About Me

I am Professor Michael Atar, a psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapist. I work with families, parents, carers, and their children, drawing on my expertise from various life experiences such as my medical background, working as a paediatric dentist for over 25 years, and being a father of a large family with children of various ages.
Whilst I do adopt a psychoanalytic observational stance, I don’t approach therapy from the position of “expert”. My belief in therapy focuses on awareness, understanding, and gentle support. As the word therapy suggests facilitating and serving, my work emphasises a collaborative experience, whereby I will ask you to define your own targets and goals for our work; we will do our best to achieve them together. I offer a warm, non-judgmental, welcoming environment. I work online via Zoom, and in-person in the comfort of your own home.
I work with whole families of any size, couples, individuals in one-to-one sessions, parents or single parents, carers of any gender, together with their babies, infants, toddlers, or adolescents. I also work with adults, adolescents and children presenting with a variety of mental health issues such as postnatal depression, PTSD or borderline personality disorder. In addition, I address general issues concerning your child’s development such as difficulties connecting, eating, sleeping, or feeding issues and neurodiversity such as Aspergers or ASD. I accompany individuals before, during, and after pregnancy, offering prenatal and postnatal support. My main focus is the relationship between parents, carers and their children.
Within the UKCP, I am registered with the College for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapies CCAP, as well as the Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis College CPJAC.
I do hope I will have the privilege of working with you. Please feel free to contact me via phone on 079 0623 0712 or email on matar@atarfamilyoffice.com.

I work with

• Children and young people
• Couples
• Families
• Groups
• Individuals

Special Interests

Like all UKCP registered psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors I can work with a wide range of issues, but here are some areas in which I have a special interest or additional experience.

Types of Therapies Offered

• Parent Infant Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

What I can help with

• Abuse
• ADHD
• Adoption
• Anger Management
• Anxiety
• Autism
• Bereavement
• Bullying
• Couple Issues
• Depression
• Disability
• Divorce
• Family
• Infertility
• Mental Health Issues
• Online Counselling
• Parents
• Post-Traumatic Stress
• Relationships
• Separation
• Sexual Abuse
• Spirituality
• Step Families
• Stress
• Suicide
• Telephone Counselling
• Trauma