Dr Rachel Abedi – Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist – London

Dr Rachel Abedi – Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist – London

Dr Rachel Abedi – Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist – London leads Harwood Child Psychology’s specialist psychoanalytic services for children and adolescents. She earned her professional training at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, where she now lectures and supervises postgraduate child psychotherapy students. Moreover, she has over a decade of experience working in CAMHS, the Brent Centre for Young People, and Tavistock Outreach in primary schools. As a result, she combines deep psychoanalytic insight with practical, child‑centred interventions.

Her child‑led approach places each young person’s emotional reality at the centre of therapy. Consequently, she builds trust gradually, which helps children explore difficult feelings and experiences. Furthermore, she runs a charity that improves mental health support for children from marginalised communities, demonstrating her commitment to accessible care.

Services

• Brief and Long‑term Weekly Treatment
  Delivers flexible psychoanalytic sessions that adapt to each child’s pace and needs.

• Intensive Psychotherapy
  Provides deeper, twice‑weekly or daily sessions to address complex trauma and entrenched emotional difficulties.

• Parent‑Child Sessions
  Facilitates joint work that strengthens attachment, improves communication, and supports parent support strategies.

• Parent Support and Consultation
  Coaches caregivers in understanding psychoanalytic concepts, so they can reinforce therapeutic gains at home.

• Trauma‑focused Work
  Helps children process experiences of emotional or sexual abuse, family breakdown, bereavement, and other adversities.

• Neurodiverse Presentations
  Offers tailored support for children with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) and ADHD, integrating psychoanalytic formulation with developmental understanding.

• Eating and Sleeping Difficulties
  Applies psychoanalytic techniques to address behaviours and anxieties around food, body image, and bedtime routines.

• Obsessive‑Compulsive Behaviours
  Explores underlying emotional conflicts that manifest as compulsions and rituals, then works through them collaboratively.

• Selective Mutism and School Refusal
  Provides psychodynamic formulations and graded intervention plans to help children overcome anxiety in social and school settings.

• Adoption and Foster Care Support
  Addresses identity, attachment, and relational challenges specific to adopted children and those in foster care.

Additional Information

Harwood Child Psychology offers both in‑person sessions at its London clinics and secure remote consultations, which accommodate school schedules and family commitments. In addition, the practice uses a protected online portal for pre‑session questionnaires and outcome‑tracking tools; therefore, Dr Abedi spends every session focused on core emotional work.

Weekly multidisciplinary case‑review meetings bring together psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and allied professionals to refine formulations and care pathways. Consequently, each child’s plan benefits from collective expertise and the latest psychoanalytic thinking.

Moreover, Harwood hosts regular community workshops on topics such as emotion regulation, therapeutic play, and family dynamics, which empower caregivers with practical strategies and build peer support networks. Ultimately, we invite you to book an initial consultation with Dr Rachel Abedi – Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist – London at Harwood Child Psychology. Let her specialist psychoanalytic expertise guide your child toward emotional understanding, resilience, and lasting well‑being. Take the first step today by arranging your personalised therapy pathway.