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Find the right therapist for you
The Branch Academy is a collective of qualified therapists, counsellors and life coaches.
All the therapists in our collective have a minimum of 3 years experience and are registered members of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and adhere to their Ethical Frame work.
Diana Bankas Bouvery
Diana is a qualified counsellor and a member of both the Association of Christians in Counselling and Linked professionals(ACC) and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Diana offers private therapy sessions for adults, providing a safe, supportive, and confidential space where clients can explore their thoughts, feelings, and experiences at their own pace.
Diana's core approach is Person-Centered Therapy, grounded in the belief that each individual is the expert on their own experience and possesses the capacity for growth, self-understanding, and positive change when provided with the right therapeutic conditions. Alongside this, her approach is integrative, drawing on a range of therapeutic modalities to meet the unique needs of each client.
Diana's professional journey began in medical school, followed by work as a junior doctor in West Africa. This experience provided valuable insight into both physical and emotional wellbeing and fostered a deep appreciation of the complexity of human experience. Through her work in healthcare, Diana became increasingly interested in the psychological and emotional aspects of care, which led her to explore humanistic approaches to therapy. Her own journey of self-exploration and desire to better understand what it means to truly live authentically ultimately inspired her to pursue a career in counselling.
Through her training and experience, Diana has supported clients facing a wide range of challenges, helping them to develop greater self-awareness, strengthen relationships, and enhance their overall wellbeing. She believes that the therapeutic relationship is central to this process, offering a space where clients feel heard, valued, accepted, and understood.
Diana offers both short-term and long-term counselling for adults. Areas she commonly supports clients with include anxiety, depression, bereavement and loss, trauma, abuse, anger management, relationship difficulties, self-esteem, identity and cultural issues, spirituality, stress, health-related concerns, work-related challenges, redundancy, and mood difficulties.
As a qualified counsellor, Diana provides compassionate support and practical tools to help clients move towards greater clarity, resilience, self-understanding, and peace of mind.
Chris Brown
Chris is a qualified counsellor, accredited coach and Neuro Linguistic Programming practitioner.
Chris is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), and offers private therapy, coaching, mentoring or integrated therapy sessions for young people and adults.
My background
Chris has over fifteen years’ experience within the financial services industry and five years in property lettings and management. I have worked and led teams and projects in high-pressure, fast-paced environments across large global corporate firms and small boutique businesses. More recently, alongside his private practice, Chris has been working with a successful College in the Southeast of the UK as a Wellbeing Practitioner to the students and as a counsellor for a charity in his local community. Chris’s working life experience provides him with a wide and varied understanding of how the complexities of different environments may impact the health of a person both mentally, physically and behaviourally.
My approach and style –
Chris places his clients at the centre of a warm, open and professional environment where they are valued, listened to and well supported without judgement. His work is person centred and holistic offering a non-judgemental space that supports emotional wellbeing alongside practical, meaningful progress.
His empathetic approach allows clients to develop their own sense of self-worth and feel comfortable to share and process difficult or painful thoughts, feelings or situations.
Chris facilitates change by enabling clients to identify, explore and understand key areas of their life and the current challenges they face and draw upon their own experiences and inner resources to feel more fulfilled or satisfied from the experience.
Chris has an integrative approach to therapy and incorporates several ways of working to adapt his style according to the needs of each client. This may be a person-centred approach, allowing clients to be actively involved in exploring their past and developing their own healthier responses; Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help clients identify and address unhealthy patterns in their thoughts, behaviours and actions; Mindfulness to help calm anxious responses. Chris believes that therapy can also focus on developing the potential of his clients, and occasionally he may blend coaching into the process to offer a solution focused approach and existential style.
Coaching and Mentoring
I work as both a coach and mentor. I facilitate change and make myself available to individuals, groups or businesses who want to positively transform their life or workforce.
My sessions can be carried out in a variety of ways, including online video calls, face-to-face, walk and talk sessions. All my sessions are conducted in a confidential, non-judgemental manner and prove truthful, challenging and empowering. However, they are also engaging, interactive and fun.
As your coach and mentor, I support and empower you to analyse your life and discover what you really want. Through a series of focussed conversations, we will take time to work out who you are and what you really want your life to be like. We will discuss your goals, desires and aspirations in the various areas of your life.
We focus on your strengths, your needs, and the strategies that genuinely help you thrive.
Chris’s training in both Coaching and Counselling allows him to offer a flexible, integrated approach to his clients. Before working with Chris, he offers a discovery call to explore what you need and where you are on your journey and tailors your work together accordingly.
You can contact Chris on : chris@branchacedemy.org
Nova Saelthun
Nova is a qualified adult and children and young people counsellor and a member of the BACP.
Nova is a fully qualified counsellor working online, and face to face. With many years of experience and in-depth trainings, she is qualified to work with adults, children (8 years and up) and young people and offer sessions drawing from many modalities and working with a wide spectrum of challenges.
The foundation of her practice is Person-Centred; she believe you have the power to create the life you want and can offer you a safe space and help you find your way focusing on the here and now. Nova will support you with techniques and tools that suit you on this journey whilst working on the goals you set together. She will respect your pace and tailor her sessions to work for you.
Alongside running her own private practice she works as therapist in a SEND school setting with children and young people. She has worked as part of a counselling team at a performing arts school in South London, as well as providing long term counselling at a Women's Centre in London.
She offer both short term and long term counselling and she has extensive experience in supporting neurodivergent children and young people. Some of the issues she can help with are Anxiety, Depression, Disability, Health related issues, Identity issues, Loss, Menopause, Post-traumatic stress, Self-harm, Sexual identity, Stress, Work related issues as well as support for neurodivergent and LGBTQ+ individuals.
Your can contact Nova on : nova_saelthun@hotmail.com
or visit her website www.novasaelthuntherapy.com