Our Psychologists
Compass Psychology provides clinical psychology services in English to adults and adolescents in the Helsinki area. Compass Psychology was founded by Annabel Battersby and Jane Tuomola in 2017.
Since 2024, Compass Psychology staff includes eight psychologists who are registered psychologists in Finland: Annabel, Hatty, Kim, Amy, Annelies, Lizeth, Viivi and Clara. They are passionate about offering high quality psychological therapy, training and supervision. For more on their personal bios, please read below.
Amy Lindroos
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Therapeutic style |
Collaborative, Active |
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Training |
Master’s degree in psychology and social psychology |
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Types of therapy offered |
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), CBT for insomnia and CBT for trauma; Integrative therapy; Mindfulness; Motivational interviewing |
Annabel Battersby
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Therapeutic style |
Collaborative, informative and directive |
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Training |
Master’s degree in clinical psychology; Specialised training in ACT and Schema therapy |
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Types of therapy offered |
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT); Schema therapy; Cognitive behavioural therapy; Positive psychology; Mindfulness; Motivational interviewing; Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) |
Annelies Van Tieghem
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Therapeutic style |
Open, Active, Holistic |
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Training |
Master’s degree in clinical psychology |
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Types of therapy offered |
Emotion-focused therapy; Client-centred and systemic therapy; Coherence therapy; Internal Family Systems; Mindfulness; Polyvagal theory and somatic therapy |
Clara de la Riva
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Therapeutic style |
Active, Talkative, Solution-focused |
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Training |
Master’s degree in clinical psychology and human neuroscience |
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Types of therapy offered |
Client-centred therapy; Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT); Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT); Mindfulness; Schema therapy |
Hatty Francis-Ehnholm
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Therapeutic style |
Active, Collaborative, Visualising (writing, mapping and drawing) |
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Training |
Doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology; training in health psychology, chronic health conditions and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT); ongoing psychotherapist training with integrative orientation |
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Types of therapy offered |
Integrative therapy; Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT); Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT); Compassion-focused therapy (CFT); Mindfulness; Narrative therapy; Motivational interviewing |
Jenine Simons
| Languages | English, German, Finnish |
| Therapeutic style | Active, collaborative, educational, culturally sensitive, holistic |
| Training | MBBS Medical degree, 3 years working as a medical doctor in psychiatry, specialised training in DBT, currently a psychotherapy trainee with the University of Helsinki. |
| Types of therapy offered | Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Somatic Therapy, Mindfulness and self-compassion. Currently training in Integrative Cognitive Behavioural therapy. |
Kim Seppälä
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Therapeutic style |
Educational, Holistic |
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Training |
Master’s degree in clinical and health psychology; Training in Experiential therapy, Coherence therapy, and Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) |
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Types of therapy offered |
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT); Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT); Emotionally focused therapy with couples; Integrative and experiential therapy; Mindfulness and self-compassion |
Lizeth Ortiz
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Therapeutic style |
Collaborative, directive, feedback from client encouraged, culture-sensitive approach |
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Training |
Master’s degree in clinical and health psychology; Training in Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) |
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Types of therapy offered |
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and Cognitive therapy; Mindfulness; Positive psychology, integrative elements of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) |
Saija-Liisa Kankaanpää
| Languages | Finnish, English, Spanish, French, some Portuguese |
| Therapeutic style | Holistic, Active, Flexible, Empathetic |
| Training | Master’s degree in psychology and in Spanish philology, Doctoral degree in Psychology |
| Types of therapy offered | Cognitive behavioral therapy methods (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy approach (ACT), Culturally sensitive and Culturally safe approach |
Viivi Elo-Rauta
| Therapeutic style | Active, Collaborative |
| Training | Master’s degree in clinical psychology, and training in ACT and schema therapy |
| Types of therapy offered | Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT); Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT); Interpersonal therapy (IPT); Schema therapy; Mindfulness |