Hi, I am Dr Poppy Jones, a Clinical Psychologist with 8 years’ experience working with clients facing challenges and difficulties in their life. I have worked in numerous services working with adults and, during this time, I have also developed a specialism working with teenagers and families. In particular, my work has a strong relational focus, considering people’s ways of relating to others and helping them notice and work through patterns that play out in different spheres of their life.

I work in both the private sector and the NHS. In my NHS role, I work in a specialist, intensive, adolescent service based in London which involves working with teenagers as well as their parents and the family as a whole. I enjoy my work with adolescents and think it can be helpful to bring some playfulness into sessions to make them more engaging.

I bring authenticity, warmth and compassion into sessions and I strongly believe that the therapeutic relationship is the foundation of all successful treatment. Therapy can often be saturated with ‘problem-talk’, and while there is need to focus on things that aren’t going as well as you would like, I also believe it is vital to incorporate strengths into therapy with the aim of fostering and developing these to help build resilience and use what you already have at your disposal.

When you are looking to start therapy, it is important that you find the right therapist, someone who has expertise in the challenges that bring you to therapy and at the same time, someone who you can connect with, allowing you to be open, honest and vulnerable in sessions.

Though this introduction is brief, I hope it has provided an opportunity for you to consider if you think we could be the right fit. Please do get in touch if you would like to think about the next steps. I offer a brief, free-of-charge, online consultation for us to meet before you choose if you would like to start working together. I would encourage you to make use of this by filling out the form here.