelings and work together to find ways for your relationship to move forwards, through developing insights into the patterns and behaviour that may not be supportive at this present time. Creating awareness of the ways behaviours could be impacting the relationship we can explore approaches to enhance your connection with one another, deepening your relational connection.

Alongside Private Practice I worked in a Hospice Bereavement Team supporting people adjusting to the death of loved ones, providing support for those experiencing complex grief, traumatic loss or multiple bereavements.

For individuals we will have free initial Discovery Call for approximately 20-minutes to explore working together. We will discuss some of the circumstances that have brought you to counselling at this time, reflecting on the hopes and goals you have for the counselling process. 

For couples, we will arrange an initial 1-hour Discovery Session to explore working together before committing to an initial cycle of 8-sessions together. The Discovery Session is an opportunity to discuss the elements that bring each of you to explore counselling, and to consider the insight you hope to gain about your relationship through therapy. The initial Discovery Session provides an opportunity for you to experience the therapeutic support and approach I work with in sessions. Following the discovery session we can then collaboratively decided if we will continue working together for an initial 8-week time frame. As we approach the end of the 8-week cycle of sessions we can review our work together and discuss further sessions, if and where appropriate. ​