Sophia Berouka Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Soho, Central London

Sophia Berouka — psychoanalyst, counsellor and psychotherapist

I am a psychoanalyst working in the Lacanian orientation, a qualified psychodynamic counsellor and psychotherapist, and an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

I offer counselling, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in English and Greek for adults and adolescents in Soho, Central London.

My clinical work is informed by ongoing psychoanalytic study, supervision and personal analysis. I participate actively in the clinical and theoretical work of the London Society, the New Lacanian School and the World Association of Psychoanalysis.

Qualifications and Memberships

• Member of the London Society of the New Lacanian School, the NLS and the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP)
• Attended the Seminar and Training Programme in Lacanian Psychoanalysis at the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research from 2007-2015
• MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy (Birkbeck, University of London)
• PgDip in Psychodynamic Counselling (Birkbeck, University of London)
• MA in Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Society (Brunel University, London)
• Training in Bereavement Counselling (CELBS, Bart's and the London NHS Trust)
• BSc(Hons)in Psychology (Deree, The American College of Greece)
  
  I am an Accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and abide by the BACP ethical framework for counselling and psychotherapy.

   

  

Clinical experience

I have 15 years of clinical experience across private practice, the NHS, psychotherapy services, universities and three nationwide employee assistance programmes. Alongside my private practice, for the last 4 years, I have been working as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist at the Priory Harley Street, seeing people with a wide range of difficulties, from more recent concerns to longstanding and complex problems. 

My work with employees has included supporting people affected by traumatic experiences in frontline roles, including the police, fire and ambulance services. I also work with burnout and other difficulties affecting working life.

Within the NHS, I worked for several years as a bereavement counsellor at Barts and The London NHS Trust. I have also worked as a psychotherapist in the Department of Psychological Medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and in the Outpatient Eating Disorders Unit at Springfield University Hospital.

Between 2011 and 2018, I worked as a counsellor and mental health mentor at several London universities, including through the Goldsmiths Wellbeing Project. This involved supporting students whose psychological or learning difficulties affected their experience of university and their studies.

From 2016 to 2019, I was part of a small team of psychoanalysts running Bubble and Speak, a drop-in space in South London for expectant and new mothers, parents, carers and young children. We listened to both children and adults as they spoke, played and encountered one another.

                                                                  PRESENTATIONS: 

• June 2026: "Moment", presentation at simultaneous sessions at the NLS Congress 2026: "Varity: Variations of Truth in Psychoanalysis".
• December 2024: Clinical Presentation at Knottings Seminar, London Society of the NLS.
• May 2024: “A Weight without Consistency” presentation at simultaneous sessions at the NLS Congress 2024: “Clinic of the Gaze”.
• May 2023: Black and White Photographies, presentation at simultaneous sessions at the NLS Congress 2023: “Discontent and Anxiety in the Clinic and in Civilisation”.
• March 2023: The plus-one and the experience of the 'bar’ in the cartel, paper presented at the NLS Cartel Event “Rendez-Vous with (my) Plus-One”.
• March 2023: “To build my own...”,  presentation at the Clinical Conversation Series, London Society of the NLS.
• February 2023: Case presentation for the event: “Sexual Identities in Transit: A Contemporary Question”.
• June 2022: The Concept of Repetition in J-A Miller’s Seminar ‘Being and the One’, presentation, London Society seminar series “The Castration Complex, Fixation and Repetition”.
• January 2022: “The White Shadow”, clinical case presented at the Clinical Conversation Series, London Society of the NLS.
• December 2021: What Cannot be Traversed is Jouissance, paper presented at Reading Seminar of “Being and the One” by J-A Miller, LS.
• December 2020: Three Distinctions in chapters 4 to 6 of the Analysts’ Banquet, paper presented at reading seminar “The Banquet of the Analysts” by J-A Miller.
• January 2020: Subject, Society, School, paper presented at study day with Alexandre Stevens at the London Society of the NLS.
• October 2019: Uses of the Dream in Lacanian Practice, paper presented at “The Dream: Interpretation and Use: A research Seminar towards the WAP Congress”, London Society of the NLS.
• May 2018: Exits and Gaps in Mass Psychology, paper presented at event on Mass Psychology, London Society of the NLS: Laboratory of Lacanian Politics

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