Dr. Amita Sehgal, MA, PhD, is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with almost 30 years of experience working in the field of adult mental health. In her centrally-located London practice she sees couples, parents and individuals in-person or online via Zoom.
Her commitment to good mental health and emotional wellbeing underpins her work in her client-centred practice. She offers a safe and confidential service, helping clients develop emotional resilience, reduce anxiety-related symptoms, and strengthen their key relationships in creative and constructive ways.
Amita has particular expertise and extensive experience of working with couples experiencing relationship difficulties arising from all sorts of reasons including planned or unplanned life events. She works with sensitivity, helping couples emerge through troubling times feeling strengthened, closer and happier. She is also sympathetic to the unique challenges that family and cultural expectations, or having significant wealth, can place on couples. She helps couples and individual family members manage these tensions with resilience, confidence and clarity, promoting harmony in their relationships with people important to them, and where relevant, how they might use their wealth in emotionally-intelligent ways.
Amita has published widely in the field of couple psychotherapy including New Associations, Journal of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, and British Journal of Psychotherapy. Her edited book Sadism: Developmental Psychoanalytic Perspectives published by Routledge is now available in paperback. She regularly delivers lectures and training workshops both nationally and internationally.
Prior to embarking upon a career in adult mental health, Amita graduated with a PhD in Genetics from the University of Leeds. She subsequently held postdoctoral fellowships in immunological research at the Institute of Child Health, and also at St Mary’s Hospital, both in London.
Amita Sehgal is accredited by the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC 20392). She is Adjunct Faculty at the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI), Washington, D.C.; Family Consultant (Resolution); and, a full member of Tavistock Relationships Association of Psychotherapists and Counsellors (TRAPC).
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M.A. in Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Tavistock Relationships (formerly Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships)/ University of East London (September 2006 - March 2011).
Graduate Certificate: Foundation in Couples Counselling. Relate/University of East London (January 2005 - March 2006).
Ph.D. in Genetics. University of Leeds, England (October 1987 - June 1994).
B.Sc. (Hons) in Zoology. University of Delhi ( Miranda College), India (October 1984 - May 1987).
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British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) Full Member (reg. no. 20392)
Resolution registered Family Consultant
Tavistock Relationships Association of Psychotherapists and Counsellors (Full Member)
International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI) Washington, D.C., Adjunct Faculty
The quality of our personal relationships has a significant impact upon our physical health and emotional wellbeing. In order to reduce anxiety-related symptoms like disturbed sleep, and think clearly, it is vital to have engaged and meaningful relationships with the world we live in, and the people we interact with. I work with diverse individuals to focus on healing their relationship with themselves alongside enhancing the quality of their meaningful relationships.
I am also committed to helping clients gain valuable insights into how they think about and use money, and how it mirrors their internal world. For example, it can reflect their identity, and become charged with hopes and desires. It may also become equated with survival in the external world. In intimate partnerships money can be used as emotional currency to express love, or as an agent of control, to assert dominance or to diminish, demean and devalue the other.