THE LIVING CONNECTION
Ecotherapy and other services
Welcome
To live well, we need connection. We need to be connected to ourselves, to people that matter to us, and to the world that we live in. Without these connections we can easily slip into feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, and deep loneliness.
The therapy that I provide is focused on building and deepening connection. We will work together to help you identify what matters to you and how the disconnects between your thoughts, feelings, and environment are holding you back. After that we work actively to rebuild and move forward again.
About me
My name is Will Tadros. I am a clinical psychologist. I grew up in the UK and completed an Honours Degree in Neuroscience at The University of Edinburgh. Later I moved to the USA and did my clinical psychology training at The Wright Institute in Berkeley, California. There I largely worked with people experiencing significant mental health issues alongside homelessness.
It quicly became apparent to me that the standard approach to therapy - two people sitting in a room - does not work well for everyone. I realised the importance of connection and how standard approaches to treatment can unintentionally get in the way of this. I began to specialise in approaches that prioritise building connection and started taking my work out of the office and into nature.
In my final year of training I had the opportunity to develop a new program of services for a shelter for female survivors of domestic violence. This program was built around time spent together in the shelter's garden and in their communal spaces - talking, doing art together, and building community.
Later, during a postdoctoral fellowship working with military veterans, I further developed my approach to include practicing mindfulness in nature and supporting the veterans to design and implement their own treatment programs.
Since then I have moved back to the UK and worked for five years in a highly specialist NHS service, spending two of those years as borough lead. While there I worked on building ACT, Ecotherapy, and community-based practices into my team.
I now bring all my expertise from years of working with people who are wrestling with severe and enduring mental health issues to the general public though my private practice.