Matt | Adults and Young Persons Counsellor

Online therapy

I offer online therapy via Google Meets.

Qualifications and registrations

• BACP Registration: MBACP 00964389, Register no. 399255.
• Postgraduate Diploma with Merit in Humanistic Psychotherapeutic Counselling, University of Brighton, 22 June 2022.
• CPCAB Level 5 Counselling Children and Young People Advanced Specialist Training, LRS Counselling Training. November 2022 - August 2023.
• L4 Certificate in Understanding Substance Misuse, Renaissance Horizons, London. January-February 2020.
• How to do Counselling Online, BACP and Open University Certificate. 4th November 2020.
• Advanced Level 5 Certificate in Counselling Children and Young People (August 2023)
• L3 Certificate in Understanding Substance Misuse (March 2020).
• Lovely Messy Humans - Rethinking Self-Harm (February 2024).
• Practitioner Skills for Eating Disorders (National Centre for Eating Disorders, October 2025).
  
  

I qualified from the University of Brighton with a Merit in Humanistic Psychotherapeutic Counselling.

 

I also have an Advanced Level 5 Qualification in working with Children and Young people - if issues that relate to childhood and adolescence come up, my understanding of this period may be beneficial. 

 

I have previously worked for a South London based Counselling Agency, the NHS under Wandsworth borough, and Catch 22, a charitable organisation also based in South London.

 

I have a CPCAB qualification in Substance Misuse which is an area of interest for me.

 

The main thing I am trying to do is to help you understand things a little better. I do this by helping you to think differently, and at times challenging your existing behaviours, beliefs and perceptions. I have successfully worked with clients on issues around anxiety, self-worth and not feeling good enough. I did this by helping my clients to both explore difficult feelings, and to see perceived failures and weaknesses as examples of resilience and achievements.

Recently I have worked a lot with clients with an autism diagnosis on issues related to self-acceptance, rigidity of thinking and boundaries.

I have worked with trauma with different clients by helping them see how the trauma effects them now, and also guiding them through past incidents and previously buried feelings.

I have helped clients through work related issues and family problems by being in their corner and helping them see their feelings are absolutely valid. I can also help to change patterns of behaviour.

I am particularly interested in working with issues related to substance misuse, LGBTQIA+, identity, discrimination and race. I also have specialist training in working with young people  aged 13+ . I completed CPD on working with Gender in Counselling in July 2025. My pronouns are he/him.

A little about me personally would be I love music, paricularly hip hop and dance music, most sports, reading classic and historic literature or anything with an international element. I also love to travel - I'm currently nearing 60 countries visited I think. I'm a keen runner as well and have completed 5 marathons, amongst other races, most recently in Paris in April 2025.

Areas of counselling I can help with

• ✓ Abuse
• ✓ Addiction
• ✓ Anger management
• ✓ Anxiety
• ✓ Attachment disorder
• ✓ Being a perfectionist
• ✓ Being assertive
• ✓ Bereavement, grief, loss
• ✓ Bullying
• ✓ Burnout
• ✓ Childhood emotional neglect (CEN)
• ✓ Codependency
• ✓ Communication
• ✓ Self confidence
• ✓ Covid-19 Anxiety

• ✓ Depression
• ✓ Eating disorders
• ✓ Eating problems
• ✓ Family problems
• ✓ Fear
• ✓ Feeling lonely
• ✓ Feeling sad
• ✓ Food addiction
• ✓ Hoarding
• ✓ Insecurity
• ✓ Jealousy
• ✓ LGBT-issues
• ✓ Low self esteem
• ✓ Neurodiversity
• ✓ Obsessive compulsive disorder

• ✓ Panic attack
• ✓ Panic disorder
• ✓ Performance anxiety
• ✓ Phobia
• ✓ Post-traumatic stress disorder
• ✓ Redundancy
• ✓ Relationship issues
• ✓ Self-harm
• ✓ Setting boundaries
• ✓ Sleep problems
• ✓ Social phobia
• ✓ Stress
• ✓ Trauma
• ✓ Workplace stress
• ✓ Worrying too much

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