Dr Sagal Hassan

Dr Sagal Hassan, DPsych, is an ACP-registered Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist based in Highgate, North London. She specialises in helping children from toddler-age to adolescence with feelings, relationships and difficulties at home or school.

She trained at the Tavistock and Portman and has more than a decade of experience working with children, young people and families. Her experience spans NHS CAMHS, paediatric hospital services, schools, neurodevelopmental work and multidisciplinary care.

Her specialist interests include the interaction between emotional wellbeing, physical health, neurodivergence, education and family life. She works particularly with school attendance difficulties and emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA), anxiety, masking and burnout, functional symptoms and chronic illness, fear of failure, perfectionism, bullying and social distress. She also offers ADHD coaching and parent coaching.

She has worked across nursery, school, SEND and SEMH settings and has contributed a child psychotherapy perspective to neurodevelopmental assessment. Her paediatric experience includes work with young people across oncology, haematology, Long Covid, Turner Syndrome and allergy services, alongside multidisciplinary work involving complex conditions, pain, fatigue and functional symptoms.

Dr Hassan's professional interests also include mental health innovation, writing and teaching. She previously held a Fellowship with the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme and has presented clinical papers at psychotherapy conferences and delivered training in NHS and private healthcare settings. Her writing and expert contributions have appeared in The Guardian, Metro and The i Paper. She is a full member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP).

Book an initial parent consultation — £200 · 40 minutes · Online · Parents only.

This first appointment can stand alone and includes a one-page A4 recommendations letter. Your child does not attend, and the consultation does not reserve an ongoing psychotherapy place. Psychotherapy assessment is a separate step: £900 for three 50-minute appointments. Ongoing psychotherapy is £300 per 50-minute appointment, weekly during term time. Parent work, professional liaison, letters and reports outside psychotherapy appointments are separately agreed and charged.

In-person ADHD coaching, parent coaching, psychotherapy and psychological therapies are available at 62A Highgate High Street, London N6 5HX. Practice information, fees and booking: https://www.sagalhassan.co.uk/