Start where you are.
Welcome. My name is Constantina Stamou and I practice attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Bounds Green, North East London. I offer short- and long-term psychotherapy sessions in a compassionate, confidential, and professional space, where you can explore your experiences, build resilience, and gain clarity at your own pace. If you would like to find out if psychotherapy sessions are the right thing for you, please, feel free to contact me.
What is Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy helps people understand what happened to them in-depth, what informs their current thinking and feelings, and what has been influencing their decisions so far.
Its purpose is to offer support as clients navigate mental health challenges such as anxiety, depression, trauma, loneliness, isolation, life transitions, major life events, bereavement, low self-esteem and identity struggles.
At the core of psychotherapy is the steady, secure and safe relationship with the therapist, the secure base, which allows people to experience feeling seen, heard and understood, and gives them an opportunity to develop resilience and heal.
Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy is greatly informed by attachment theory research, psychoanalysis, trauma research, neuroscience, race, disability, and gender studies.
Psychotherapy services
Long-term Psychotherapy
£60 per session. Concessions available.
Long-term psychotherapy sessions take place often for as long as you want to continue having sessions, they last for 50 mins and they take place once or twice a week at a specific time each week face-to-face. Once a week sessions take place either face-to-face at Bounds Green or online. Twice a week sessions are conducted face-to-face at Bounds Green.
Challenges that we can takle with long-term psychotherapy include, though are not limited to, depression, anxiety, trauma, PTSD, abuse, bereavement, loss, grief, loneliness, isolation, identity struggles, low confidence and self esteem, challenges with parenting, family, relationships, illness, life transitions, major life events.
Short-term Psychotherapy
£60 per session. Concessions available.
Short-term psychotherapy lasts for 6 months and is suitable for clients who are looking to focus on a specific situation in their life. Sessions take place once a week, either face-to-face at Bounds Green or online, and last for 50 mins. The process is similar to long-term psychotherapy as we explore your past experiences while remaining grounded in the present.
Challenges we can tackle include, though are not limited to, stress, anxiety, uncertainty, overwhelm, fear, low confidence, relationship challenges, work and career challenges, loneliness and isolation, low self-esteem.
My approach
My work is grounded in an attachment-based psychoanalytic framework. I pay close attention to the ways early relationships—particularly with caregivers—shape how we relate to ourselves, others, and the world around us. These early patterns can show up in the present in ways that feel confusing, stuck, or painful. I aim to create a space where these experiences can be noticed, explored, and gently understood.
I offer a private and non-judgmental space where you can bring what hurts, what feels tangled, or what’s never been spoken aloud. Together, we make sense of your experiences at a pace that feels right for you. I believe change does not come from being told what to do, but from feeling truly heard and understood.
This is a relational process, and I see therapy as something we co-create. I attend not only to what is said, but also to what remains unspoken. Some of the most meaningful insights emerge not from explanation, but from being alongside each other in honest reflection.
I work with both short- and long-term needs. Some clients want to navigate a specific challenge or life transition; others come with longstanding patterns or relational pain they’re ready to explore more deeply. Either way, we begin with where you are now.
My approach is also shaped by a trauma-informed stance. I understand that our adaptations—however confusing or distressing—have often helped us survive, and I hold them with care. I’m sensitive to how systemic issues like oppression, marginalisation, and discrimination can leave lasting marks on how we feel and function. I strive to maintain a practice that is thoughtful, inclusive, and welcoming of difference.
Ultimately, my aim is to support you in developing a deeper relationship with yourself: one that holds complexity with compassion, and makes room for clarity, connection, and change.
About me
I am currently training at The Bowlby Centre as an Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, I am registered with UKCP as a trainee, and I attend weekly supervision.
In addition, I have been supporting people with mental health challenges from the severe end of the mental health spectrum for a number of years as a support worker for a well-known mental health charity, and I am a Mental Health First Aider.
I hold academic degrees in language studies (BA (Hons) and PhD), qualifications in NLP, Life & Relationship coaching, Pilates and fitness, and I speak English and Greek.
I work with adults of all ages from diverse cultural, national and financial backgrounds as well as sexual orientations, and I maintain an inclusive therapeutic practice.
What mainly informs my work is my passions for psychotherapy, for learning, and for deeply understanding the world and people.
Contact Us
Interested in working together? You can send me a message and I will be in touch shortly.