Meet The Team

Dr Isabella Girling
Founder & Director
Principal Clinical Psychologist
Izzy is a Principal Clinical Psychologist qualified to doctoral level and registered with the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC).
Izzy trained at the University of East London to work therapeutically with a wide range of patient groups, including adults, young people, children, and families. She has 15 years experience in the NHS across all the major London hospitals with patients and staff including University College London Hospital NHS Trust, Imperial College Healthcare Trust, Guys and St Thomas NHS Trust and Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. She has led NHS teams and developed and grown a private practice. Izzy has extensive experience across neonatal, paediatric and adult intensive care settings as well as in highly-specialist trauma and bereavement services for children, young people, parents and families. She has worked with people who are navigating complex systems including those in legal, court and care systems. Her research interests promote wellbeing for people who have experienced multiple and severe forms of violence. She works primarily from a systemic and psychoanalytic orientation and is trained in Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR).

Dr Thomas Robinson
Specialist Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
Tom is a Specialist Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist qualified to doctoral level and registered with the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP).
Tom has been working in the NHS with children and families for the last 15 years. He trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist at the Tavistock and Portman NHS trust and continues to work there in a highly-specialist forensic psychotherapy service. His previous psychotherapy roles include general CAMHS, NHS eating disorder services and working with adolescents in a community setting. He works with individuals aged up to 25, parents/carers and families. He is experienced in offering group work, reflective practice, professional consultation and teaching at post-graduate level. Before training as a psychotherapist he worked in NHS sexual health services, in hospitals including the Royal Free and Chelsea and Westminster and for services including NSPCC, Safer London and the Anna Freud Centre.

Dr Anna Churcher Clarke
Principal Clinical Psychologist
Anna is a Principal Clinical Psychologist, qualified to doctoral level and registered with the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC).
Anna trained at University College London (UCL) and is qualified to work with people across the lifespan. She has 15 years' experience in the NHS working in specialist and generic CAMHS, paediatric teams, as well as in Adult Primary Care. She has extensive experience working with adolescents and young adults struggling with their identity development and/or who have experienced significant interpersonal trauma. She has over 5 years' experience working with specialist charities, including AllChild and Trauma Treatment International, to provide brief psychological support, clinical supervision and training. She is a Senior Clinical Tutor (Lecturer) on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology training course at UCL, where she leads and teaches modules on both Reflective Practice and Children, Young People and Families, and supervises ongoing research in these areas. She works primarily from a systemic and psychoanalytic orientation and is trained in Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR).
Languages: English and Spanish

Dr George Yerbury
Specialist Clinical Psychologist
George is a Specialist Clinical Psychologist qualified to doctoral level and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
George trained at Royal Holloway, University of London, and has over five years experience working in the NHS across a range of services in London. George has worked across forensic, health and specialist trauma services, including services supporting people who have experienced forced migration. His work in CAMHS has included specialist neurodevelopmental teams, community and trauma services for children, young people and their families. His research focused on relational dynamics of families experiencing significant difficulties around separation, loss and conflict. George is trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), third-wave CBT, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT), and Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), a trauma-focused intervention for those looking to make sense of multiple difficult life experiences. He draws from systemic and psychodynamic ideas. George is additionally trained in specialist assessments for Autism (ADOS).
Languages: English and Spanish