Dr Michael Yates · DClinPsy, UCL · HCPC Registered
EFS-ESSM Certified Psychosexologist · Lead Clinician, 56 Dean Street
Confidential, evidence-based private consultation for men, partners, and couples whose relationship with sex or intimacy has become difficult.
Non-pathologising, evidence-based clinical psychology and psychosexual work. Drawing on compassion-focused therapy, mindfulness, ACT, and integrative psychosexual approaches.
Sex, pornography, drugs and sex including chemsex, or app use that feels out of step with how someone wants to live, including porn-induced erectile difficulties. Worked from the ICD-11 frame.
Learn moreDifficulties with desire, arousal, erection, orgasm and sexual confidence. Psychological assessment and integrative psychosexual work.
Learn morePersistent pelvic, genital and ejaculatory pain in men. Psychological work alongside urological and physiotherapy care.
Learn moreStructured work for partners and couples, including after disclosure. Individual partner work on its own terms.
Learn moreSexual identity at any life stage, the experience of coming out, internalised stigma, and the shame that often sits alongside.
Learn morePsychological work alongside or in place of harm reduction. For people whose use of drugs and sex including chemsex has stopped feeling like a choice.
Learn moreA practice grounded in clinical psychology and clinical sexology, and ten years of NHS leadership designing and delivering psychosexual services and evidence-based group programmes.
Doctoral training in clinical psychology at UCL. EFS-ESSM Certified Psychosexologist. COSRT registered. HCPC registered with no fitness-to-practise concerns.
Has set up and led NHS Psychosexual services in London since 2017. Lead Clinician and Psychology Lead at 56 Dean Street, Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust. Designed the first UK NHS structured group programme for men with compulsive sexual behaviour in a sexual health setting.
Two peer-reviewed papers in Sexual and Relationship Therapy. National Expert Reference Group at the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Member of the BASHH Sexual Function and Wellbeing SIG.
From a peer-reviewed evaluation of the structured group programme designed and led at 56 Dean Street, published in Sexual and Relationship Therapy.
View the researchShame thrives in secrecy. The clinical work is helping a person understand a pattern, change their relationship with it, and build a life consistent with who they actually want to be.
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