Simran Sutaria

Simran, known to her clients as Simi, is a High Intensity CBT Therapist working with adults, adolescents and young people. Her practice centres on anxiety and depression, delivered through Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in the form the evidence supports.

Much of Simi's career has been spent in secondary care, supporting people at the most acute and complex points of their mental health. Difficult presentations do not unsettle her, which means clients can bring the whole of what they are dealing with into the room rather than a tidied version of it.

Simi spent two years working as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP), delivering evidence-based psychological interventions for common mental health difficulties.

For the past six years she has worked within the Harrow Home Treatment Team, a secondary care mental health service. She joined as a Home Treatment Team Practitioner and continues with the service today as permanent bank staff. During that time, the team created a specialist role around her strengths in risk and service safety. As Risk Management Practitioner, Simi reviewed and updated the service's risk management policies, delivered risk training to staff, developed and maintained its safety plans, and provided daily on-duty support to colleagues managing risk-related concerns. It is work that deepened an already considerable experience of holding people steadily through the most acute periods of their mental health.

Her clinical training covers Low and High Intensity CBT interventions, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Personality Disorders, alongside training in medication supervision and administration, self-harm, suicide prevention, emergency life support, Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression (PMVA) and trauma-informed care.