Something brought you here. Let’s start there.

Something has brought you here. Perhaps life feels stuck, or a quiet restlessness has grown louder. Maybe success has arrived on the outside while something feels unresolved within. Or you’re carrying pressure that never fully lifts — professional, relational, or simply the weight of being human. 

Therapy offers something simple but rare: a space where you can speak honestly, slow down, and begin to understand what’s actually going on beneath the surface. 

I’m Roderick Brenninkmeijer, a BACP registered psychotherapist and counsellor working with adults in West London and online. My approach is integrative — drawing on psychodynamic, humanistic, and existential thinking — and my work is shaped by an unusual background. Before training as a therapist, I spent twenty years in international business and leadership. I know what it means to perform under pressure, to question purpose from inside a successful career, and to sit with the gap between how life looks and how it feels. 

I work at the Royal Academy of Music, where I see musicians and performers facing the particular challenges that come with a life in the arts. 

I work in English and Dutch, and bring a genuine cultural sensitivity to the therapy room — shaped by my own experience of living and working across different countries and contexts.