ABOUT
I’m Veronika Kloucek.
I help adults think about themselves more honestly.
UKCP & BACP senior accredited relational psychotherapist. Twelve years in private practice. Online across the UK and in person in Wimbledon, SW20.
I work with adults at every kind of place in life. Those who feel they’ve achieved a lot but somehow haven’t arrived. Those who feel quietly that they’ve failed. Those carrying old wounds. Those who have no idea what’s wrong but know that something is. People come for many reasons and each reason is honoured.
My practice is integrative and relational. I draw on contemporary relational psychoanalytic thinking, attachment and regulation theories, body-based and sensorimotor approaches to trauma, mindfulness, and the underpinning neuroscience and neurobiology. I tailor the work to the person rather than asking the person to fit the method.
I see individuals and couples. I work in English and Deutsch.
“What changes a person isn’t insight alone. It’s the experience of being met, slowly, accurately, over time, by another mind that’s paying real attention.”
Veronika
Trajectory
Three lives, one continuous thread.
I came to psychotherapy by a circuitous route. Fifteen years in international project management and marketing taught me the things business teaches: pragmatism, clarity, a tolerance for complexity, a feel for what is and is not negotiable. They turn out to matter in a consulting room too.
Ten years as a wellbeing professional taught me something else. As a senior yoga teacher and mindfulness instructor I came to understand how the body holds what the mind has not yet found words for, and how attentional practice changes what is possible inside a person.
Clinical training at The Minster Centre, an MA validated by Middlesex University, and several years working in NHS Mental Health Trusts taught me the rest. Or began to. The work continues.
Today, alongside my private practice, I lecture and examine on the MA in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling at the University of Roehampton.
Alongside professional training, my own life has done its share of teaching: a life lived across cultures and languages, the experience of being a stranger and a native at once, of arriving and beginning again. That lived experience sits inside the work, even when it never surfaces directly.
INFLUENces
The thinking that sits behind the work.
The names below give a flavour of the territory rather than a full bibliography: psychoanalytic, relational, somatic, attentional, contemplative. The work itself is what matters, and I’m always reading.
Sigmund Freud
Melanie Klein
Donald Winnicott
Wilfred Bion
John Bowlby
Daniel Stern
Philip Bromberg
Pat Ogden
Bessel van der Kolk
Gabor Maté
Stephen Porges
Daniel Siegel
Esther Perel
Brené Brown
Iain McGilchrist
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Patanjali
Ramana Maharshi
Training and Accreditation
Qualifications and continuing development.
Core Training & Development
The Minster Centre, London
MA in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling, validated by Middlesex University
The Minster Centre, London
Advanced Diploma, Diploma, and Certificate in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling
Anna Freud Centre
Certificate in Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT)
Tavistock & Portman Clinic
Certificate in Couples Work
Mindsight Institute
Certificate in Interpersonal Neurobiology
Bangor University
Certificate in Mindfulness Teacher Training (MBSR)
University of Cambridge
Certificate in Executive Coaching
NHS Mental Health Trusts
Clinical experience
Accreditations
UKCP
Registered Psychotherapist
BACP
Senior Accredited Member
BPC / DIT
Qualified Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy practitioner
EAP / ECP
European Certificate in Psychotherapy
YAP
Senior Yoga Instructor and Teacher Trainer
Continuous professional development is integral to my practice. I have conducted research into the lived experience of Uncertainty. Recent specialist training includes complex trauma and dissociation, the boarding-school experience, childhood sexual abuse, suicide and self-harm, post-slavery and intergenerational trauma.
Also At
The Village Clinic.
Alongside my private practice in Wimbledon, I consult at The Village Clinic, a private referral network of senior therapists.
Get in touch
Curious if we’d be a good fit?
I offer a free 15-minute initial conversation, online or by phone. A chance for us both to think together about whether my way of working would suit what you’re looking for.