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I began my formal therapeutic training journey in 2006 and since 2008 I have been working as a therapist in various settings across London: Centre For Better Health, Trinity/Laban Conservatoire of dance and music, Metanoia Counselling Services and Turning Point. Long before embarking on a training path I was inspired by teachers and therapists from a variety of approaches- including Jungian analysis, eco-philosophy, shamanism and process-oriented psychotherapy. I worked as a counsellor with children and adolescents in one of community schools in London as well as one of the support assistants on a Gestalt MSc course in Metanoia Institute. Recently I have been facilitating a series of workshops for parents and teenagers about wellbeing, stress and navigating the cyber-world in a safer way. In addition to being a secondary school teacher I run a private practice in Pimlico and facilitate reflective practice for practicioners working in the Social Care sector. I am also a clinical supervisor for a London-based charity supporting migrants living in UK. I am part of dance/movement and mindfulness community and I incorporate these pratcices into my work. I am especially interested in working with shame and perfectionism, belonging, loneliness and isolation, migration, trauma, social justice, feminism, intercultural issues as well as socio-economic impact on mental health and wellbeing. I work with:
My professional background is in teaching and teaching training. I work with individual students and small groups of students who have English as an Additional Language and students with Special Educational and Behavioural Needs. I also teach mainstream Social Studies, History and R.E. Qualifications: MSc in Gestalt psychotherapy, Middlesex University, London Clinical Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy Metanoia Institute,London Level 6 Diploma in Integrative Supervision (merit) The Grove, London EMDR Practitioner training, Levels 1-3, Richman EMDR training, London CELTA Course (Grade B) South Thames College, London B.A in English/ English teaching with QTS Kolegium Karkonoskie, Poland History , Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Poland In addition to my core training where I completed over 2000 hours of a variety Continuous Professional Development (CPD) trainings these are the most recent post qualification trainings: Gestalt Play Therapy certificate Gestalt Couples' Therapy certificate Sand Tray training Working with children and adolescents using the Arts certificate Writes of passage - dancing and creative writing Trauma informed psychotherapy- CBT/ Schema approach ELKLAN Level 3 Speech and Language for vulnerable young adults Writing for therapeutic purposes MBSR full course Creative writing for therapeutic purposes Mental Health for children post Covid-19 Compassion Focused Approach for Reflective Practice Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) First sessions with adolescents - Gestalt approach Free Fall- creative writing course Working with body and Movement in Psychotherapy Storytelling-step by step Introduction to EFT with couples EFT and trauma with couples EFT and attachment wounds in couples |
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Do not try to save
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create
a clearing
in the dense forest
of your life
and wait there
patiently,
until the song
that is your life
falls into your own cupped hands
Martha Postlewaite
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create
a clearing
in the dense forest
of your life
and wait there
patiently,
until the song
that is your life
falls into your own cupped hands
Martha Postlewaite
