INDIVIDUAL PYSCHOTHERAPY
Tailored therapy and counselling
in Berkhamsted and London; relationship focussed therapy, working with depression and anxiety.
COUPLES COUNSELLING
Tailored one to one or group training sessions in Berkhamsted or London designed to enhance personal understanding and build new skills.
EMDR for Trauma
and ANXIETY
Offering a powerful and rapid therapy technique in Berkhamsted, Watford and London, NHS approved, to relieve distress from trauma, phobias and PTSD.
Robert James Consultancy
Building on leadership experience to support business owners through advisory and coaching
I am a skilled and compassionate therapist and group facilitator, offering innovative and impactful therapeutic solutions for individuals, couples, and groups. With over 15 years of both clinical expertise and leadership experience, I aim to support clients overcome trauma, build meaningful relationships, and unlock personal and professional growth through cutting-edge methods such as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) and Couples Therapy.
My aim is to enable transformative healing, to encourage greater clarity and insight. I am passionate for my clients to feel more connected in their relationships, live more empowered lives and navigate change with improved emotional resilience. My in person practice offers; individual therapy, couples therapy, and EMDR processing for both trauma and PTSD.
EMDR is a transformative approach that has the power to profoundly heal trauma by unlocking the brain’s ability to process and restore emotional balance to distressing memories and help let go of past trauma wounding. EMDR helps foster greater resilience and sense of personal confidence.
My work integrates my leadership, clinical and creative design experience over the past 20 years. As Clinical Lead at The School of Life, a global well-being organisation, I have overseen the roll out of their new therapy retreats programme, in the UK and Mallorca, delivering my 9th therapeutic retreat in January 2025.
My key services are:
My previous professional experiences include working as CEO of a leading UK therapy training organisation, The Counselling Foundation, for over 9 years and overseeing strategy and operations, as well as leadership roles at both The Princes Trust and The Samaritans. This experience, coupled with my clinical work, provides me with a unique expertise and insight to enable me to work effectively with professionals and connect to the issues they face day to day.
The therapy I provide is relationship focussed, the aim to enable you to better connect to yourself or others, as well as resolving conflicts and tensions that create distress. With an expertise in EMDR therapy which is grounded in neuroscience, blending creativity with compassion, I aim to achieve meaningful results for individuals and couples.
I am open to seeking collaboration opportunities to design transformative and thoughtfully designed therapeutic group experiences to inspire personal understanding, spark connection and self-discovery.
I am accredited and accept work with referrals from the following insurance companies; WPA, AXA PPP, Onebright and Aviva.
My practice locations:
In person therapy and EMDR appointments at the following locations below. I also work with clients via video (Zoom).
- Cavindish Square, Marylebone, London, W1G 0PH
- Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, HP4 1AA
- Online via zoom
Find out more about how I can support you
Contact me via the contact page, email contact@robertcuming.co.uk or call me on 07888 754819
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, HP4 1AA
Marylebone, London, W1G 0PH
Therapeutic group work in Somerset
How my services can make a difference to you
I am uniquely positioned as a psychotherapist, having successfully worked with over a hundred professionals providing psychotherapy, relationship and psychology informed leadership coaching. My work is focused on building resilience and emotional intelligence to enhance effectiveness for executives, and I have the credibility of holding leadership roles during my career including my current role at The School of Life. You can read some testimonials on this site. My goals in both therapy and coaching is to enhance your emotional resilience and feelings of empowerment, so that you can gain in confidence and experience greater wellbeing. You can email me at contact@robertcuming.co.uk in confidence. I will respond within 24 hours and offer you guidance on the matter. At the initial consultation, you can find out more and then decide whether my services are right for you.
My psychotherapy specialisms include Relationship Focussed Counselling for both individuals and couples. My relationship and couples work is informed from ongoing training and the models offered by both the Imago model and The Gottman Institute. The Gottman Institute has the strength of clincial research underpinning the training.
I have advanced training in Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) with ‘Richman EMDR training’, an internationally recognised and accredited training, and attachment focused EMDR with Mark Brayne based on the work of Laura Purnell. EMDR offers a cutting-edge technique which enables a timely reduction in the symptoms of anxiety and trauma. EMDR is both NHS and NICE approved. Read more about EMDR on this website and within services. My therapy and EMDR practice is based in Berkhamsted and Marylebone. To find out more call me on 07888 754819.
Personal inspiration in my work
In my couples work I draw from the work of Harville Hendricks and their IMAGO model, as well as the work from the Gottman Institute which has a formidable research base to their work. Clients often ask themselves ‘why’ they have arrived at this place in their lives. Feedback from psychotherapy clients demonstrates that during and after our work together, they have approached the choices they face in their life with a sense of courage and greater personal freedom, whether in their roles as a parent, a partner or a leader.
I offer services that can empower you with the necessary insight and courage in order to take the next steps on your journey. You can call me on 07888 754819 or email contact@robertcuming.co.uk to discuss how we might work together to help you positively move forward in your life.