About me

Nassos Theodor (he/they), MBACP

LGBTQ+ Integrative Counsellor and Psychotherapist

Before training as a therapist, I spent over a decade in Academia, studying and teaching in the humanities, and another decade working as a creative. I am intimately familiar with both the pressures and joys of intellectual and creative pursuits.

Now in my 40s, I bring to the work a wealth of lived experience as an immigrant, a transmasculine person, and a passionate advocate for the LGBTQ+ community. I have been on my own journey of recovery from different forms of trauma and have worked extensively with people facing similar challenges. I am acutely aware of the fact that people can sit at the intersections of multiple forms of oppression and marginalisation at once. We are social beings inhabiting a world facing climate collapse and increasing threats to freedom. In my experience, issues of power and cultural complexity will always, in some form, find their way into the counselling room. I do not shy away from how our social and political worlds affect mental health, while I also hold firmly onto our personal responsibility and power to heal.

Nassos Theodor profile picture showing a trans therapist against a pink tile background.

Counselling Qualifications & Membership

  • Advanced Diploma in Integrative Counselling (Level 5, Iron Mill College & Connexus Institute)
  • Certificate in Counselling (Iron Mill College)
  • British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy Registered Member (421963)
  • NCPS Student Member
  • I am fully insured, DBS-checked, GDPR-compliant, ICO-registered, and I receive regular clinical supervision.
  • Further training & CPD includes:
    • LGBTQ+ affirming therapy
    • Parts work / Internal Family Systems
    • Working with survivors of childhood sexual abuse
    • Working with survivors of spiritual abuse
    • Sand tray therapy and other creative interventions
    • Working with dreams
    • Domestic Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence
    • Working with neurodivergence
    • Kink & BDSM awareness
    • Gender, Sexuality, and Relationship Diversity (polyamory, relationship anarchism, ethical non-monogamy etc.)