A space for reflection, healing, and growth

Whether you're looking for short-term support or longer-term therapy, we'll work together on what feels important to you — addressing the patterns affecting you, your life, and your relationships.

Therapy for people who want to understand themselves more deeply and move through life with clarity.

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Is this for you?

Therapy is a space to slow down, reflect, and make sense of what is happening in your life. Together we explore your experiences with care, curiosity, and respect for your unique process.

What you may want to process with me:

I work with a wide range of issues, including:

  • Identity and self-exploration

  • Life transitions and change

  • Anxiety and depression

  • Bereavement and loss

  • Relationships

  • Stress and overwhelm

  • Cultural and existential concerns

I work with adults aged 18+ and welcome clients from all backgrounds. I offer both short-term and long-term therapy, depending on your needs and preferences. Sessions are currently offered online.

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About

Portrait photograph of Ciara Hablutzel Oppenheimer

Hi, I’m Ciara Hablutzel Oppenheimer,

I am MBACP registered as a psychotherapist and counsellor. Currently, I am training to be a Counselling Psychologist at the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling (NSPC).

My qualifications are:

  • PGDip in Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy, NSPC

  • Foundation Certificate in Counselling and Psychotherapy, Regent’s University

  • MSc in Psychology, Birkbeck University

  • BA in History, University College London

My professional experience includes suicide prevention work at Rethink Mental Illness, winning the HSJ Award 2024 for Best Mental Health Programme in Partnership with the NHS. I also completed ASIST training in Suicide Prevention, and worked as a bereavement support volunteer at Cruse Bereavement Care, where I worked in a trauma-informed way. These experiences have shaped how I think about the contextual, cultural, and societal impact on a person's life.

I have lived in Hong Kong, New York, South Africa and London, which has given me insight into the challenges people face across different cultural contexts — and I remain curious about the role culture plays in who we are. I have worked with clients from a wide range of backgrounds and life experiences, and I look forward to learning about what has shaped you.

Approach – How I Work

We discuss your thoughts, feelings, relationships and behaviours, which can help to manage mental health, improve coping skills, and understand emotional issues.

Therapy with me is a caring, reflective, and open process. I aim to create a space that feels safe, confidential, and secure. I am present with you through empathic listening, while also incorporating somatic, creative, mindfulness and experiential exercises, and psychodynamic and person-centred perspectives when helpful.

Together, we will engage in a reflective and transformative process, seeking meaning amid life’s challenges. Wherever you are in your journey, therapy with me is a collaborative, empathic, encouraging, and exploratory.

My work is grounded in an existential and phenomenological framework. This means that together we explore your subjective experiences, emotions, and meanings — rather than focusing only on symptoms or diagnoses. Existential psychotherapy offers a way to explore the fundamental questions of human life – identity, freedom, responsibility, connection, loss, and purpose — in a non-judgemental and supportive space.

Depending on what you are coming to therapy for, I will draw on approaches that best fits you as an individual. I am interested in learning about you — your past, your present, what you hope for from therapy, and how you would like to move forward.

What therapy with me feels like

  • Exploratory, not rushed

  • Focused on understanding, not fixing

  • Calm, grounded and non-judgemental

  • Holistic

Services

I offer weekly one-to-one therapy sessions lasting 50 minutes, creating a reflective, supportive space to explore what is happening in your inner and outer world.

Sessions can support you with emotional difficulties, transitions, relationships, and deeper questions of meaning and identity. You may experience greater emotional clarity, a more grounded sense of self, and insight into your processes and patterns.

Online counselling, based in the UK

Short-term and long-term work available

Individual therapy

Fees discussed during the initial assessment

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Please email ciara@theprocesspractice.com if you are interested in starting therapy.

Contact

Get in touch

To book your session or find out more please fill in the form or email me at: ciara@theprocesspractice.com

It’s completely okay if you’re unsure — this first conversation is just a chance to see if this feels right for you

Steps:

  1. You book a session

  2. We talk about what’s going on

  3. You decide if you want to continue

I look forward to hearing from you!