Julia Dryden

Julia Dryden is a qualified Psychotherapist with the Society of Analytical Psychology and an Accredited Analyst with the International Association of Analytical Psychology, practicing from East Hill Psychotherapy in Wandsworth Town, London. She is registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council, the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapists, and is a member of the Forum of Independent Psychotherapists. Her analytic orientation is Jungian with a psychoanalytically informed sensibility, drawing on the tradition of close attention to the therapeutic relationship and the unconscious dimensions of experience.

Dryden holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy from the Westminster Pastoral Foundation and a Post Graduate Diploma in Integrative Counselling, university validated and accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She brings over fifteen years of clinical mental health experience, complemented by twenty years of work in the third sector, which has given her sustained engagement with the systemic and social dimensions of psychological distress.

Her practice addresses depression, self-esteem, panic attacks, anxiety, stress, bullying, addictions, suicidal ideation, bereavement, family and relationship concerns, career transitions, and perinatal mental health including postnatal depression and the psychological dimensions of pregnancy and parenthood. She operates under the ethical codes of both the BPC and the UKCP, maintaining the strictest confidentiality in her therapeutic work.