Silva Neves Specialist Psychotherapy in Central London W1 & EC1

Welcome to my website. I hope that it is going to be informative and helpful enough for you, to enable you to make your next step into therapy.

Psychotherapy provides a confidential, caring and non-judgemental setting that could help you understand and change difficult areas of your life.

I am a specialist in:

Psychosexual and relationship therapy, also known as couples counselling or sex therapy.

Post-affair recovery. Helping couples heal and rebuild their relationship after the disclosure or discovery of an affair.

Treatment of compulsive sexual behaviours and problematic use of pornography, and therapy for partners.

Sexual trauma therapy and EMDR: therapy for survivors of childhood sexual abuse, rape, relational traumas, neglect in childhood and treatment for PTSD.

LGBTQ- specific issues including chemsex, acceptance of sexuality, coming out, body image issues, the trauma of homophobia.

Bereavement and Grief: losing a loved one.

Clinical supervision for psychotherapists, counsellors and other health professionals.

My model of psychotherapy is integrative and humanistic. It means that I will use different approaches from different therapeutic models to suit your needs best. I integrate psychotherapeutic modalities such as: Gestalt, Psychodynamic, CBT, ACT, Transactional Analysis combined with specific psycho-sexological knowledge and diverse relationships.

I am based in two Central London locations:

The City (EC1)

Wimpole Street (W1)

Compulsive Sexual Behaviours, most commonly known as 'sex addiction'

Frequent preoccupation by sexual thoughts.

Sexual behaviours having a negative impact on life.

Difficulties stopping the sexual behaviours despite negative consequences to life and relationship.

Feeling bad about the sexual behaviours.

Problematic use of pornography

Frequent preoccupation with sexual thoughts and pornography.

Using pornography to the extent of having negative impact on life.

Difficulties stopping the use of porn despite negative consequences to life and relationship.

Feeling bad about the use of porn.

Relationship problems as a result of problematic use of porn.

My treatment for compulsive sexual behaviours and problematic use of porn is holistic, non-shaming with an integrative approach of classic psychotherapeutic methods and modern psycho-sexological interventions.
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A Space For Men is a unique 12-week programme to help men explore their masculinity in private and confidential one-to-one sessions.
The programme is not therapy. It is a masculinity coaching programme, although there are many therapeutic elements to it. The programme incorporates psycho-education, behavioural interventions and therapeutic interventions.
A Space for Men is a confidential, non-shaming, non-judgmental space where there is no risk of being criticised for exploring all aspects of masculinity. For more information Click Here

Many people call a couples therapist or a sex therapist when things are not going well. But what if you could avoid your relationship or your sex life becoming difficult? By keeping in touch with your sex and relationship MOT, you can avoid the crisis point and you may not need to see a therapist to repair things.
Don’t delay, book your Relationship and Sex MOT today for a thorough check-in.

In the busy lives that we lead and with childcare issues, it is sometimes a struggle for couples to find the time to commit to weekly or fortnightly sessions.
This is with this in mind that I offer intensive workshops for couples. Positive change can occur with intensive workshops and it requires less commitment than attending weekly couples therapy.
The Intensive Coaching sessions are suitable for couples of all sexual orientations. For more information Click Here

I offer therapeutic support for:

Making sense of the feelings of grief.

Processing Complex Grief.

Process the loss of someone whom you had an ambivalent relationship with.

Process the grief when your loved one died by suicide.

Process the grief of losing a child.

Process the grief of sudden death and traumatic death.

Help with the loss that nobody talks about when your intimate partner dies: the loss of your sexual self.

Help for the dying, from terminal diagnosis, decline and death.
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I provide ongoing clinical supervision for psychotherapists and counsellors working in the psychosexual and relationship therapy area and trauma therapy area.
I also offer one-off consultations to psychotherapists, counsellors and other health professionals who do not work in those specialist areas and who need a consultation to work with a particular client/ patient. For more information, Click Here