Sophie Demuth

I am an Integrative Psychotherapist with 9 years experience and I draw on various perspectives to help my clients. My focus is on how I can help you experience change by becoming more fulfilled, healing from the past, gaining more clarity and taking more control of your life.

I have experience working with different types of addiction (drug, food and alcohol), relationship issues, personality disorders, eating disorders and OCD. I have also worked with trauma (including sexual abuse) and psychosis.

My style of therapy involves ‘‘gentle enquiry’’. I understand that you are generally self-aware and self-reflective and so it is my job to respect how you manage your life, whilst trying to understand how I can help you on your journey. There are always opportunities for challenge, but understanding what is going on in the present in relation to the past is often the interaction which brings about the “lightbulb” moments! Some people describe this as the elastic band being released!

• 2017
• Gut-Brain Axis – The Hungry Brain – WeightMatters Training Academy
• 2016
• MSc Integrative Psychotherapy UKCP registered
• Integrating the Psychiatric Diagnosis and Treatment of Eating Disorders – WeightMatters Training Academy
• 2015
• Working with Bingeing and Purging Behaviour – WeightMatters Training Academy
• Volunteer in psychiatric ward at the Maudsley Hospital
• 2014
• Food Diary Analysis – WeightMatters Training Academy
• Essential Nutrition for Working with Eating Disorders – WeightMatters Training Academy
• 2010
• Into the Light – Training in Sexual Abuse and Trauma, Individual and Group Work – The effects Shame, Anger, Powerlessness, Betrayal
• MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy including specific focus on:
  • Anxiety and Shame – Steven Smith
  • Anxiety states, Phobia and Obsessive Compulsive disorders – Prof. Maria Gilbert
  • Borderline, Narcissistic, Anti-social, Histrionic personality disorders – Prof. Maria Gilbert
  • CBT – Steven Smith
  • Child Development and Attachment – Cynthia Ransley
  • Gestalt – Phil Joyce
  • Integrative Psychotherapy – Prof. Maria Gilbert
  • Neurobiology – Steven Smith
  • Person Centred Counselling – Cynthia Ransley
  • Personality Disorders and DSM V – Prof. Maria Gilbert
  • Psychosis and Schizophrenia – Prof. Maria Gilbert
  • Post Traumatic and Complex Post Traumatic Stress – Steven Smith
  • Psychoanalysis – Prof. Diane Shmukler
  • Self-Psychology, Intersubjectivity and Object Relations psychology – Steven Smith
  • Transpersonal Approach – Prof. Vanja Orlans
  • Sexuality, Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation – Steven Smith
  • Transactional Analysis – Steven Smith
  • Trauma and Body Work – Julianne Appel-Opper
• 2009
• BSc (Hons) Psychology, Open University including focus on Applied Psychology, Child development, Cognitive Psychology, Neurobiology, Research Methods and Application and Social Psychology
• 2008
• Foundation year at Regent’s College, School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, focus on Existential Psychology