Dr MJ Mellor
Psychotherapist
Mental health professional specialising in adult psychotherapy
What is psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy can offer the opportunity to explore, with the help of another mind, the aspects of life that may be presenting particular challenges. By meeting regularly and thinking together in a confidential space, psychotherapy can help to generate a deeper understanding of the dynamics that may underlie your emotional life, thought processes, and patterns of relating.
A psychodynamic/psychoanalytic approach to therapy acknowledges that many of the things which influence our experience may not always be immediately accessible to conscious awareness. It also takes into account that deep change can take time and require frequent contact; individuals in this kind of therapy would normally be seen at least once a week for a year or more.
The rich understanding of the mind that's given the opportunity to develop through this kind of work can ultimately open up a greater capacity for choice in how we live, think, and relate.
Dr Matthew John Mellor | Greenwich, London
DPPClinPrac, MSc, MA(Hons), PGDip, PGCert, MBACP
Doctor of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Clinical Practice. Licensed adult psychotherapist, registered with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Training and qualifications in psychotherapeutic clinical practice, theory, and research undertaken at the University of Exeter, University College London, Oxford University, the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
Alongside private practice, I work as a senior adult psychodynamic psychotherapist at Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) specialising in the treatment of individuals with personality disorders and complex needs.
Special interest in the interface between psychoanalysis and the neurosciences; research and publications listed below. Adjacent expertise in public health technology research & development. Appointed as Digital Portfolio Lead at EPUT.
Available to see clients for regular sessions at consulting rooms in Greenwich. Get in touch to discuss fees.
Publications
Mellor, M. J. (2026). A matter of psychic life and death: reappraising the death drive and its link to psychosis through the prism of the free energy principle. Frontiers in Psychology, 17:1795266. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1795266
Mellor, M. J. (2021). The Emergence of Psychoanalytic Metaneuropsychology: A Neuropsychoanalytically Informed Reconsideration of Early Psychic Development. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:701637. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.701637
Mellor, M. J. (2018). Making Worlds in a Waking Dream: Where Bion Intersects Friston on the Shaping and Breaking of Psychic Reality. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:1674. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01674