Alexander Ross

How Can I help?

You may be facing difficulties that are affecting your work or straining important relationships. Perhaps you feel anxious, low, irritable, ashamed, or unsure of yourself. You might be finding it harder to cope than usual, or feeling stuck in patterns you don’t fully understand.

​Struggling on your own can feel isolating. It can be difficult to see a way forward.
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Therapy offers a space to slow down and think. In the short term, it can help you feel more stable and supported. Over time, it can help you understand and work through the deeper issues driving stress or distress, leading to lasting change.

​The people I work with not only experience relief from the difficulties that bring them to therapy, but also develop a stronger, more confident sense of who they are. They become more effective at work and better able to build and sustain meaningful relationships.

First Steps

​I have had many years of psychotherapy myself, both for personal and professional development. I understand that starting therapy can feel daunting — especially when deciding who to see and what kind of therapy might suit you. 

I offer a free initial call so we can think together about what brings you to therapy, answer any questions you may have, and get a sense of whether this feels like the right fit.

What is Therapy About?

​I specialise in psychodynamic (also known as psychoanalytic) psychotherapy. This approach works in depth with unconscious patterns that lie outside our immediate awareness.

​Often, present difficulties are shaped by earlier experiences, long-standing relationship dynamics, or demanding work environments. Psychodynamic therapy helps you understand these patterns so that you are no longer driven by them without choice.

Areas of Specialty

-Processing a crisis from my work as a psychology lead in an NHS crisis service
Through the challenges of working in healthcare and other high pressure environments having practised as a medical doctor

-Gain understanding around intercultural issues related to race, class, faith, gender, sexuality and disability having trained in intercultural psychotherapy  

-To grieve - enabling you to process and work through bereavement

-Tackle difficulties managing anger especially supporting many men to move from anger and aggressiveness to be able to thrive in work and relationships

-With gambling and gaming addiction

-Working through childhood or more recent sexual assault, domestic violence or other abuse

-Support around self-injury and suicidality.

About Me

I have worked in mental health in the NHS, forensic services, the charity sector and higher education for 14 years.

In addition to my private practice in London Bridge, I work as a senior psychotherapist in the NHS as the psychological professional lead for a London borough's community service.

I trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy at the Tavistock and within the NHS before this working as a medical doctor, qualifying in 2012.

I am an independent researcher most recently publishing a book called Meditation for Psychotherapists, run courses on the subject and lecture in psychotherapy up to masters level.