Welcome to The Blue Tree Clinic

Welcome to The Blue Tree Clinic

Our team have all had a huge amount of experience in addressing and relieving all sort of issues over many years. We pride ourselves at putting patients at ease and helping them understand not only what we aim to do, but how and and why.

From your first visit we’ll aim to put you at your ease and together make a plan to get you feeling great.

Meet the Team

Our team are the best in the business.

Psychiatry Team

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Dr Afrooz Kosari

Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Dr Afrooz Kosari - Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Dr Afrooz Kosari is an experienced Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist who completed her medical training at University College London and her higher specialist psychiatric training in London. She has worked...

Dr Ruchit Patel

Consultant Psychiatrist
Dr Ruchit Patel is an experienced Adult Psychiatrist having completed his psychiatric training in London after graduating from University of Wales, College of Medicine. He has held an NHS Consultant post since 2012 and since then he has held different...

Dr Elena Maritan

Consultant Adult Psychiatrist
Dr Elena Maritan trained in her MD in Medicine and Surgery at the prestigious University of Padua, in Italy. There, she also completed the specialty training in General Psychiatry, during which she specifically focused on depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, OCD,...

Dr Mellisha Padayatchi

Consultant Adult Psychiatrist
Dr Padayatchi is a dedicated, highly experienced GMC registered Consultant Psychiatrist who has worked in the NHS for most of her career. She qualified in South Africa at the University of Witwatersrand and completed her specialist training in psychiatry in...

Dr Anna Moore

Associate Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Anna Moore is an associate professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She practices as a Consultant in Paediatric Psychological Medicine, as well as in Medical Informatics at the University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry. Anna's clinical interests include ADHD, learning...
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Dr Ana-Maria Ilea

Consultant Psychiatrist
Dr Ana-Maria Ilea is an experienced General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist with a special interest in Eating Disorders, having spent more than 5 years working in highly specialist ED units in London. Dr Ilea has extensive experience working with a wide...
General Adult Psychiatrist

Dr Mark Silvert

Medical Director & Consultant Psychiatrist
Mark is a Registered General Adult Psychiatrist previously working both in the NHS and the Private Sector. Trained in the UK and the United States of America. He held a Consultant position in the NHS having worked at The Royal...
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Dr Daniel Kaitiff

Consultant Psychiatrist
Dr Daniel Kaitiff is an experienced Consultant Psychiatrist who works with his clients for better outcomes. He has worked in a number of areas within his specialty including General Adult, Older adult, liaison Psychiatry and forensics. He works in the...

Psychologists and Therapy Team

Dr Madalena Lykourgos

Clinical Psychologist
Dr Madalena Lykourgos has almost 10 years of experience working in a variety of mental health services for the NHS. Her background includes working with individuals of all ages, families and groups, across both inpatient and outpatient settings. She is...
Jessica Weinberg

Dr Jessica Frankl-Weinberger

Clinical Psychologist
Jessica is an experienced Clinical Psychologist and EMDR therapist (Eye-Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing), who specialises in treating a wide range of mental health issues with a special interest in working with people who have experienced trauma (including complex PTSD, attachment-, and...

Dr Chirag Gorasia

Clinical Psychologist
Chirag has over 15 years of clinical experience working with children and adolescents, families, adults, older adults and people with learning disabilities. He has worked at some of the world’s best hospitals, including Great Ormond Street, The Evelina, Chelsea Westminster...

Lucy Berglas

Practitioner Psychologist
Lucy is a Chartered and HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist. She has worked for a medico-legal firm and within the NHS for the last 6 years. She holds a doctoral level qualification as a Forensic Psychologist. She works with a variety...
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Yasmin Farah

Cognitive Behaviour Therapist
Yasmin is a Cognitive Behaviour Therapist working both in the NHS IAPT service and Privately. She holds both a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology. In addition to this she holds a MSc Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) with Goldsmiths, University of London...

Millie Baring

Psychotherapist
Millie is a qualified Psychotherapist and Counsellor with a Master’s degree in Humanistic Integrative Therapy. She provides professional online psychotherapy sessions for clients at The Blue Tree Clinic, supporting both adults and young people across the UK and is available...
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Natalie Edwards

Senior CBT Therapist
Natalie is a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist with extensive experience supporting adults and young people with a wide range of emotional and psychological difficulties. She holds both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Psychology, along with a Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive...

Kamran Dein

Clinic Director & Psychotherapist
Kamran is the Clinic Director of The Blue Tree Clinic, responsible for governance, patient care and queries. Kamran is one of the leading and award winning psychotherapists in the UK. Not only is he an award winning therapist he is...

Hadassah Lipszyc

CBT Therapist
Hadassah is our Cognitive Behaviour Therapist. She is also trained in psychodynamic and person centred counselling which enables her to work in an integrative way and to draw from all three therapeutic modalities when necessary, depending on one’s individual needs....

Marina Carbó-Mascarell

Therapist
Marina is a registered therapist with experience working within the NHS, charity sector and private services. She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Psychology and is soon to qualify as a Counselling Psychologist. Marina integrates theoretical knowledge in Psychodynamic...

Merve Ozdas

CBT Adult & Child Therapist
Merve Ozdas is a Highly Specialist Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with extensive experience in NHS CAMHS and private practice. She provides evidence based, formulation driven therapy for a wide range of emotional, behavioural and neurodevelopmental presentations. Merve integrates CBT, EMDR, ACT...

Abi Symons

Psychotherapist
Meet Abi – Your Integrative Psychotherapist at Bluetree Mental Health Clinic Abi is a psychotherapist and has worked in mental health and the charity sector since 2017. She has integrative training from the North West London Counselling Training Centre and...

Dietician

Aleeza Rosenberg

Highly Specialised Eating Disorders Dietitian
Aleeza is a highly specialised eating disorder dietitian. She graduated cum laude with an Honours degree in Dietetics and obtained a MSc in Eating Disorders with distinction from University College London (UCL). She has also done additional training in Cognitive...

Administrators and Management

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Ilana Yacobi

Medical Administrator
Ilana is our Medical Administrator, bringing over six years of experience in client-facing and operational roles across healthcare-adjacent, education, and service settings. She holds a BSc in Psychology from Kingston University London and has achieved the BPS Chartered Basis for...
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Nicky Runeckles

Business Lead
Nicky leads business development at The Blue Tree Clinic. With over 30 years’ experience spanning the pharmaceutical industry, independent mental healthcare, and digital mental health, she has held senior operational and commercial roles, including running a private psychiatric hospital and...

Ciara Cooper

Senior Administrator
Ciara is our Senior Administrator, bringing over six years of experience in healthcare administration across both NHS and private sectors. She holds a degree in American Studies from Canterbury Christ Church University and began her healthcare career shortly after graduating....

Therapy Dogs

Dr Charlie

Dr Charlie

The Therapy Dog
Charlie our therapy dog, has been in training for a few years now and gives the best cuddles!

Nurse Coco

Therapy Puppy in Training
Coco is a Cavapoo, who is our newest addition to the team. She likes running around the clinic, chewing toys and is eager to meet you just as soon as we are open for face to face consultations again!