Find a home within yourself through creative, compassionate and client-centred therapy.
Are you feeling…
Overwhelmed, powerless, angry, stressed, or anxious?
I support you in your mental health journey using a creative therapeutic approach that connects mind, body, and feelings, helping you:
Approach difficulties with clarity
Be in tune with mind, body, emotions
Address challenges in healthy ways
Therapies offered
Individual psychotherapy
This is for adults, adolescents to explore difficulties and receive support.
Social Narrative sessions
These are individual sessions to develop an understanding of your cultural, social, and political narrative over eight sessions.
Creative psychotherapy for children
If you seek services especially for children, see our page discussing this in more detail.
Languages English and Arabic
Format In person, or online
Cost Please enquire
Individual psychotherapy might be sought because you are experiencing some challenges in your life right now and you would like to receive support. Or, you might seek individual therapy to process current or past feelings of anxiety, traumatic experiences, bereavement, or identity issues. Either way, individual therapy is there to listen to you and support you alone.
Social Narrative therapy, is a unique ten-sessions to address the effects of culture, society, and beliefs on your upbringing and mental health. This is often the preferred choice for those who have immigrated, been displaced, or come from minority backgrounds.
I work with adults and adolescents from different backgrounds in short and long term therapy.
What’s your therapy style?
Creative and culturally aware psychotherapy
I combine elements of psychodynamic psychotherapy alongside dramatherapy. That means that I weave physical movement, art, and metaphor into talking therapy to enable you to connect your thoughts and feelings to your body, and bring awareness to your unconscious process. I also highlight the dynamics of our therapist-client relationship as a tool to better understand other relationships in your life.
In my practice, I believe it’s an important part of your therapy to consider your cultural background and how that has been part of your story. I help you explore the effects of culture, society, identity and beliefs on your life and mental health.
I am committed to support you regardless of you background, race, religion, gender, sexuality, or age.
Let’s bring your body into therapy
Have you ever smelled something that brought a whole host of memories back? Memories that would have otherwise not been easy to summon? That is because our body is with us as we go through every moment of our lives. It houses our being. We process things as much physically as we do with our thoughts and feelings, and our body remembers these experiences. Connecting with the body allows us to be in tune with and at home within ourselves, which is essential to our wellbeing. This is where dramatherapy intersects with your psychotherapy to bring greater awareness to your body.
Find your home
We all go through times in our lives where we struggle to feel grounded and sure of ourselves. In other words, we don’t feel at home within ourselves.
For some, this is something that has been an issue their whole lives, and for others, it’s something that comes around during times of stress.
Whether you would like to find your home for the first time or would like to get back to it, I can help you get there, because I engage all the important parts of who you are: your mind, body, feelings, and your unconscious. I do this through using movement and art to tap into those parts of yourself buried deep down and by making you aware of how you experience your emotions in your body.
About me
Hi, I’m Nardine Khalil.
I set up my practice to reach out to individuals who struggle to feel at home within themselves, or in their communities.
I am passionate about using creative approaches to therapy and body movement to help us understand our unconscious processes and physical responses. I am particularly interested in working with individuals who struggle with identity issues due to factors of race, religion, politics, culture or language; individuals who feel like they don’t belong.
I believe in empathic, non-judgmental, and supportive therapy that integrates the mind, body, and emotions to help you feel at home within yourself and to provide a space to explore how our cultural, social, and political background effects our mental health.
I have experience working with individuals from different backgrounds, with teens, students, and adults. I have worked for the NHS, in schools, and in refugee services. I am a trainee Psychodynamic Psychotherapist and Counsellor (BACP), and a licensed Dramatherapist (HCPC).
My in-person therapy work is based in North London.
How it works
Schedule a free consultation.
Fill out the form at the bottom of the page, and I will follow up within 48 hours to schedule a 30-minute consultation to discuss your needs and preferences.
Book an assessment session.
During this session, we can meet in person or online and discuss further why you are seeking support at this time.
Start your therapy.
Together, we will build a therapy plan to address issues that concern you and work toward integrative mental health.
Let’s get started.
Send me a note to schedule a free 30-minute consultation, book an assessment session, and begin your customised individual or group therapy.
Nardine Khalil
Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy, MSc, Student BACP
Dramatherapist, MA, HCPC-Arts-Therapist
Locations:
Islington London