About Me


I began my formal therapeutic training in 2006 and have been working as a therapist since 2008 across a range of settings in London, including Centre for Better Health, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Dance and Music, Metanoia Counselling Services, and Turning Point.
Before entering formal training, my work was shaped by learning from teachers and therapists across diverse traditions, including Jungian analysis, eco-philosophy, shamanism, and process-oriented psychotherapy. These early influences continue to inform my relational, integrative approach.

My professional experience includes working as a counsellor with children and adolescents in a London community school, as well as supporting trainee therapists as a support assistant on the Gestalt MSc course at the Metanoia Institute. More recently, I have facilitated workshops for parents and teenagers focusing on wellbeing, stress, and navigating the digital and cyber world safely and in a more informed way

Alongside my psychotherapy practice, I am a secondary school teacher and run a private practice in Pimlico. I also facilitate reflective practice groups for practitioners working in the Social Care sector and work as a clinical supervisor for a London-based charity supporting migrants living in the UK.

I am part of the dance/movement and mindfulness community, and I integrate embodied and mindfulness-based practices into my therapeutic work where appropriate.

Areas of InterestI have a particular interest in working with:

• Shame and perfectionism
• Belonging, loneliness, and isolation
• Migration and displacement
• Trauma
• Social justice and intercultural issues
• The socio-economic impact on mental health and wellbeing

I Work with:

• Anxiety and depression
• Stress and burnout
• LGBTQ+ 
• Creative industries (musicians, dancers, actors, performers)
• Caring professions (teachers, social workers, nurses, doctors)
• Psychosomatic and embodied expressions of emotional distress
• Trauma (PTSD and CPTSD)
• Identity (race, culture, religion, gender, sexuality)

Professional Background 

My background is in teaching and teacher training. I work with individual students and small groups, including learners with English as an Additional Language (EAL) and students with Special Educational (SEN) and Behavioural Needs. I also teach mainstream Social Studies, History, and Religious Education.

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 (Grade B), South Thames College, London
• BA in English / English Teaching with QTS, Kolegium Karkonoskie, Poland
• History, University of Wrocław, Poland

​In addition to my core training, I have completed over 3,000 hours of Continuous Professional Development (CPD).

​My most recent post-qualification trainings include:

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
​Introduction to working with young people with ASD 
EFT Tango yearly seminars
Gestalt therapy in Action: Supervision in Gestalt Therapy  seminars series 
Cultivating Bodily knowing 
​EMDR Toolbox 

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

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