Dr Chloe Paidoussis-Mitchell 

​Chartered Psychologist · Author · Keynote Speaker 

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I am Dr Chloe, a Chartered Counselling Psychologist, author, and keynote speaker with over 25 years of experience working with people through some of the most profound and painful experiences of their lives.

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My work spans two worlds that are more connected than they might first appear.

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In one, I sit with individuals - privately, one to one - who are navigating grief, trauma, loss, and the kind of emotional pain that resists easy answers. People who have lost someone they love. People rebuilding their lives after relationship breakdown, serious illness, or a loss of identity they struggle to name. People who have held it together for so long that they have forgotten who they are beneath the effort.

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In the other, I work with organisations - leadership teams, HR directors, partners, and executives - helping them understand what invisible loss is doing to their people, their culture, and their performance, and building the psychological safety and human intelligence to respond to it well.

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What unites both worlds is a single conviction: that lasting psychological change does not come from fixing ourselves. It comes from learning to be present with what is already here.

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One to one therapy and coaching

At the heart of my work is the individual therapeutic relationship - the private, confidential space where real change becomes possible.

I work with adults from all walks of life who are navigating:

Grief and bereavement - the loss of a person, a relationship, a life that was planned and never came to be. Trauma and its aftermath - the experiences that leave a mark long after the event has passed. Identity loss and life transitions - redundancy, divorce, serious illness, retirement, becoming a parent, losing a sense of purpose or direction. Invisible losses - the endings that never get acknowledged, the grief that has no name, the pain that others cannot see. Emotional exhaustion and burnout - the depletion that comes from giving too much for too long without being genuinely supported. The search for meaning - the quiet but urgent question of what this life is for, and how to live it with greater authenticity, connection, and vitality.

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My therapeutic approach is depth-based, trauma-informed, and existentially grounded. I do not offer quick fixes or manualized programmes. I offer presence, clinical rigour, and the kind of honest, compassionate understanding that allows people to meet their own experience without fear.

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Sessions are available online, allowing me to work with clients across the UK and internationally.

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For organisations

Alongside my clinical practice I work with organisations to address what I call invisible loss - the grief that accumulates inside teams and cultures through restructuring, redundancy, departure, burnout, and the relentless pressure of professional life that never gets named or acknowledged.

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One in four employees is grieving at any given moment. 91% report a significant drop in productivity. UK businesses lose over £20 billion a year to grief-related presenteeism and absenteeism. And only 11% of managers can correctly identify grief as the source of the performance issues they are seeing.

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My organisational work includes keynote speaking, leadership workshops, executive coaching, employee webinars, and strategic psychological consulting. I have worked with some of the UK's most demanding organisations and have seen what becomes possible when leaders develop a genuine fluency in what their people are actually carrying.

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Trusted by: Goldman Sachs · Allen & Overy · Freshfields · Cleary Gotlieb · Weil Gotshal · Sidley Austin · BNP Paribas · Accenture · Aviva Allianz · Ogilvy · Tesco · EBRD · Clyde & Co · Department of Transport · This Can Happen

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What people say

"Dr Chloe held my grief with such steadiness and care. For the first time in years I felt truly understood. The work we did together changed my life."  Individual therapy client

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"In the aftermath of team trauma, Dr Chloe offered insight and steadiness when we needed it most. Our team is better for it."

Partner, City Law Firm

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"Her webinar gave language to what so many of us had silently carried. It opened the door to a new way of caring for each other at work."  Wellbeing Lead, Financial Services

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"Dr Chloe's approach to grief at work is human, trauma-informed, and refreshingly honest. She doesn't just talk about support; she models it. I wish every leadership team could hear what we heard."  

HR Director, Tech

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My books and writing

I am the author of The Loss Prescription (HarperCollins, 2024)  a clinically grounded, compassionate guide to navigating grief and the pain of all loss, widely read by individuals navigating personal loss as well as professionals working in health, mental health, and caring roles.

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My forthcoming book The Stranger Within explores what becomes possible when we stop running from loss and begin to meet the person it has been quietly making us - a book about freedom, identity, and the deeper self that grief reveals.

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I have also published academic work on Existential Trauma Therapy with Routledge and PCCS.

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My background and credentials

I hold a Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and have practised for over 25 years across clinical, organisational, and academic settings. I lecture at the Existential Academy and the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling in London, and have been a visiting lecturer on the Cambridge University Executive MBA programme in Mental Fitness and Resilience.

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My work has been featured on BBC Radio 2, CNN, and in The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, and The Huffington Post.

Chartered Counselling Psychologist (CPsychol) · Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS) · Doctorate in Counselling Psychology (DCPsych) · Author · Keynote Speaker · Executive Coach

 

Let's talk

Whether you are an individual looking for one to one support, or an organisation seeking to understand the hidden cost of invisible loss, I would welcome a conversation.

Email:  cpaidoussis@me.com