Therapist, author and co-founder of Charter Harley Street
MSc, BACP (reg), SMMPP, NCAC (accred)
Expert therapist, Mandy Saligari, is the co-founder and clinical director of Charter, which was set up in 2008 as the first outpatient clinic solely specialising in private addiction treatment. Charter remains one of London’s leading treatment facilities for addiction – now exclusively ONLINE.
Expert therapist, Mandy Saligari, is the co-founder and clinical director of Charter, which was set up in 2008 as London’s first outpatient clinic solely specialising in private addiction treatment. Charter remains an invaluable step in thousands of people’s transformations and recovery journeys – and for their families too.
Mandy’s first contact with the world of addiction recovery was when she went into treatment herself in 1990, when working as a TV producer. Over the following years, Mandy made the transition from patient to therapist, undertaking apprenticeships, group work, interventions, lectureships, and eventually taking on clients, earning herself a reputation for clinical excellence and delivering thorough recovery outcomes over 3 decades.
Mandy is a highly respected and established expert, passionate about helping people live healthy, happy, addiction free lives, challenging the negative patterns that can devastate families.
Mandy is a regular contributor to press and television. Her book Proactive Parenting, released in 2019 by Orion Spring, was a number one bestseller in its field. She has filmed a number of TV series for Channel 5; In Therapy, Celebrities in Therapy, Violent Child, Desperate Parents and Addicted to Food: Breaking the Cycle alongside regular appearances on This Morning, Jeremy Vine, LBC.
Mandy is passionate about dispelling the myths surrounding addiction and mental health and is a compelling public speaker.
For more information on services available at Charter and how we may be able to help, please get in touch.
To find out more about Proactive Parenting and our Living Well Programme, follow the links below:
Public Speaking
Mandy is a well-known spokesperson on family, relationships and addiction. Interested in early intervention, Mandy prioritises the lessons learned in early childhood and from our families, explaining how to communicate calmly, with dignity and self-respect. Using anecdotes and real life examples interspersed with clinical experience, Mandy’s talks are engaging, highly informative and give specific tools to the audience, leaving them well-resourced, and with a fresh perspective.
To discuss booking Mandy, please contact the office via info@charterharleystreet.com.
Media/Press & TV
Mandy is an experienced broadcaster having worked with national TV and Radio networks, together with contributing to print and online outlets.
Her expert opinions, coupled with an authoritative voice, make her a natural choice for broadcasters needing a professional yet personal and engaging opinion on addiction, parenting and relationships. Relaxed in front of a camera, and with a clear and distinct way of expressing herself to an audience Mandy finds it easy to captivate the viewer, or reader, bringing clarity to sensitive issues.
To discuss booking Mandy, please contact the office via info@charterharleystreet.com.
Read Mandy’s book detailing her approach available on Amazon:
Proactive Parenting: Help your child conquer self-destructive behaviours and build self-esteem
‘A book with really helpful insights… we should all read knowing that we can make a difference’
Dame Benny Refson, DBE President of Place2Be
IN THERAPY
CHANNEL 5
British celebrities offer us unprecedented access to their private lives and personal crises as they undergo intensive therapy with therapist and addiction specialist, Mandy Saligari.
In a bid to understand who each celebrity really is, they explore every aspect of their pasts: troubled childhoods and love affairs, infidelity and divorce, abuse and addiction, obsessions with fame and media courtship, the brutality of bankruptcy and career catastrophe.
Filmed via a fixed camera rig, this series combines the privileged intimacy of the therapy room, with interviews from closest family and friends. In Therapy reveals these celebrities as never before.
Danniella Westbrook VIEW »
Gemma Collins VIEW »
Kerry Katona VIEW »
Coleen Nolan VIEW »
Paul Burrell VIEW »
Anthea Turner VIEW »
Bobby Davro VIEW »
Claire King VIEW »
Linda Nolan VIEW »
CELEBRITIES IN THERAPY
CHANNEL 5
After the success of the first Channel 5 In Therapy series, more celebrities find themselves on the couch with Mandy.
VIOLENT CHILD, DESPERATE PARENTS
CHANNEL 5
In this ground-breaking documentary series, Mandy takes on some of the UK’s most violent and difficult children, trying to figure out what makes their behaviour so extreme and how to handle it. Mandy’s brand of therapy focuses on her belief that no child is ever beyond help, however bad their behaviour has become. She believes that the problem is never just the child, but the family dynamics in which they grow up. So she is determined to tackle the behaviour but also to challenge the family dynamics to ensure the change lasts.
ADDICTED TO FOOD: BREAKING THE CYCLE
CHANNEL 5
Therapist and eating disorder specialist Mandy Saligari visits 24-stone single mum Kara at home for five intensive therapy sessions, to get to the root of her addiction to food.
Kara VIEW »
TEDX TALK
‘Mandy hit the nail on the head! There is so much healing from childhood wounds that this TED Talk provides’.
‘This is the best advice I’ve ever had. She’s got me pegged. A map that tells me just why I am how I am, and what I can do about it’.
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