Regina Martins , HCPC, BACP

Regina Martins is a Counsellor Psychologist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and a psychodynamic counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She trained in Psychology in Brazil before completing further training in Psychodynamic Counselling in the United Kingdom and spent a year studying Trauma and Psychoanalysis at the Tavistock Clinic.

With sixteen years of clinical experience, she has worked across educational, community, and health sectors, supporting adults and older people through both short-term and longer-term psychotherapy. Her practice in London has involved working with diverse populations across multiple boroughs, and she has a particular interest in supporting expatriates and people from different cultural backgrounds.

Her therapeutic approach is grounded in psychodynamic principles and object relations theory, attending to how past and present relationships, especially family dynamics and early attachment experiences, shape current patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. She pays close attention to relational trauma, repetitive patterns, and how childhood experiences can influence adult life.

Regina offers therapy in English and Portuguese and provides a warm, professional space where people can bring the concerns that matter to them. She works collaboratively to help make sense of experiences, change unhelpful patterns, and move toward a more satisfying way of living.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support with Regina Martins

Regina draws on psychodynamic and attachment-based approaches to explore how early relationships and inner dynamics influence current struggles. Psychodynamic Therapy focuses on unconscious patterns and past relational experiences that shape how someone thinks, feels, and relates, which can be useful for issues like depression, relational difficulties, and longstanding patterns of behavior. Attachment-Based Therapy looks specifically at the ways attachment experiences from childhood affect trust, intimacy, and emotional regulation, helping people address relationship stress, abandonment concerns, and attachment-related wounds.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Regina works collaboratively with each person to identify the methods that best match their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the focus as therapy progresses so the work feels relevant and effective.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and communication styles. These options make it easier to access consistent support from licensed professionals and therapists without needing to travel, helping therapy fit into everyday life.