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I believe that relationships are key to how we are and feel in the world. And that it is throught truly connecting with one another we can heal and thrive.

I began my formal therapeutic training journey in 2006 and since 2008 I have been working in various settings accross London: Centre For Better Health, Trinity/Laban conservatoire of dance and music, Metanoia Counselling Services and Turning Point.

Long before formally embarking on a therapeutic training I worked with teachers and therapists from a variety of approaches- indcluding jungian analysis, eco-philosophy 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.


​I am an active member of London's dance/movement community as well as the mindfulness community and I incorporate these practices into my work.

I am especially interested in research and work with shame, belonging , migration, social justice, intercultural issues as well as socio-economic impact on mental health and wellbeing.

I have experience working with:

  • Severe anxiety and depression
  • Issues within relationships
  • Stress and burnout
  • Bereavement
  • LGBT+issues
  • Creative industries related issues – musicians, dances, actors, performers
  • Caring professions related issues: teachers, social workers, nurses, doctors
  • Psychosomatic manifestations of emotional issues
  • Trauma/abuse
  • Shame
  • Disability
  • Special Educational Needs
  • Identity (race, culture, religion, gender etc.)
  • Adolescents
  • Couples

My professional background is in teaching and teaching training. In addition to teaching I work with students who have English as an Additional Language as well as students with Special Educational and Behavioural Needs.


Qualifications:

​MSc in Gestalt psychotherapy, Middlesex University

Clinical Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy Metanoia Institute,London

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

CELTA Course South Thames College

Diploma of Higher Education History , Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Poland

In addition over 1000 hours of a variety Continuous Professional Development trainings including most recent:


Gestalt Play Therapy
Gestalt Couples' Therapy
Sand Tray
Working with children using the Arts
Writes of passage - dancing and creative writing



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
and you recognize and greet it.
Only then will you know
how to give yourself
to this world
so worth of rescue. 
by Martha Postlewaite