About Regina
Regina Martins is a Counsellor Psychologist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council and a psychodynamic counsellor accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She trained first in Psychology in Brazil and later completed psychodynamic counselling training in the UK, with a year studying Trauma and Psychoanalysis at the Tavistock Clinic. Regina has 16 years of clinical experience.
She has worked across education, community and health settings in London boroughs.
Background and approach
That work included both short-term and longer-term psychotherapy with adults and older adults from diverse backgrounds. She has a particular interest in helping people who have moved between cultures and in offering therapy in English and Portuguese. Regina uses psychodynamic ideas to look at how past and present experiences shape current patterns.
She pays attention to relational hurts and repeating behaviours that often trace back to family relationships. Sessions aim to make those patterns clearer and to open up choices in day-to-day life. Her style is warm and attentive.
She encourages people to bring what feels difficult and talks through how those problems show up now. The focus is on understanding and gradual change rather than quick fixes. Regina works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, phobias, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, grief, eating and sleeping problems, addiction-related worries and life transitions.
She also offers support around attachment, abandonment, body image and caregiver stress among other topics.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Regina commonly draws on psychodynamic and attachment-based ways of working to explore recurring patterns and relationship wounds. Psychodynamic therapy looks at how past experiences and early relationships shape current feelings and behaviours, which can help with anxiety, depression, phobias and interpersonal difficulties. Attachment-based therapy focuses on how connection and early bonds influence present-day relationships and coping, useful for intimacy issues, abandonment concerns and attachment difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Regina will discuss your goals and preferences and help choose or adapt methods that feel right for you. That choice is collaborative and can shift as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls let you keep a face-to-face rhythm without travel. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when you want to avoid being on camera. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, quick reflections between sessions or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while keeping the focus on understanding patterns and making steady change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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