Embark on your path to mental health balance
Billi Silverstein Psychotherapy
Counselling and Clinical Supervision
Clients reach out to my services when they experience stress, anxiety, trauma or loss. Sometimes the presentation of these show-up in behaviours linked to OCD or eating disorders. I studied integrative psychotherapy which means I integrate humanistic, psychodynamic and behavioural methods in all the work I do. Through my experience, I am able to draw on any of the modalities which feels appropriate and authentic.
Because all therapy is based on the therapeutic relationship itself, together we work out what is useful in identifying patterns of behaviour and thereby look to challenge core beliefs in line with values.
Psychotherapist Carl Jung said “We cannot change anything until we accept it”. The ultimate aim is to promote a life of balance.
If you are reading this then you are probably curious to know whether a therapeutic alliance with me could be of benefit to you, and therefore you have already taken the first step to encourage change.
I invite you to attend a consultation with me where we work out if I can be of service to your needs. I work with all adults fully inclusively. My sessions last 50 minutes and usually run weekly.
I use my experience to help my clients expand and improve their emotional skills. My mission is to explore diversity of experience with empathy and without judgement. My endeavour is to enable you to live a life free of emotional burden.
Billi Silverstein
MBACP (Snr. Accred) DABCH MCAHyp
Why My Approach in Psychotherapy Is Different!
The difference is not simply that I work in depth, but in how that depth is held and explored. Rather than treating symptoms as problems to be removed, I see them as meaningful defences that offer clues to what is shaping your current experience. The work begins by investigating these responses as evidence of why you relate to the world in the way that you do.
This may involve examining family of origin, early relational environments and the wider context in which patterns first formed. The focus, however, is on how these experiences continue to organise the present. Patterns that once served a purpose can remain active long after their original context has passed, often outside of awareness.
The work is active, engaged and at times direct. I do not take a passive or purely observational role. There is a quality of frankness, alongside a steady and disciplined curiosity about what sits beneath what is being presented. This can feel clarifying, but also uncomfortable.
Over time, a clearer sense of the underlying logic begins to emerge. Ways of thinking, feeling and responding that may once have been necessary can start to be understood in a different light. The aim is not to remove them, but to understand them well enough for something else to become possible.
What defines my work is a close attention to detail and a shared enquiry into what is unfolding beneath the surface. It is through this that what may initially feel unclear begins to fall into place in a way that is both coherent and meaningful.
This way of working has been recognised through the GHP Mental Health Awards, where I was named Psychotherapist of the Year, Central London, in both 2025 and 2026.