Neil Young (UKCP)

I have experience of working with a diverse range of LGBTQ+ clients, offering short- and long-term therapy face-to-face and online in a range of settings including the NHS, LGBT charities and since 2018 now in private practice. I offer therapy to young people and adults (18+) who identify as trans, non-binary and/or gender diverse – as well as their family members, partners and friends – in my north London practice. I am passionate about providing a culturally sensitive therapy space for diverse folk who fall outside of normative cisgender, heterosexual norms, as I do. I want therapy to be a space where you can explore your gender and sexual identities as much or as little as you need to, alongside any other issues and feelings that are drawing you to seek support.

In addition to my private practice, I am a faculty member at the Institute for Arts and Therapy in Education (IATE), working as an examiner, tutor and reflective group practice facilitator as well as teaching sessions on power, intersectionality, dance/movement and the transition from student to becoming a therapist. I also teach a 12-week gender, sex and sexuality module at HOMA Therapy Centre. 

I have a long history of supporting LGBTQ+ people, as a queer youth project manager and LGBT advisor to the Mayor of London. I am also an experienced gender and sexual identity consultant, author and presenter designing and delivering conferences, training, presentations, workshops and events for therapists and other professionals. In 2022 I co-authored a chapter on queer children as part of the Queering Psychotherapy book and I wrote about re-emergent gender and sexual identities amongst young people in a 2017 article for the BACP University and College Counselling journal. Prior to becoming a therapist, I also worked as a research, event and project manager, freelance photographer, stand-up comedian and social media campaigner/fundraiser.