Dr Nicholas Sarantakis

Dr Nicholas Sarantakis is an HCPC registered Counselling Psychologist with 15 years of diverse therapeutic experience both in the UK and abroad. He has worked as a Programme Director, Senior Lecturer, and Lecturer at five universities in the United Kingdom. He has published extensively in the areas of psychotherapy and psychology.

He is an integrative practitioner, meaning that he creatively combines different therapeutic modalities and applies an individually tailored approach to meet the needs of each unique client in a sensitive and compassionate manner. While Humanistic Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, and CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - including Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)) form the ground of his approach, he will often suggest and discuss with you interventions and tasks that derive from narrative exposure therapy, existential, or Emotion-Focused Therapy.

Nicholas also completed a 5-year professional training in psychodynamic group, family, and couple therapy with the Hellenic Institute for Group Analysis and Family Therapy (accredited by the European Federation EGATIN). He has been practising couple and family therapy for several years. Please click here to learn more about his approach.

Nicholas has worked therapeutically in a wide variety of settings, including a psychiatric clinic, private practice, charities, schools, universities and counselling centres with clients of all ages and from a diversity of social, cultural and personal backgrounds, and he has more than ten years of psychotherapeutic experience. He is a caring and kind professional who will listen to you with no prejudice or judgment.

His areas of expertise are centred around anxiety, OCD, depression, relational issues, working through life and personal identity crises and trauma using an integrative psychotherapy perspective.

Nicholas provides psychological therapy for a large variety of psychological difficulties, including but not limited to:

• Addiction

• Anger Management

• Anxiety Disorders

• Depression

• Grief and Bereavement

• Insomnia and Sleep Difficulties

• Low Self-Esteem

• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

• Panic Attacks

• Phobias, Emetophobia, Claustrophobia and Agoraphobia

• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

• Relational Issues, Couple, Marriage and Family Difficulties

• Social Anxiety

• Trauma

• Intergenerational Trauma

• Sexual Difficulties

• Performance-Related Issues

• Work-Related Issues/Bullying

• Burnout and Work-Related Stress

• Mood Disorders

• Emotion Regulation

• Low Mood

• Abuse

• Childhood trauma

• Existential, personal meaning and identity issues

‘If I can accept what I cannot change, find the courage to change the things that I can and cultivate my wisdom to know the difference, then I will find serenity’

This paraphrasing of the poem ‘Serenity Prayer’ by Dr Neibuhr best summarises Nicholas’s therapeutic philosophy: life offers us plenty of wonderful opportunities to grow and thrive, to nourish warm relationships and connections with others and to embrace meaning throughout our lifespan. However, we are all sometimes faced with pragmatic and emotional challenges when we cannot have what our hearts are yearning for, when we lose what we love the most despite our best efforts, or when unexpected life predicaments come along our pathway. It is never easy to accept and overcome such painful realities, but there is always a way to alleviate the suffering and re-discover meaning and joy in life.

To book an appointment with Dr. Nicholas Sarantakis, please book your free consultation here and our Clinical Director will be happy to accommodate your request.