Dr Smriti Bhatta graduated from Calcutta Medical College in 2000 and completed her MD in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 2003. After relocating to the UK in 2005, she achieved MRCOG in 2007 and subsequently completed specialist training, being awarded FRCOG by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

She works as a Senior Clinician at the Aberdeen Fertility Centre, where she is a core member of the fertility and assisted conception services. Her role includes direct patient care, training of clinical staff and junior colleagues, and ensuring delivery of evidence-based, safe, and clinically effective fertility services.

Dr Bhatta is actively involved in research within the centre, has supervised postgraduate research students, and holds a strong academic interest in medical education. She was awarded Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in 2020 and currently serves as Deputy Lead for Assessment within healthcare programmes.

Leah Athanassopoulos is a psychotherapist and educator with over a decade of experience supporting individuals and couples through emotional, relational, and psychological challenges. She brings a thoughtful combination of clinical expertise, academic leadership, and relational insight to her work, offering a calm, structured, and compassionate approach to mental health care.

Leah is the Programme Director for Counselling at the University of Aberdeen, where she teaches, supervises trainee therapists, and contributes to research. Her academic work explores empathy, emotional regulation, and the therapeutic impact of counselling, with a strong emphasis on ethical, reflective, and evidence-informed practice.

A core focus of Leah's clinical work is trauma and its effects on attachment, emotional regulation, and interpersonal relationships. She integrates trauma-informed approaches across her therapeutic practice, educational leadership, and organisational consultation, supporting both individuals and systems to develop greater psychological safety, resilience, and self-understanding.

Leah specialises in working with high-profile individuals and couples, providing a discreet, confidential, and professionally attuned therapeutic space. Her approach combines evidence-based methods with a deep understanding of human connection, offering practical tools alongside compassionate, reflective guidance grounded in both research and lived clinical experience.

Dr Martin Gryszkiewicz-MacKenzie holds a PhD in Psychology and is an accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Psychotherapist with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP). He is also a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS).

He worked for ten years at Royal Cornhill Hospital, primarily within inpatient mental health settings, and since 2022 has been practising as a CBT Therapist with NHS Grampian. In parallel, for over a decade, he has served as Clinical Director for Psychological Help, Counselling, and Pedagogy Services at the Polish Association Aberdeen, a local charitable organisation.

Dr Gryszkiewicz-MacKenzie has extensive experience working with adolescents and adults, supporting individuals with depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, behaviour change and wellbeing promotion, long-term health conditions, and psychosexual health concerns.

He is committed to ongoing professional development and is currently undertaking Stage 2 training in Health Psychology through the BPS, working towards qualification as a Health Psychologist. Dr Gryszkiewicz-MacKenzie offers face-to-face and online therapy at Alpha Hospital Group in English and Polish.

Meghan G. Donnelly is a qualified counsellor with an MSc in Person-Centred Counselling from the University of Aberdeen. Prior to training as a counsellor, she worked for nine years as a university instructor and has professional experience supporting young adults with autism and learning disabilities.

She has experience delivering counselling in person and online, as well as two years of volunteer work on a crisis lifeline in Tokyo, Japan, providing telephone-based emotional support. Living and working across several Asian countries—where mental health is often stigmatised—combined with her own experiences of counselling and EMDR therapy, strongly influenced her decision to pursue a career in counselling.

Hannah Rochford-Lapiso is a qualified counsellor offering a warm, non-judgemental, compassionate, and confidential therapeutic space for children, young people, adults, and families.

Her integrative therapeutic approach draws on Psychodynamic, Person-Centred, and Montessori-based principles, allowing her to provide both short- and long-term counselling, always keeping the individual at the centre of the work.

Hannah brings 18 years of professional experience working with children and parents as a Montessori Teacher, alongside her current counselling practice. In addition to private practice, she works as a School Counsellor for an academy with ACIS Youth (Mental Health Aberdeen).