Regina Martins, HCPC, BACP

Regina Martins is a UK-based counsellor psychologist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and a psychodynamic counsellor accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She originally completed a degree in Psychology in Brazil before training in Psychodynamic Counselling in the United Kingdom, and she also spent a year studying Trauma and Psychoanalysis at the Tavistock Clinic. The HCPC and BACP registrations indicate professional standing within UK regulatory and professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy.

She brings extensive experience working with adults and older adults across educational, community and health settings, including provision of both long-term and short-term psychotherapy in diverse London boroughs. Regina has a particular interest in supporting expatriates and people from different cultural backgrounds, and she offers therapy in English and Portuguese. Her clinical focus includes issues such as stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, addictions, grief, eating and sleeping concerns, parenting challenges and mood disorders among other areas.

Regina’s therapeutic approach is rooted in psychoanalytic ideas and object relations, with attention to how past and present experiences, attachment patterns and relational traumas shape current ways of being. She pays close attention to repetitive behaviours and relational dynamics that often originate in childhood and family relationships, and uses attachment-based, client-centered and psychodynamic methods to explore those patterns. Regina aims to create a warm and respectful space where difficulties can be examined, unhelpful patterns can be changed and clients can work toward a more satisfying way of living. She invites prospective clients to consider therapy as a collaborative process of exploration and change.