About
Welcome to My Practice
I am Dr Sonney Gullu-McPhee, an HCPC and BPS Registered Chartered Clinical Psychologist and ISST Certified Advanced Schema Therapist based in Petersfield, Hampshire.
I have completed ISST-accredited Schema Therapy supervisor training and am working towards formal ISST Supervisor certification. I have also undertaken postdoctoral training in Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR).
I provide individual psychological therapy for adults, both in person in Petersfield and online across the UK. Fluent in English and Turkish, I offer bilingual and culturally sensitive therapy that considers your personal history, relationships, cultural identity and wider life context.
My Approach
My approach is collaborative, compassionate and guided by an individualised psychological formulation. Rather than focusing only on symptoms, we work together to understand how your difficulties developed, what may be maintaining them and what needs to change.
I integrate Schema Therapy with EMDR, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy and DBT-informed approaches, depending on your needs and therapeutic goals.
Schema Therapy
Schema Therapy can help you understand and change longstanding emotional and relationship patterns that may have developed through early experiences and unmet emotional needs.
These patterns can affect how you see yourself, relate to others and respond to difficult situations. They may contribute to low self-esteem, shame, self-criticism, emotional difficulties or repeated relationship problems.
Through therapy, we work to recognise these patterns, understand their origins and develop healthier, more compassionate ways of meeting your emotional needs.
EMDR
EMDR is an evidence-based therapy that can help process distressing or unresolved experiences that continue to feel emotionally overwhelming or “stuck”.
I use EMDR carefully and at a pace suited to you, with appropriate preparation, stabilisation and grounding before trauma processing begins.
Areas I Work With
I work with anxiety, depression, trauma and PTSD, low self-esteem, shame, relationship and attachment difficulties, ADHD-related emotional difficulties, grief, work-related stress and significant life transitions.
Taking the First Step
Therapy begins with a comprehensive assessment so that we can develop a clear, shared understanding of your difficulties and agree on an individualised treatment plan.
Please get in touch if you would like to explore whether my approach may be suitable for you.