Psychotherapist, Counsellor, and Supervisor offering Individual and Couples Therapy in West Hampstead, North West London, and Online
Piero Dell’Anno - BA. MA. PgDip. MSc. Dip. Cert. MSc. Cert.
Compassionate and Relational Gestalt Therapy
Welcome to my website. I hope you can find herewith some useful information about myself and the way I work to support the well-being of my clients.
As a UKCP-registered Clinical Psychotherapist, Counsellor, and Supervisor, and a registered Psychologist with the Italian Board of Psychologists, I offer psychotherapy in West Hampstead, North West London, Farringdon, Central London, and online.
For more than 15 years, I have worked alongside individuals who are looking for greater self-understanding, emotional healing, and lasting change. Whether you are experiencing anxiety, relationship difficulties, life transitions, loss, stress, or a sense that something in your life needs attention, therapy can provide a space to pause, reflect, and reconnect with yourself.
My approach is grounded in Relational Gestalt Psychotherapy and Somatic awareness. This means that together we explore not only your thoughts and emotions, but also how your experiences are expressed and held within your body. By bringing awareness to both mind and body, we can uncover deeper patterns, access new insights, and support meaningful transformation.
I believe that therapy is most effective when it is built on a genuine and trusting relationship. Creating a safe, respectful, and non-judgmental space is at the heart of my work, allowing you to feel heard, understood, and supported throughout the therapeutic process.
In our sessions, you are welcome to bring whatever feels important to you—thoughts, emotions, questions, challenges, or uncertainties. Together, we will explore your experiences with curiosity, compassion, and care, helping you develop a deeper understanding of yourself and discover new possibilities for growth and change.
I offer face-to-face sessions in West Hampstead and Farringdon, as well as online appointments, providing flexibility so that therapy can fit comfortably into your life.
I aim to offer a relationship built on empathy, openness, and authenticity. Within this supportive environment, you may begin to notice patterns, connect more fully with your emotions, and develop greater awareness of yourself and your needs.
My role is not to direct your life, but to walk alongside you — supporting you as you discover your own resources, strengths, and possibilities for change. I see therapy as a collaborative process. We work together with mutual respect, creating a relationship where your voice, experience and pace are honoured.
Psychotherapy can help you face pain, struggles, and life transitions, while also opening space for growth, meaning, and renewed vitality. In this shared journey, we explore both the challenges you carry and the possibilities that may be waiting to unfold.
Over time, therapy can support the development of a deeper sense of connection — both with yourself and with others. Rather than fostering dependence, the aim is to cultivate a sense of healthy interdependence and inner support, helping you move through life with greater awareness, resilience, and freedom.
Feel free to give me a call on 07768 759390 or fill out the contact form if you'd like to arrange an appointment, or if you have any questions.
Creating a Supportive Space for Growth
At the heart of my work as a clinical psychotherapist is a deep respect for the human experience of navigating uncertainty, change, and vulnerability while seeking a life that feels meaningful and authentic.
Beginning therapy can feel both exposing and uncertain. Reaching out is often a significant step — an act of courage that reflects a willingness to turn toward yourself and what matters most. It is an invitation into a process of discovery, growth, and deeper connection.
I see therapy as a relational encounter in which we meet as two human beings, each bringing our presence to the work. Together, we create a space where you can explore your experience as it unfolds in the moment. We pay attention to both your thoughts and emotions,and to the wisdom of your body, the patterns that shape your relationships, and what emerges between us in the therapeutic relationship itself.
Grounded in Gestalt and existential psychotherapy, I understand healing as arising through awareness, presence, and contact with lived experience. Rather than focusing solely on why things are the way they are, we become curious about how you are experiencing yourself and your world right now, and what new possibilities may become available through that awareness.
Therapy is not a process of fixing something that is wrong with you. Instead, it is an exploration of who you are, how you have come to be this way, and who you may be becoming. Through authentic dialogue and embodied awareness, we gently explore patterns, beliefs, and ways of relating that may once have been necessary or protective but now feel constraining.
As awareness deepens, space can open for greater choice, freedom, and responsibility, as well as a more vital and connected relationship with yourself and others.
Clients often tell me they feel genuinely met in our work — listened to with care, accompanied with respect, and welcomed without judgment. I hold the therapeutic relationship as a living, evolving process, grounded in warmth, curiosity, and openness. It is within this shared relational field that meaningful change, growth, and new ways of being can emerge.
The Therapy Process
Therapy is a collaborative process, a process of discovery, transformation and growth. I believe our suffering can be transformed into beauty. The causes of our suffering are often the results of how well equipped we have been to deal with life events, our families, the environment, friends, education and relationships. I believe we always thrive to deal with life the best we can.
A Nourishing Experience
Witnessing clients move through periods of difficulty, discover new possibilities, and reconnect with their own vitality is one of the most meaningful aspects of my work. I am continually inspired by the courage it takes to meet life's challenges with openness and curiosity, and by the unique ways people grow when given the space and support to do so.
I work with individuals and couples using a relational Gestalt and humanistic approach, offering a compassionate, confidential, and collaborative space in which to explore whatever may be calling for attention. Whether you are experiencing a specific crisis, feeling stuck in familiar patterns, navigating a life transition, or seeking a deeper connection with yourself or others, therapy can provide an opportunity to pause, reflect, and engage more fully with your lived experience.
Together, we attend to what is present in the moment—your thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, and relational experiences—creating space for greater awareness, choice, and new ways of being. My intention is to offer a supportive and respectful environment where you feel genuinely met, allowing the work to unfold at a pace that feels right for you.
Areas I Can Help With
I have high levels in working with a number of issues, including anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, sexual abuse, gender identity and LGBTQIA+ issues, Gender, Sexual and Relationship Diversity (GSRD) and bereavement. I also offer Couples Therapy to those who suffer from attachment-relational trauma and have difficulty expressing their emotions and feelings.
Professional Standards and Insurance
I am registered with the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). The UKCP is accredited by the Professional Standards Authority. As such, I am committed to the highest professional standards. I work with many insurances, please take a few minutes to browse through the Fees, Terms & Conditions section of this website to check the insurances I work with.
Contact Me
Finding the right therapist is an important step and I hope that you find the information provided here helpful. I work with individuals as well as couples and I see clients in West Hampstead, Farringdon, or Online.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you believe I could offer support during this challenging time.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Anxiety, stress and panic attacks
- Depression, loss and bereavement
- Difficulty dealing with and expressing emotions
- Couple therapy and relationship issues
- Gender Sexual and Relationship Diversity (GSRD)
- Developmental trauma
- Parenting and attachment issues
- Post-natal depression
- Sexual and gender identity issues
- LGBTQIA+ issues
- Work-related issues
- Low self-esteem
- Anger management
If you would like some more detail on how I can help you with the above issues, feel free to take a look at my Areas I Help With page.
As a psychotherapist and counsellor in West Hampstead, Farringdon and Central London, I use Relational Gestalt Psychotherapy and Humanistic Counselling to work with clients. I take extreme care to give you dedicated space of loving kindness, and understanding. I will always be mindful of your struggle and support you fully on your journey towards expanding your awareness and becoming who you truly are.
I believe that human nature is inherently good and everyone has the potential to find their own answers to their problems. I aim to support you to be fully transparent, to explore your feelings and to speak openly. In my capacity as your therapist I envisage to offer you empathy and congruence, to support you to be open and authentic and to accept you as you are.
Your well-being is at the core of my work. Like sunflowers, we have an innate tendency to turn towards energy and light. Sometimes we lose sight of this. I am passionate about supporting clients to unlock that skill again – to increase their presence, attunement with others, and rediscover what gives them life and what life gives them.
As a Gestalt Relational therapist I will support you to explore the role relationships play in the shaping of your daily experiences. Together we will attempt to understand patterns appearing in your thoughts and feelings toward yourself and toward others.
Strong and fulfilling relationships with others can help maintain emotional well-being, reduce emotional distress, especially when distress occurs as a result of relational concerns.
For more information on the ways I can work with you, head over to my How I Work page.
I work with adults of all genders, sexual orientations, and ethnic backgrounds. I have experience working with people in various professions, such as: education, the arts, health, finance, law, and business. I also have expertise with LGBTQIA+ matters.
Working with couples is another significant part of my practice. In couple psychotherapy people experience that to be in relation to another, implies to accept and to be accepted, to be listened and to listen and to suspend judgment, as a way to co-create new relational opportunities.
To make sure you are comfortable with me and get a sense that I’m the right counsellor and psychotherapist for you, I offer a free initial 30-minute consultation, with no obligation to have further sessions if it doesn’t feel right.
This is your chance to speak freely about the problems you are facing; you also don’t have to go into detail if you aren’t ready to do so. I will explain a little bit more about how I will work with you during this call and we will establish is we will meet face to face or online.
“Presence is our openness to the unfolding of possibilities. Attunement is how we focus our attentions on others and take their essence into our own inner world.” — Daniel Siegel
I am here to support you in your journey towards rediscovering the essence of your own inner world. We are all equipped to thrive, but don’t always know how, and counselling and psychotherapy help you on that journey towards self-discovery, self-appreciation, and love towards yourself and others. It helps you discover who you really are and how to build long-lasting relationships with others.
Our sessions together are about sharing thoughts, emotions, and feelings, seeing life through a more compassionate, inclusive and kind lens, to learn how to be less judgmental of your difficulties and impasses and becoming less fearful of change. My role is to help you get closer to your core self, to accept – and not supress – who you are. To help with this process, I am extremely conscious of attunement, which means truly listening to you in a non-judgemental way, understand and support your needs to reach a better place.
Valuing diversity in every form and supporting equal opportunities for all genders, races and sexualities is a core aspect of my work as a counsellor and clinical psychotherapist.
We are all different, and, whoever we are, should be celebrated, seen, and valued. That is why I always take a strictly affirmative, intersectional approach to the clients I work with.
I have worked as a psychotherapist and counsellor in West Hampstead for many years in both the public and private sectors.
I started my career providing primary and tertiary care with the NHS and am now registered with the following private health insurers to provide counselling and therapy covered by their policies: Aviva, Axa PPP, Cigna, WPA and Vitality Health.
My Location
My practice is based in West Hampstead in North West London, less than a five-minute walk from West Hampstead underground station on the Jubilee line, Thameslink, and Overground, with easy access from stations such as Baker Street, Kentish Town, Swiss Cottage, Finchley Road, Cricklewood, Forest Green, Maida Vale, and Camden.
I can also see my clients in Mayfair as an associate of Clinical Partners and in Farringdon, Islington and Clerkenwell in Central London.
I am also able to offer online sessions for those further afield or where meeting face to face is not convenient.
Pricing
For information on pricing and session length, please visit my Fees, Terms & Conditions page. If you need support with a specific issue, feel stuck, lonely, depressed or you are finding life overwhelming and too demanding, I am here for you.
My practice gives you a safe, confidential, non-judgemental space to receive counselling and clinical psychotherapy and I am conveniently located in West Hampstead and Farringdon in Central London and online too.
Feel free to give me a call on 07768 759390 at any time or simply fill out the contact form and I’ll get back to you.