About Calum Roche

Psychotherapist in Central London , Psychoanalytic and existential psychotherapy

I offer the full measure of my clinical training, presence, and personal authenticity to patients seeking serious, thoughtful psychological work in Bloomsbury, Covent Garden, and Soho. By integrating psychoanalytic depth, existential inquiry, and phenomenological openness, I provide an in-person framework where we can look gently but rigorously beyond immediate symptoms to understand the fundamental architecture of your lived experience.

Most people arrive with something specific — a relationship that has broken down, a grief that hasn't moved, a period of anxiety or depression, a sense that life has become smaller than it should be. We begin there. But we don't stay there. The work is to understand what sits beneath the presenting difficulty, and why it has taken the particular shape it has in your life.

Ariadne Practice

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  • In person. Consultations work face to face or via video meeting.

    We begin with an initial consultation — which is free of charge, a chance to describe what has brought you, and for both of us to consider whether this way of working is right for you. There is no obligation to continue.

    Sustained. Sessions are 50 minutes, [once or more times weekly], and open-ended. This is not short-term or solution-focused work. Meaningful change of this kind takes time, and I would rather be honest about that at the outset.

    Contained. Consistency of time, place, and attention is what makes it possible to bring difficult material into the room. The frame is reliable so that the content doesn't have to be.

    Consulting room: 8 Hop Gardens, London WC2N 4EH

    Nearest tube: Leicester Square

    Fees: £50 per session

  • Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training
    The Philadelphia Association, 2023–present

    Introductory Course in Philosophy and Psychotherapy
    The Philadelphia Association, 2021–2022

    Foundation Certificate in Psychotherapy and Counselling
    Regent's University London, 2020–2021

    Clinical experience

    Three years in private practice.

    Ten years in the NHS, including community and in-patient services.

    I am in personal analysis and ongoing clinical supervision.

  • Fees £50 per session