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

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21 Rathbone Street | London | W1T 1NF
UKCP Reg Psychotherapist
I provide Face to Face Counselling, Psychotherapy from £35.00
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.
Couples: first session set at £55.00, subsequent appointments between £45.00 and £65.00.
Families: first session set at £55.00, subsequent appointments between £45.00 and £65.00.
Approximate length of one appointment: 50 minutes
Approximate length of therapy: six months.
Languages: English
Nearest Train Station: Euston.
Nearest Tube Station: Tottenham Court Road, Goodge Street.
I am in easy reach of: Central London, University College London, West End, Soho, Fitzrovia, Bloomsbury, Oxford Circus.
Wheelchair access: No
I provide Telephone Counselling for £39.00
Approximate length of one Telephone appointment: 50 minutesApproximate length of Telephone counselling: six months.
Languages: English
I provide Email Counselling for £17.00
Approximate time I will spend on an Email response to a client: 20 minutesApproximate length of Email counselling: three months.
Languages: English
Problems I offer Counselling, Psychotherapy for
Abuse, Addiction to Love and Sex, Anger, Anorexia, Anxiety, Assertiveness, Bereavement, Childhood issues, Confidence 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, Marriage (Marital relations), Midlife crisis, Obsessions, OCD, Panic attacks, Personal growth, Personal relationships, Personality difficulties, Personality disorders, Phobias, Post traumatic stress, Psychosexual issues, Rape, Same-sex relationships, Self-development, Self-esteem, Self-harm, Sexual abuse, Sexual behaviour, Sexuality, Social phobia, Spirituality, Stress, Transitions, Trauma, Unresolved issues, Work issues and relationshipsClinical Experience in Counselling, 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.How I Work
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 Training in Counselling, 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.Updated 11|02|2010



