Therapy for Professionals
Personal therapy for psychologists, therapists, counsellors and helping professionals
When much of your working life involves listening carefully to other people, understanding complexity and helping others find their way through difficult experiences, there can be relatively little space in which the attention is simply on you.
Professional knowledge can help us make sense of what we are experiencing. It does not always change how that experience feels to live through.
I offer confidential online psychological therapy for psychologists, therapists, counsellors and other helping professionals who are looking for a space to attend to their own lives, relationships and psychological needs beyond the professional role.
When You Are Usually
the Person Supporting Others
Working in a helping profession often shapes the way we approach our own difficulties. You may be used to reflecting, understanding patterns and remaining thoughtful when situations become complicated. These capacities can be valuable while also making it possible to continue functioning for quite some time before recognising how much you are carrying.
People come to therapy at very different points. Something may have become difficult in a relationship or personal life. Work and responsibility may have begun to take more from you than they once did. At other times, there is no obvious crisis, but a growing sense that something about how you have been living no longer feels quite right.
Therapy offers a relationship in which you do not need to be the person making sense of everything for somebody else.
Culture, Identity and the Different Worlds We Occupy
For people who have lived, worked or developed professionally across cultures, psychological experience can carry additional layers. Professional values may sit alongside family expectations, cultural meanings, language, migration experiences and different ideas about responsibility, independence or what it means to cope well.
Having lived and practised across cultural contexts myself, I pay close attention to these parts of a person's experience. They are not treated as background information when they are psychologically important.
Therapy is available in English, Cantonese and Mandarin, allowing us to work with language and cultural meaning more directly where this matters to you.
What You Might Bring to Therapy
Your profession may form part of what brings you to therapy, but it does not have to be the focus.
Much of my work is with people whose experiences sit across several parts of their lives. This may include high achievement and burnout, questions around culture, identity and belonging, neurodivergence and masking, the continuing impact of trauma or difficult life experiences, and changes within relationships, family life or personal direction.
These experiences do not always sit neatly apart from one another. Cultural expectations can shape achievement and responsibility. Neurodivergence may only become visible after years of adapting successfully. Earlier experiences can influence relationships long after we understand them intellectually.
Our work is therefore guided by the particular pattern of your experience rather than by fitting it into a single category.
The Person Behind the Professional Role
Psychological training inevitably comes into the therapy room with you. You may already have language for what is happening, recognise a familiar pattern, or notice yourself thinking about the process while you are in it.
I do not expect you to leave that knowledge outside the room. Equally, you do not need to turn your own therapy into another piece of clinical work.
We can think together about what you understand already, what continues to feel difficult despite that understanding, and what becomes clearer when there is enough space to stay with your own experience rather than immediately explain or resolve it.
Working With Me
I am Dr Tiffany Leung, a Chartered Counselling Psychologist and HCPC-registered Practitioner Psychologist, with over 14 years of clinical experience across NHS, secure, forensic, community and private psychological services.
My work is formulation-led and relationally integrative. Rather than beginning with a fixed treatment model, I work with you to understand how your difficulties have developed, what may be maintaining them, and what kind of therapeutic work is most relevant to you. My practice is trauma-informed, culturally responsive and neurodiversity-affirming.
When working with other professionals, I also bring an understanding of the demands and cultures that can surround psychological and helping work. The therapy itself, however, remains centred on your experience rather than on how well you are performing professionally.
Personal Therapy During Professional Training
If you are training as a counsellor, psychotherapist or psychological practitioner, personal therapy may form part of your course requirements.
I also work with trainees completing required personal therapy, including programmes requiring 40 hours of personal therapy. As requirements differ between courses and training providers, you should confirm that your chosen therapist meets the criteria set by your programme.
Where therapy begins through a training requirement, there is still space for the work to become personally meaningful rather than simply something that needs to be completed.
Fees & Booking
Online individual psychological therapy for professionals: £85 per 60-minute session.
Sessions are provided online. I work with professionals in the UK and internationally where this is clinically and professionally appropriate.
If you would like to briefly discuss what you are looking for before arranging therapy, you are welcome to book a free 15-minute initial consultation.
Looking for Clinical Supervision Instead?
Personal therapy and clinical supervision serve different purposes.
If the support you are looking for relates primarily to your clinical work, therapeutic practice or professional development, I also provide clinical supervision for trainee and qualified practitioners.
You can also explore my wider professional services, including training and psychological resources.
