Welcome to Martha Scanlan Therapy
Deciding to find support with problems is the first step to change. My aim is to provide clients with a confidential, emotionally safe and supportive environment in which people can feel at ease exploring their life and any difficulties they are experiencing.
Therapy is a journey in which participants agree to work together by listening, experiencing feelings and exploring life encounters. Only by taking this journey can people find more positive ways of managing life and finding happiness.
Relationships are dynamic and require work to remain healthy. We don’t always know how to manage them and deciding to reach out and find professional help will give you the necessary tools to manage emotions and patterns of being and understanding.
I offer therapy online as well as face to face in my private practice in East Grinstead. Therapy could be short or long-term depending on the difficulties presented.
Why work with me ?
I am professional but warm in approach and I will listen to you, non- judgmentally and hold your feelings in the highest regard.
I offer couple, individual, family and teenage counselling. I am qualified to work with psychosexual therapy and Supervision.
I am a fully qualified Relate trained therapist. I have over 30 years of experience providing therapy in diverse issues for couples, individuals, families and teenagers. I am also qualified to work in psychosexual therapy with expertise in sexual addiction. I have worked extensively with teenagers that experience problems relating to self-harm and anxiety issues. I am also able to provide therapeutic help to adults, couples and teenagers (over the age of 12) on the autistic spectrum and Aspergers.
I also offer supervision to trainees and fully qualified counsellors and psychosexual therapists.
I am a fluent speaker in Spanish and am able to offer therapeutic services in both English and Spanish.
Professional qualifications & experience
I am an accredited member of (COSRT) College of Psychosexual Therapists and a member of the (BACP) British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
The training I have undergone has been with Relate, University College London and The Family institute.
• Dr Clinical Psychology
• Accredited member of COSRT
• Member of BACP
• PGDIP/MA in Couple and Individual therapy. Relate and University College London
• Dip in Psychosexual therapy COSRT and Relate
• Post grad Dip in Systemic Practice
• Cert in Counselling young people. Youth Access
• Dip in Individual and Group supervision for Counsellors and Psychotherapists
• Numerous CPD working with sexual addiction
• Dip in Couples and individuals in the autistic spectrum
• Enhanced DBS certificate.
I adhere to the COSRT and BACP code of ethics and my work is supervised monthly. I continue my professional training and development by attending CPD courses on a regular basis.
Languages
I offer counselling in Spanish.
Counselling Services
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Supervision
I have experience of working as a therapist in many modalities as outlined above. This has given me the ability to understand the therapeutic endeavor through many lenses.
I work with different theoretical approaches depending on the case. I use systemic, psychodynamic, transactional analysis, behavioural and person-centered approach. I can supervise individual practitioners and provide group supervision.
My role as a supervisor is to help practitioners learn or use different lenses to view cases or difficulties presented in their clinical work. These discussions take place in an environment of mutual respect, care and professionalism.
Where to Start?
I work at my private office in East Grinstead. I offer sessions either on zoom or face to face. The sessions will last one hour. To begin with I have an initial session in which clients and I decide the course of therapy that may be required to follow and agreement about the number of sessions that can be undertaken.