Melanie Clews is a Group Analyst and Psychotherapist offering group psychotherapy and individual psychotherapy in London, and also on-line. As an adult psychotherapist Melanie offers an approach to her psychotherapy practice that is based on a wide range of professional experience and skill having worked in different sectors in mental health – in the NHS as a Specialist Adult Psychotherapist, in private practice, the third sector and in a university setting.
She also holds an advanced qualification as a Training Group Analyst for the Institute of Group Analysis. As a Training Group Analyst Melanie offers group psychotherapy to people who are training to become and work as a group therapist/group analyst, and/or those who are preparing or who intend to train. She offers consultations to anyone wishing to have a space to think about and explore future training.
Melanie Clews has experience in working with young adults individually and in groups; and has offered group therapy for themes relating to relationships, sexuality, sexual identity and gender. In addition, she has extensive experience of working with issues relating to loss and bereavement.
Melanie works in private practice in North West London and on-line.
“It is my belief that talking and thinking together with an experienced therapist, in a confidential and safe therapeutic environment, can offer the possibility of developing new ways of thinking, understanding and insight into patterns of relating – allowing a space for change in the present and hope for the future.” Melanie Clews
* Group Analyst and Psychotherapist
* Training Group Analyst (Institute of Group Analysis)
* MA (Academic), MSc Group Analysis & Full Memb Institute of Group Analysis, UKCP Reg
* Full Member GAN London (previous Chair)
* Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy Training Part 1 (Anna Freud Centre)
* Psychosexual Studies Cert. (Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships)
* Member of the London Courses Committee for the Institute of Group Analysis since 2016
* Supervisor (Diploma in Supervision – ‘Using the Group as the Medium of Supervision’ – Institute of Group Analysis 2018
Publications
Book review: Applications of Group Analysis for the Twenty-First Century
Volume: 52 issue: 2, page(s): 264-266
Article first published online: March 12, 2019; Issue published: June 1, 2019
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0533316419831484
