Honest before reassuring
If a practice is unlikely to help you, we say so. Trust is built on the times we talk you out of something.
About the practice
We named ourselves after the willow.
The willow bends through the storm and stays rooted. That is the kind of steadiness we teach: flexible, grounded, and quietly durable. Salix Practice exists for people who want to understand their inner weather, not just survive it.
Our story
Founded on a frustration
Salix began in 2015 when two clinicians grew tired of a false choice: cold clinics on one side, loud self-help on the other. Neither felt like a place a genuinely anxious person could settle.
So we built the room we wished existed. Warm enough to relax in, rigorous enough to trust. We kept the evidence base of good therapy and let go of the clipboard distance. We kept the encouragement of coaching and let go of the hype.
A decade on, we are still small on purpose. We would rather know every person who walks through the door than scale into a brand. Most of our work still happens in the same three rooms, with the same unhurried pace.
Established 2015
Evidence-led
Small by choice
How we hold ourselves
Four commitments we will not bend
Yours to keep
Success is you not needing us. Every programme ends with a ritual you own and can run alone.
Slow on purpose
We protect the pace. No upsells mid-session, no urgency manufactured to move you faster.
Whole-person care
Sleep, movement, relationships and meaning sit in the same conversation as technique.
The people
A small team who stay with you
You will not be passed between strangers. The practitioner you meet first is the one who walks the whole season with you.
Dr. Priya Adeyemi
Founder · Clinical lead
A clinical psychologist who spent a decade in NHS talking therapies before founding Salix. Priya designs our resilience programmes and supervises the team. She believes in fewer techniques, practised properly.
Callum Reyes
Co-founder · Mindfulness practitioner
Callum leads our self-awareness circles and breathwork sessions. Trained in MBCT and ACT, he is the calmest person in any room and the first to ask the question you were avoiding.
Esther Lindqvist
Practitioner · Workplace wellbeing
Esther brings our practices to teams and organisations. An organisational psychologist by training, she translates clinical care into language a busy workplace can actually use.
When you are ready
Come and see if we fit
The best way to know us is a single conversation. No pressure, no assessment dressed up as a chat.