Dr. Camilla Fadel

Camilla is a Relationship and Psychosexual therapist, Systemic practitioner/ Family Counsellor and Coach. Seeing relationships as a foundation to wellbeing, whether they are the relationships we hold with one another, ourselves or our wider environment Camilla has trained through a variety of therapy models including psychodynamic, systemic and integrative, and utilises different approaches to best suit the individuals, couples and family groupings she sees.

Camilla has particular interest in the navigation of transition points when Relationships tend to find tension -including, but not limited to:

• experiencing challenges with fertility, 
• early years of parenting, 
• ​carer responsibilities and 
• periods of grief whether through bereavement or other pivotal losses including infidelity, estrangement, separation/ relationship endings and career loss/change.

Focus of sessions may include conflict, communication challenges, maintaining boundaries, understanding complex family dynamics, leaning into emotional expression, psycho education surrounding sex and menopause, practical experiments and invitations for building intimacy.

Coaching work is contracted separately to counselling and therapy, yet with an aligned  relational emphasis in areas such as :

• Creating a preferred fit to working family life
• Realigning with what a fulfilling career looks like personally
• Supporting challenging conversations in leadership positions, and across different working cultures.

Having moved her own career from medicine to therapy and coaching, Camilla finds particular fulfilment supporting healthcare professionals and those working in other high stress sectors. Camilla has worked in the NHS for over a decade in a variety of roles including currently as a mental health educator and coach; and previous working in a range of Psychiatry services, a Perinatal team and leading an NHS Psychosexual Service. Charity work includes working in relate for 8 years and current work as a trustee for a local mental health charity and facilitator for a breast cancer charity. Camilla aims to create an inclusive and affirmative space supporting clients of all gender, sexual and relational diversities, and where physical or mental health, or neurodivergent diagnosis may be part of the challenges they experience in their relationships.  Working beyond labels, to depathologise and bring awareness to the impact of healthcare journeys; sessions aim to be holistic, holding account and challenge alongside compassion. Taking a trauma informed approach, Camilla brings intent across sessions to ease guilt and remove the shame that many clients experience. 

Fees:
£90 Individuals
£120 Couples/ Adult Family Counselling