Ben du Preez

Therapist Directory Listing Category: Psychotherapists and Counsellors

About the Therapist

About the therapist:

Throughout my career, I’ve had the privilege of working with people navigating a wide range of different challenges, including anxiety, loss, depression, heartache, feeling stuck, addiction and abuse.

My passion lies in supporting those who’ve felt the need to shrink, edit, or protect parts of themselves in order to survive or belong. This might be rooted in your experience of childhood dynamics, questions around gender and sexuality, neurodivergence, chronic illness, migration and cultural otherness, or the slow erosion of self that can come with existing in a world which often struggles to see us fully.

In addition to my practice as a therapist, I’ve spent many years working in social justice – supporting survivors of displacement, persecution and trauma as they try to reclaim agency within systems often designed to silence them. These experiences also shape how I sit in the therapist’s chair: with a deep appreciation for human resilience, the intersection between the personal and political, and the many ways trauma continues to live on in our bodies, often across generations.

Whoever you are and however you identify, I offer a space that is warm, non-judgmental, and queer-affirming — a space where all parts of you are welcome, including the messy, playful, tender and painful ones.

If you are unsure whether I can work with you, please ask and we can talk it through together.

I am available on Thursdays for in-person sessions in Hackney and Tottenham, and online sessions wherever you are based.

I see clients on a long-term, short-term and medium term basis.

Sexual identity:

Bi- | Pansexual
Queer

Gender identity: Male

Gender history: As assigned at birth

Non-monogamy: Yes

Intersex: No

Neurodivergent: No

Personal pronouns: he/him

Qualifications - Links to websites:

I am a BACP-registered therapist, who trained in integrative counselling and psychotherapy at the Minster Centre in London, after 15 years working in a range of mental health settings for different social justice and migrant rights organisations, in the UK and abroad.

Alongside my practice as a therapist, I work as a trainer in trauma and identity-informed approaches to collective healing, survivor activism and co-production.

Qualifications - Additional:

Award	Awarding body	Year of award
Diploma in Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy from the Minster Centre	BACP	2024

Experience and approach:

My approach is integrative and relational, which is another way of saying that I’m less interested in rigid theories than in the unique complexity of your individual experience and what actually happens in the room between us.

As an integrative therapist, I draw on different therapeutic traditions to meet you where you are in the full complexity of your experience. At times, that might involve working through deep patterns of thought or behaviour that no longer serve you. In other moments, we might pay attention to the body, to silences, to things we only half-say but feel fully.

As a relational therapist, we’ll focus not just on your individual experiences but also on how your relationships – past and present – shape your emotions, ways-of-being, and sense of self. This also includes our relationship and what’s live between us in the therapy room.

Approaches:

Attachment theory (Psychodynamic)
Body psychotherapy
Existential
Gestalt
Group therapy
Humanistic
Integrative
Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS)
Interpersonal
Relational
Walk and talk therapy

Marginalised groups:

BDSM | Kink
Bi- | Pansexual
Consensual non-monogamy
Non-binary | Genderqueer
Queer
Questioning

Relationship styles:

One to one

Access:

Partially wheelchair-adapted
Fully wheelchair-adapted

Age ranges:

Adults
Seniors (60+)
Young adults (16-24)

Online status:

Online
In Person

I recognise finding the right therapist can feel daunting so offer a free 15-minute phone/online consultation first, just so you can get a sense of how we might work together and ask any questions about the therapy process before committing to regular sessions.

Thereafter, I offer therapy with a sliding scale - from £60 to £90, according to your financial circumstances - and I am always open to a conversation if my pricing tiers don’t reflect your circumstances. I also reserve some session slots for low income clients and those with experience of the UK's asylum system.

Mare Street, LONDON, Hackney N17 6RX, United Kingdom

Email: bendupreeztherapy@gmail.com

Phone: 07410048686

Website: