Shem Lopez, NCPS

Shem Lopez is an integrative psychotherapist with a background in private practice since 2012 and 12 years of professional experience. He combines a range of therapeutic methods to help people live according to their own values and to move toward goals that reflect what matters most to them. Shem approaches each person as an individual, offering a supportive, non-judgemental space where struggles and concerns can be explored openly and honestly.

Therapy with Shem focuses on increasing self-awareness and making sense of the internal world so that clients can form deeper connections with themselves and with others. By bringing implicit patterns into awareness, clients gain greater choice in how they relate to their feelings, thoughts, relationships, and life situations. He has particular experience supporting people with anxiety, trauma, panic attacks, depression, anger, psychosexual difficulties, and couples or relationship issues.

Shem holds the NCPS credential and is registered with the UKCP, both reflecting his professional standing in the field. He works both in person and online and tailors his use of clinical approaches to each person - drawing on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), the Gottman Method, Hypnotherapy, Imago Relationship Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy, and Internal Family Systems. His practice includes work with a wide range of concerns such as stress, LGBT matters, eating and parenting issues, self-esteem, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, attachment and abandonment issues, guilt and shame, impulsivity, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, men's issues, midlife transition, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress, self-love, sexuality, social anxiety, and workplace difficulties.