Psychotherapist

ABOUT ME

Galia brings over 8,000 clinical hours of experience across one-to-one and group psychotherapy settings within the NHS, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), non-governmental organisations (NGOs), Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs), private clinics, and rehabilitation centres. 

Her areas of specialism include stress- and anxiety-related difficulties, adverse life experiences, PTSD, sexual abuse and exploitation, depression, dissociative disorders, substance use and behavioural addictions, relationship challenges, and personality-related difficulties. Her work is integrative in nature, informed by psychodynamic, humanistic, and cognitive-behavioural frameworks, and focused on depth, meaning, and psychological change rather than symptom management alone.

Galia is trained in the safeguarding of vulnerable adults, young people, and children. She has worked with clients from a wide range of ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds and has formal training in equality and diversity. She has experience working therapeutically with LGBTQ+ individuals and neurodivergent clients (Autism, ADHD)

She is psychopathology-informed and holds certifications in the Mental Capacity Act and PREVENT awareness, enabling her to work ethically and confidently within complex clinical, safeguarding, and institutional contexts.

Galia works psychotherapeutically with adults, young people, and children.

EDUCATION

• MSc in Legal Psychology, Criminology, and Forensic Sciences

• BSc in Psychology

• Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Level 4)

• Diploma in Children’s Therapy

• Diploma in Depression Counselling

• Diploma in Neuroplasticity

• Diploma in Jungian Psychotherapy

• Diploma in Secondary Education (Humanities) — Psychology, History, and Philosophy

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS. DIPLOMAS. PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATES

ADDITIONAL SPECIALIST MODULES

Mental Health & Neurodevelopment

• Certificate in Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counselling

• Certificate in Attachment-Based Therapy

• Certificate in Working with Anxiety

• Certificate in Trauma, Anxiety and Mental Health

• Certificate in Working with Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse

• Certificate in Human Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

• Certificate in Working with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Hypnotherapy with Children and Adolescents

• Certificate in Mental Health Awareness: hearing voices, psychotic episodes, hallucinations, treatments, Mental Health Act 1983 (amended 2007), personality disorders, bipolar disorder, depression, counselling

• Certificate in Autism Awareness

• Certificate in Awareness of Mental Health, Dementia, and Learning Disabilities

• Certificate in Working with Challenging Behaviour

Addiction, Substance Use & Recovery

• Certificate in Addiction: Neuroscience and Recovery Therapy

• Certificate in Addiction: From Heroin to Workaholism — A Biopsychosocial Perspective

• Certificate in Alcohol Misuse: diagnosis and dual diagnosis, abstinence and harm reduction, relapse and recovery, individual and group support

• Certificate in Drug Misuse:
  GHB, benzodiazepines, hallucinogens (LSD, psilocybin), inhalants, opioids, heroin, methadone, steroids, stimulants (amphetamines, ecstasy), cocaine and crack cocaine, nicotine, anaesthetics, PCP, ketamine, cannabinoid substances; caring for drug users; treatment, intervention, detoxification, diagnosis, and dual diagnosis

• Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for Changing Addictive Behaviour

Safeguarding & Duty of Care

• Certificate in Safeguarding and Protection of Adults

• Certificate in Children Safeguarding

• Certificate in Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults: abuse and neglect, criminal offences, rights violations, emotional and psychological abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, financial and material abuse, institutional abuse, domestic abuse, modern slavery

• Certificate in Risk Assessment and Risk Management

• Certificate in Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)

• Certificate in Mental Capacity, Court of Protection, Advance Decisions, and IMCA Advocacy

• Certificate in Anti-Radicalisation and PREVENT Awareness (Schools)

Clinical Practice, Communication & Professional Standards

• Certificate in Care Planning and Assessment: assessing care plans, continuity of care, promoting best interests

• Certificate in Assessing Needs

• Certificate in Safe Administration of Medicines

• Certificate in First Aid Training

• Certificate in Equality and Diversity

• Certificate in Confidentiality and Information Governance

• Certificate in Documentation and Record Keeping

• Certificate in Data Protection, including GDPR

• Certificate in Effective Communication: verbal and non-verbal communication, effective listening

• Certificate in Conflict Management

• Psychopathology (British Psychological Society accredited)

• Psychopathology (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy accredited)

• Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Psychology

• Psychology Across Time and Cultures

• Mechanisms of the Mind: emotion, perception and vision, thinking and reasoning, attention, social cognition

• Cognitive and Biological Explanations of Behaviour: neuronal communication, basic genetics and evolution, ADHD 

• Psychological Interventions: families and parenting, psychology of education, psychosexual relationship therapy, counselling for depression

• Individual Differences: intelligence, emotional intelligence, psychometric scales, theories of personality, psychopathy, narcissism, Machiavellianism, trait theories, cognitive and motivational factors 

• Humanistic and Person-Centred Therapy

• Psychodynamic Therapy

• Gestalt Therapy

• Transactional Analysis Therapy

• Forensic Sciences

• Legal Psychology

• Family Law and Child Mediation

• Criminal Law, Crime Psychology and Criminology

• Understanding Violence (Forms, Types and Reasons)

• Organisation of Human Rights Bodies

• Court-Appointed Expert Reports and Forensic Expert Evidence

• Rhetoric and Advocacy Skills

• Penal Enforcement

• Political and Legal Doctrines

• Legal Philosophy

Galia adheres to the ethical frameworks of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), the British Psychological Society (BPS), and the British Neuroscience Association (BNA).