Stella Compton Counselling

Private Clinics in North and Central South London.

Approved provider for all major private healthcare insurance companies

Counsellor, Cognitive Analytic Therapist, Music Therapist

I am offering brief and longer term counselling for a whole range of psychological problems.

Approved by The British Association of Performing Arts Medicine ( BAPAM) for the specialist treatment of Performance Anxieties and work- related stresses.

I am qualified to provide time-limited cognitive analytic and behavioural treatments and longer-term psychodynamic therapy, Member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (MBACP)

• Accredited Cognitive Analytic Practitioner
• Health Professions Registered Music Therapist
• Clinical Research Lead in Arts Therapies: Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

I am an accredited Cognitive Analytic Practitioner (CAT) and a Health Professions Council (HPC) Registered Music Therapist. I have worked for over fifteen years in therapeutic practice with the NHS, and continue to be a Clinical Research Lead in arts psychotherapy services for Nottinghamshire healthcare NHS Trust.

I trained for over seven years in CAT and in mental health studies at the medical school of Guys and St Thomas’s Hospitals in London (Kings College London) and before that in Music Therapy at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Initially trained as a professional musician at the Royal Academy of Music and subsequently working professionally as an orchestral musician, teacher and soloist, I am a member of the UKCP and the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP). This ensures the highest ethical standards of good clinical practice.