Find a home within yourself
Through creative, compassionate and culturally sensitive therapy.
Whether you're feeling overwhelmed, powerless, angry or anxious, therapy can provide a space to be understood and supported without judgement.
Through a caring, psychoanalytically informed approach, we can work towards greater connection between mind, body, and emotion and a more grounded sense of inner home.
Therapy Offered
Individual Psychotherapy
At times, life can feel difficult to navigate alone. You may be facing a current challenge, struggling with anxiety, working through the impact of past experiences, grieving a loss, or exploring questions about your identity and sense of self.
Individual psychotherapy offers a confidential and supportive space where you can slow down, reflect, and make sense of your experiences. Together, we can explore what matters most to you, helping you develop greater understanding, resilience, and connection with yourself and others.
Social Narrative Therapy
Our stories are shaped not only by our personal experiences, but also by the cultures, communities, and beliefs that surround us. Social Narrative Therapy is a structured ten-session programme that explores how these wider influences have shaped your sense of self, relationships, and emotional wellbeing.
This approach is often particularly meaningful for people who have immigrated, experienced displacement, or grown up navigating multiple cultures or minority identities. Together, we will explore the stories you have inherited, the challenges you have faced, and the values and strengths that can guide you forward.
Languages English and Arabic
Format In person or online
Fees £100 per session
Concessions A limited number of reduced-fee spaces are available. Please get in touch to enquire.
What’s your therapy style?
Therapy that Honours Your Story
Who we become is shaped by far more than our individual experiences. Family, culture, race, politics, migration, faith, gender, sexuality, language, and the communities we belong to all leave their mark on our inner world. These experiences can influence our relationships, identity, and emotional wellbeing in ways that are often outside our conscious awareness.
Psychodynamic therapy helps bring these unconscious processes into awareness, creating space to understand yourself with greater depth and compassion. Alongside this, I integrate creative approaches such as stories, movement, imagery, and metaphor to help connect thoughts, emotions, and bodily experiences when words alone are not enough.
Bring Your Body Into Therapy
Have you ever smelled something that instantly brought back a memory you hadn't thought about in years? Before you've even had time to think, something in you has already responded.
Your body is the home that has been with you through every chapter of your life. It is where thoughts, feelings, and unconscious processes are lived and expressed. Sometimes experiences that are difficult to put into words are communicated through sensations, movement, or the way we hold ourselves, long before they reach conscious awareness.
This is where dramatherapy meets psychotherapy. By bringing gentle attention to your sensory experiences through movement, imagery, and metaphor, alongside talking therapy, we can begin to make sense of what your unconscious is communicating. As mind, body, and emotions come back into conversation with one another, therapy can deepen your understanding of yourself and help you feel more at home within yourself.
About me
Hi, I’m Nardine Khalil (she/her)
Psychodynamic Psychotherapist, Counsellor, and Dramatherapist
I set up my practice to reach out to individuals who struggle to feel at home within themselves, or within their communities. I aim to offer a connected and non-judgemental space to explore your inner life, and to approach with care the experiences that may leave you feeling alienated from the world around you. My hope is that this work helps you find your ‘diyar’ ديار your place of belonging, your homeland, your dwelling place, in every sense of the word.
A central focus of my practice is identity and belonging—how we come to understand ourselves through the influence of race, culture, religion, politics, language, and sexuality, and how these experiences can shape our sense of self, sometimes leaving us feeling disconnected.
Alongside my private practice, I have worked in the NHS, schools, and refugee services, experiences that have shaped my understanding of the many ways people navigate emotional challenges. My work has included supporting individuals affected by war, displacement, and trauma, always with a trauma-informed approach. I also work with the emotional complexities of parenting, particularly where these intersect with cultural expectations, migration, and the experience of raising children across different worlds and ways of life.
My in-person therapy work is based in North London.
How it works
1
Schedule a free consultation
Complete the contact form below to arrange a complimentary 20-minute consultation. This is an opportunity for us to meet each other, explore what brings you to therapy, discuss your hopes and needs, and consider any practical questions.
2
Attend an initial assessment
In this session, we'll talk about your background, current circumstances, and any challenges you may be facing. This session also gives us an opportunity to get to know one another, helping us build a shared understanding of how therapy can support you.
3
Start your therapy
Once we've established a shared understanding of your needs and goals, we'll begin weekly 50-minute sessions. Together, we'll explore your experiences in a supportive, confidential space and work towards meaningful change at a pace that feels right for you.
Let’s get started.
Send me a note to schedule a free 20-minute consultation, book an assessment session, and begin your customised individual therapy.
Nardine Khalil
Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy, MSc, MBACP
Dramatherapist, MA
Locations:
London
