I'm Kirstan Lloyd, a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist offering depth-oriented psychotherapy for late teens, young adults, and adults. I work fully online, across the UK and internationally, with particular experience working with clients in South Africa, Dubai, and the UK.
My work centres on identity, relationship, and psychological development. The deeper structures that shape how a person experiences themselves and others. The people I work with are often emotionally intense, relationally driven, and carrying questions about who they are that ordinary life hasn't answered.
Many are living between cultures. Expats, third culture adults, and internationally mobile people for whom dislocation is not only geographical but psychological. I have lived and worked across South Africa, Dubai, and the UK, and I understand from the inside what it means to carry more than one cultural self.
Whether you are a young person forming a sense of self for the first time, or an adult who finds that self has become uncertain, the work is substantive, personalised, and clinically rigorous.
I welcome self-referrals and referrals from GPs, psychiatrists, and allied professionals worldwide.
Helix Centre is a boutique psychology practice offering psychodynamic psychotherapy for late teens, young adults, and adults. The work is personalised, clinically rigorous, and grounded in a genuine understanding of how identity and relationship shape psychological life.
The practice has particular experience working with expats, third culture adults, and internationally mobile clients across South Africa, Dubai, and the UK, as well as with young people navigating the transition into adulthood.
Sessions are conducted fully online.
Clinical Psychologist & Psychotherapist
I am a UK and internationally registered clinical psychologist and psychotherapist with over a decade of experience. My work is psychodynamic in orientation, shaped by specialist training in personality development, complex trauma, and the psychology of identity and self.
I have particular experience working with late teens and young adults navigating the transition into adulthood, and with adults at significant turning points in their psychological lives. Many of my clients are expats, third culture adults, or internationally mobile people living between cultures and identities.
I have lived and worked across South Africa, Dubai, and the UK. That experience is not incidental to my clinical work. It informs how I understand dislocation, belonging, and the particular psychological weight of building a life far from where you began.
My approach is relational and depth-oriented. I am interested in what is unconscious, developmental, and formative, and in helping people develop a more coherent, grounded, and genuinely their own sense of self.
B.A. Vega, B.A. Wits, B.A. Hons (Psych) Wits, M.Ed (Psych) Wits
HPCSA No: Ps 0116734 · DHA-P-03534719 · BPS CPsychol No.: 746868 · HCPC: PYL045887
My approach is psychodynamic in orientation, relational in practice, and built around the particular person in the room. I draw on depth psychology, intersubjective and self psychological frameworks, and where relevant, structured evidence-based approaches. The balance between exploration and structure is determined by what the work requires.
Sessions are collaborative and unhurried. The aim is not to manage symptoms but to understand what underlies them. Patterns of self and other, the residue of early experience, the ways a person has learned to protect themselves that no longer serve them. That understanding, developed carefully over time, is what makes lasting change possible.
You feel things intensely. Your relationships matter enormously to you, and are also where you hurt most. You are still finding out who you are, and you want to do that with someone who can hold the complexity of that process without simplifying it.
Something has shifted. A relationship, a move, a career, or something quieter and harder to name. The self you knew feels uncertain. You are not looking for coping strategies. You want to actually understand what is happening.
You are living at a distance from where you began. The practical life may be working. The internal one is more complicated. Questions of identity, belonging, and who you are outside of your original context have a particular texture here that not every therapist understands.
In addition to psychotherapy, I offer psychological assessment for adults and young people where this is clinically indicated. This includes personality assessment, psychoeducational evaluation, and broader psychological assessment to support diagnostic clarity, treatment planning, or personal understanding.
Assessments are not treated as a standalone diagnostic service. They are situated within a relational and psychodynamic frame, and are most useful where there is a genuine clinical question that structured assessment can help answer.
Short reflections on identity, relationships and depth psychology.
@helixcentreuk