Anita Chellamah-Nurse
“ I feel so grateful to be living a clean and sober life and know I am perfectly imperfect and to be able to accept life as it is. The support of my amazing family and friends is PRICELESS!!”
Anita Chellamah-Nurse is an accredited addiction trauma DBT counsellor. She specialises in addiction and childhood trauma, and she believes addressing both can empower people to live a life free of being a slave to addictive patterns and processes, such as love addiction, and learn how to have healthy relationships with the self and others and live a life with purpose. Anita has worked in 11 treatment centres (residential and day programmes with individuals and families affected by addiction, has been DBT lead at Sanctuary Lodge (flagship of UKAT Addiction), and delivered addiction and DBT Therapy for The London Clinic.
In the past, she qualified as a counsellor in 1998 from Roehampton Institute in Humanistic Counselling.
Anita was part of a pilot government scheme called “Wise up” in the 1990s, going into schools for young people affected by addiction and was a therapeutic lead at a domestic violence charity. She also ran drama workshops for people affected by HIV and AIDS at The London Lighthouse.
Anita was Trauma Lead at The Priory for 18 months and has delivered trauma workshops while also working on The Addiction Programme and is Qualified on stage 1 and Advanced Post -Induction Therapy. She also delivers a five day trauma programme and provides supervision for therapists delivering trauma programmes
Anita’s career started in the 1970s in the Trail Blazing Black musical “ Bubbling Brown Sugar “in London’s West End, then in the 1980s received a Gold record in Girl Band Toto Coelo. She has danced on Top of The Pops in the dance group Legs and Co, co wrote and was lead singer with The Cherry Bombz and was voted 10th best female vocalist 1986. She was one of the first presenters for Sky Channel (and of colour), singing their five-year anniversary song, also acting in the last episode of One foot in the Grave and playing Tina Modotti in a BBC short film about Tina Modotti’s Life.
Anita reached her own rock bottom with alcohol and drugs and got clean and sober in 1988, and her life and career changed.
Anita Chellamah-Nurse specialises in the following
Dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT)
A type of talking therapy designed to help people who feel emotions particularly intensely and who struggle to regulate their emotions.
Trauma therapy
A specialised form of psychotherapy designed to help individuals process and heal from distressing, life-threatening, or overwhelming events.
Group therapy
Highly effective for treating conditions like anxiety, depression, and trauma. It offers unique benefits, including reduced feelings of isolation, shared coping strategies, and significantly shorter waiting times than one-on-one sessions.
Co-dependency
In therapy, individuals can learn to identify and challenge the beliefs that drive their co-dependent behaviours. This may involve working on self-esteem, learning to assert one's needs, and developing a more balanced approach to relationships where mutual respect and support are prioritised.
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