Sophia Ploumaki, UKCP Accredited Psychotherapist

Sophia Ploumaki

Twickenham TW1 English, Greek
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Sophia Ploumaki, UKCP Accredited Psychotherapist

Sophia Ploumaki

Twickenham TW1 English, Greek
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My Approach

I work psychodynamically, helping individuals understand the hidden meanings behind thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. I support clients to make sense of recurring relational difficulties, emotional turbulence, and internal conflict—often rooted in earlier life experiences. My work emphasises containment, the therapeutic relationship, and pacing interventions to suit individual readiness and capacity. My approach is predominantly psychodynamic and psychoanalytic. I use an integrative and tailored to the individual, group or team approach aiming to explore the nature and degree of difficulty and support the person to reach a comfortable awareness of the issues they are struggling with. I am contextually focused and I do a lot of therapeutic work with people who have been surviving non recent traumas. I support people through gentle exploration to regain their life control, power and find their voice. When I work with organisations I use a systemically and psychodynamically informed lens that supports the understanding of the individual's valency in generating and replicating familial patterns of behaviour. In my work with Families I use a combination of Family mediation principles and systemic approaches to conflict resolution to support a more collaborative, outcome focused approach to family conflict.
Alongside my therapy practice, I am a qualified family and workplace mediator, bringing a systemic and relational lens to conflict resolution. This includes experience mediating complex dynamics within families, work environments, and healthcare teams, particularly where psychological distress or trauma plays a role in communication breakdowns.

Therapeutic Values

I believe that long-term healing arises from being deeply heard and understood, often for the first time. I offer a grounded, empathic presence and work collaboratively with clients at their own pace. My practice is trauma-informed, sensitive to power dynamics, and responsive to the legacy of neglect, rupture, or betrayal.

Client Group

- Adults (18+)
- Individuals with complex needs, including those often described as "hard to engage"
- Professionals (especially healthcare, legal, and education sectors)
- Survivors of institutional or childhood abuse

Training and Accreditation

- Advanced Clinical Training in Group and individual Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
- NHS Accredited Practitioner (Complex Mental Health Services)
- Accredited Mediator (Family & Workplace Mediation – FMC Registered)
- Regular supervision and CPD in trauma, personality disorder, and relational practice

About Me

I am a highly experienced psychodynamic analytic psychotherapist with a longstanding career in NHS specialist services, offering depth-oriented therapy for adults facing complex emotional and psychological challenges. My clinical approach is rooted in psychoanalytic principles, providing a reflective space to explore unconscious processes, relational patterns, and the impact of early experiences on current functioning.

With extensive experience working within secondary and tertiary NHS mental health services, I have developed specialist expertise in supporting individuals with complex trauma histories, particularly those relating to non-recent abuse, developmental trauma, and borderline personality disorder (BPD) presentations.

I work with

  • Companies
  • Couples
  • Families
  • Groups
  • Individuals
  • Private healthcare referrals

Special Interests

Like all UKCP registered psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors I can work with a wide range of issues, but here are some areas in which I have a special interest or additional experience.

Non-recent trauma and abuse (including CSA, institutional, and relational trauma) - Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and emotional dysregulation - Attachment trauma and relational disturbances - Identity, self-worth, and chronic shame - NHS frontline staff support and reflective practice - Therapy for those with complex relationships with services I have years of experience in working with survivors of childhood sexual abuse and have a special interest in the area of traumatogenesis
I have worked with highly complex organisational systems and have supported clients who have experience of bullying and harassment and work. I offer role consultations and coaching to people who experience employment difficulties or want to be coached for their next roles in any industry.
working withe people who experience anger as a way of copying with intimacy.
I Work with neurodivergent and eating disorders people who struggle to come to terms with gender identity issues. I have intense interest in working within the LGBTQI community groups.
extensive knowledge and experience with working with non cis men and women

Types of Therapies Offered

  • Analytical Psychotherapist
  • Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
  • Group Analytic Psychotherapist

What I can help with

  • Abuse
  • Addiction
  • Anger Management
  • Anxiety
  • Bulimia
  • Couple Issues
  • Depression
  • Domestic Violence
  • Employment Difficulties
  • Gender
  • Identity Problems
  • Mental Health Issues
  • Online Counselling
  • Parents
  • Physical Abuse
  • Private Practice Issues
  • Relationships
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Sexuality
  • Stress
  • Suicide
  • Supervision
  • Training
  • Transgender
  • Trauma
  • Workplace Counselling

Types of sessions

  • Face to Face - Long Term
  • Online Therapy

Twickenham Office

Twickenham
Twickenham TW1 4ES
UK

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UKCP College

  • Universities Training College (UTC)
Sophia Ploumaki

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