About me
Melanie Clews
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I offer group and individual psychotherapy in London and online.
As a psychotherapist I offer an approach in my therapeutic practice that is based on a range of professional clinical experience. I have worked in different mental health sectors - the NHS, the third/charity sector, in a higher education and university setting, and in private practice.
I am a clinical supervisor, and have an advanced qualification (with the Institute of Group Analysis) as a training group analyst.
I believe in the creative and therapeutic potential of groups; their capacity to meaningfully contain difficult, intimate, ambivalent and sometimes strong emotions.
I have experience working with young adults individually and in groups; offering group therapy for themes such as relationships, sexuality, sexual identity and gender diversity. In addition, I have extensive experience of working with issues relating to loss and bereavement.
“It is my belief that talking and thinking with an experienced therapist, in a confidential and safe therapeutic environment, can offer the possibility of developing new ways of thinking, understanding and insight into patterns of relating – allowing a space for change in the present and hope for the future.”
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Group Analyst/ Psychotherapist
MSc Group Analysis & Full Member IGA
Training Group Analyst (Institute of Group Analysis)
UKCP Registered
MA (Academic)
Member GAN London (previous Chair)
Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy Training Part 1 (Anna Freud Centre)
Psychosexual Studies Cert. (Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships)
Member of the London Courses Committee for the Institute of Group Analysis 2016 - 2023
Supervisor (Diploma in Supervision – ‘Using the Group as the Medium of Supervision’ – Institute of Group Analysis 2018
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Applications of Group Analysis for the Twenty-First Century
Volume: 52 issue: 2, page(s): 264-266
Article first published online: March 12, 2019; Issue published: June 1, 2019
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0533316419831484