Venetia Leonidaki

I am a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, leading a behavioural addiction treatment service, specialising in helping those affected from addictive behaviours that do not involve substances, such as gambling. I also have a special interest in working with loss, grief, and long-standing relational difficulties. I work with adults, couples, and young people.

I have been an accredited DIT therapist since 2017 and a supervisor since 2023. I have offered supervision to trainees in the 20-Day DIT course at the Anna Freud Centre. I completed my doctorate thesis in clients's experiences of DIT and published the results in two peer-reviewed articles in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and a book chapter in The Social and Interpersonal Aspects of Depression Today. I have also co-authored a chapter about DIT in The Handbook of Brief Therapies: A Practical Guide. I also have a track record of publications in the area of addiction.

Having been on both sides of the therapy room, I have come to appreciate the value of therapy beyond symptom relief and treatment approaches paying attention to how we relate to each other. I am also an accredited supervisor in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and experienced in working with other treatment models, including schema therapy, compassionate focused therapy, and dialectic behavioural therapy.

Following from lived experience, I have become more sensitive to the impact of profound loss and trauma. My Blog Series on Psychology Today's website deals with the grief of the unborn child and perinatal loss.