Psychological Therapy in the City of London and Online

Malin Sellden

I'm a Chartered Counselling Psychologist, accredited EMDR and CBT Therapist and trauma specialist. I work with PTSD, Complex and Developmental trauma, and have over 20 years' experience in the NHS, higher education and private practice.

Whatever brings someone to therapy, I look not only at the difficulty itself but use a trauma lens on the experiences that have contributed to its development:

Anxiety can carry the imprint of a time when the world felt unpredictable or unsafe.
OCD can gather force around an old sense of danger or excessive responsibility.
Low self-esteem, self-criticism and perfectionism often echo earlier messages about worth and acceptability.
Grief and loss can reawaken earlier losses, or be complicated by the circumstances in which they happened.
I also work with depression and low mood, and with relationship difficulties.

While not every challenge stems from trauma, I’ve found that true, lasting change happens when we understand how our past shaped our current beliefs, and then change the meaning we give to those stories. These experiences are not always obvious, and can have a subconscious impact on our emotional state, ways of thinking, and behaving—even for someone with a successful career and a life that appears together on the outside.

I draw on EMDR, CBT and Attachment-informed approaches, alongside Compassion Focused Therapy, ACT and Internal Family Systems (IFS), tailored to each person, including neurodivergent ways of thinking and communicating.

Being born and raised in Sweden I also offer sessions in Swedish.