Martin Jelfs MA (Hons) MBACP (Snr Accred) MHAPP

General Availability

Weekday Daytimes, Weekday Evenings

UKCP Reg Psychotherapist

I provide Face to Face Counselling and Psychotherapy in Fitzrovia, London

I offer fees on a sliding scale depending on your financial situation (no proof required).
Individuals: first session set at £42.50, subsequent appointments between £35.00 and £50.00 - 50 minutes.
Couples: first session set at £55.00, subsequent appointments between £45.00 and £65.00 - 50 minutes.
Families: first session set at £55.00, subsequent appointments between £45.00 and £65.00 - 50 minutes.
Groups: first session set at £0.00, subsequent appointments between £0.00 and £0.00 - minutes.
Approximate length of therapy: six months.
Languages: English

I provide Telephone Counselling

Fee: Individuals £39.00

Approximate length of one Telephone appointment: 50 minutes
Approximate length of Telephone Counselling: six months.
Languages: English

I provide Email Counselling

Fee: Individuals £17.00

Approximate time I will spend on an Email response to a client: 20 minutes
Approximate length of Email counselling: three months.
Languages: English

I offer Private Counselling and Psychotherapy Services for these Issues

Abuse, Addiction to Love and Sex, Anger, Anorexia Nervosa, Anxiety, Assertiveness, Bereavement, Childhood Issues, Couple Relationships, Cultural Issues, Depression, Dissociation, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Eating Disorders, Fear, Hysteria, Identity, Impotency, Inhibitions, Internet Addiction, Internet Pornography Addiction, Internet Sexual Compulsivity, Lack of Meaning in Life, Lesbian Issues, Loneliness, Low Self Confidence, Low Self Esteem, Marriage (Marital Relations), Midlife Crisis, Obsessions, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Panic Attacks, Personal Growth, Personal Relationships, Personality Difficulties, Personality Disorders (PD), Phobias, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Psychosexual Issues, Rape, Same Sex Relationships, Self Development, Self Harm, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Behaviour, Sexuality, Social Phobia, Spirituality, Stress, Transitions, Trauma, Unresolved Issues, Workplace Issues and Work Relationship Problems

My Counselling and Psychotherapy Therapeutic Approaches

Client Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Existential Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Humanistic Therapy, Integrative Therapy, Person Centred Therapy, Psychoanalytic Therapy, Systemic Therapy, Transpersonal Therapy

Gender

Male

Clinical Experience in Counselling and Psychotherapy

I have worked as a psychotherapist for twenty five years, training initially in body and energy psychotherapy and later in other forms including Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) at Guy's Hospital. I am UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) Registered and as a result of wide experience in private practice; setting up and running a counselling service for a local MIND; work with Employee Assistance Programmes with people sent from their work settings (e.g., traumatised by armed robberies and other critical incidents). I have a wide range of experience of many client groups and settings and issues. I have worked with some psychiatric issues and personality disorders, including borderline personality disorder and have extensive experience of working with people who have been sexually abused as children. This has given me an interest in dissociation, somatic symptoms, working with body processes and symptoms and in sexuality and sexual behaviour. Alongside this I have an interest in spirituality, mindfulness, and meditation and for the last ten years have run tantra workshops combining sexuality and spirituality with my wife.

What to Expect during Counselling and Psychotherapy

I use the relationship as the container for the work and the stronger this is the better. For some, the work on the relationship is the main work, for most it then allows work using bodywork, or techniques from Gestalt or energy psychology working on the way trauma is held in the body and the energy system as well as the resulting beliefs. Challenging beliefs is rarely enough, it needs techniques, such as AIT to resolve the trauma underpinning the beliefs.

Clinical Qualifications in Counselling and Psychotherapy

Three years at the Boyesen Centre in biodynamic psychotherapy. Training at the Minster Centre in integrative therapy. Training in Eriksonian psychotherapy, one year training in Integrative Psychotherapy at Metanoia. An MA in Integrative Psychotherapy by dissertation at East London University. Two years training in Cognitive Analytic Therapy at Guy's Hospital in London. Ongoing CPD and in the last year, training in Advanced Integrative Therapy with Asha Clinton.

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My Consulting Address is in easy reach of: Tottenham Court Road, Soho, Oxford Circus, Fitzrovia, West End, Regent Street, Harley Street, Regents Park, Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, Covent Garden, North Marylebone, Holborn, Bloomsbury, Bond Street, Euston, Charing Cross, Strand, Oxford Street, Embankment

Nearest Train Stations: London Euston, London Charing Cross, London St Pancras, London King's Cross, King's Cross Thameslink, Camden Road, London Marylebone, Farringdon, City Thameslink, London Blackfriars

Nearest London Underground Tube Stations: Goodge Street, Oxford Circus, Warren Street, Leicester Square, Piccadilly Circus

Wheelchair access: No