About The Recover Clinic
Meet the team:
Emmy Gilbert MA PgDip BA Hons - Clinical Director
Emmy is our clinical director and manages The Recover Clinic. Emmy offers advice to hundreds of people looking for support and helps to find suitable treatment options for people in crisis. Emmy conducts clinical assessments around the UK, runs parents and partner’s workshops and works with patients on a one to one basis in our central London clinic.
Emmy has received extensive training on working with adolescents and has a Masters in Psychotherapy. She is currently working towards her PhD in Psychodynamic Counselling.
Vickie Hugh-Jones MBACP - Senior Eating Disorders Therapist
Vickie is a qualified integrative counsellor. Vickie runs specialist workshops for people struggling with eating disorders and for family members and friends of those suffering with eating disorders.
Vickie specialises in working with those who want to both explore and change their relationship with food. Vickie feels that although food is often the presenting issue, the work is always more vibrant – addressing areas such as relationships, bereavements, self-esteem and communication
Gill Sanders BASRT UKCP BACP - Psychosexual and Relationship Therapist
Gill is The Recover Clinic's psychosexual and relationship specialist. She has been working in this role for nineteen years. Her professional passions are communication, relationships and sex and her belief is that honest and open communication provides the foundation for loving relationships with family, friends, lovers and ourselves.One of Gill's key strengths is working with people for whom talking is difficult and talking about uncomfortable feelings is almost impossible. She has experience in working with couples, groups and individuals.
Sophie Frost BA Hons - Therapist
Sophie works as a therapist for The Recover Clinic, predominantly running our eating disorders therapy groups. Sophie began her career working in a private treatment facility where she worked closely with those affected by addiction and eating disorders. Sophie now works as the UK Clinical Coordinator for a facility in South Africa and also as a therapist for The Recover Clinic. Alongside her professional work, Sophie helped to develop a volunteer project dedicated to supporting and counselling women who have been the victims of sexual violence.
Sophie has completed a certificate in Counselling and Psychotherapy and is currently completing an MA in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Tavistock in North London.
Stephanie Jory PgDip BA Hons - Therapist
Stephanie works as a one to one therapist for the Recover Clinic. She first came into the recovery profession through working with the Royal college of Psychiatrists and various other psychiatric hospitals. Alongside this, she works in the autistic arena and with the Ministry of Defence, helping with Officer counselling training. She has also had extensive experience in the 12-step recovery field.
Prior to this she has worked as an actress in Theatre and TV and as an artist, doing Figurative work and Portraiture.
She is currently doing an MSc in Psychotherapy at Roehampton University.
Dee Harrington - Pilates Instructor
Dee Harrington has been practicing the Pilates Method for 25 years and teaching it for the last seven years. Dee says that Pilates has been the only exercise that she has really enjoyed and the only one, which continues to challenge her. It takes practice and you can do the mat method anywhere. Since becoming a teacher Dee has learnt a great deal about the uniqueness of the human body and how to adopt the exercises to suit the individual client. Dee helps clients feel relaxed through the breath control and rhythmical movements as well as teaching the technique for lean strong muscles and a flat firm centre. Many people suffer physical and emotional pain through injuries and trauma, and through the stretching and Pilates Method, Dee has been able to free up tight and painful areas of their bodies.
Dany Lee Lic Ac, MBAcC, Lic, OHM, RCHM, BSc Hom - Acupuncturist
Dany places great emphasis on treating the individual, the holistic approach of Acupuncture and Homeopathy recognises the enormous potential of the human body to adjust, repair and re-balance itself with a little help - thereby restoring good health and enhancing energy and well being.
A qualified TCM Acupuncturist and Herbalist, Dany trained for five years at the London Academy of Oriental Medicine and the London College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, followed by a three year Honours Degree in Homeopathy at University of Westminster.
She has 10 years experience treating a wide variety of ailments, specialising in addiction, gynecological problems, fertility, hormonal imbalances and immune support with a particular interest in the mental and emotional roots of illness. She is a member of the British Acupuncture Council.
David Gilmour - Founder & Director
David is the founder and director of The Recover Clinic. David has worked within the treatment field for the last 5 years. He originally had a very successful career in the music industry that he left to pursue his dream of helping people to get well and find recovery. Since then he has seen The Recover Clinic help hundreds of people get well and this has in turn inspired him further and he is now working towards his MA in Integrative Psychotherapy at Roehampton University.
