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 formally embarking on a training path I worked with 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 workshop about self-care.


In addition to being a secondary school teacher I run a small private practice in Pimlico, facilitate Reflective Practice for practicioners working in the Social Care sector. I am also a supervisor for a London-based charity supporting Eastern- Europeans living in the 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, belonging , migration, social justice, intercultural issues as well as socio-economic impact on mental health and wellbeing.


I work with:

• Severe anxiety and depression
• Stress and burnout
• Bereavement
• LGBT+
• Creative industries related issues – musicians, dances, actors, performers
• Caring professions related issues: teachers, social workers, nurses, doctors
• Psychosomatic manifestations of emotional issues
• Trauma/abuse

• Disability
• Special Educational Needs
• Identity (race, culture, religion, gender)
• Adolescents
• Couples

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 Social Studies and History


Qualifications:

​MSc in Gestalt psychotherapy, Middlesex University

Clinical Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy Metanoia Institute,London

Diploma in Integrative Supervision, The Grove , London ( in progress)

B.A in English / English teaching with QTS Kolegium Karkonoskie, Poland

CELTA Course South Thames College, London

Diploma of Higher Education History , Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Poland

In addition over 2000 hours of a variety Continuous Professional Development trainings including most recently:


Gestalt Play Therapy
Gestalt Couples' Therapy
Sand Tray training
Working with children and adolescents using the Arts
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 during the Covid-19 pandemic
Compassion Focused Approach for Reflective Practice

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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