Eduarda Mateus

Therapy can involve more than simply understanding our difficulties intellectually. It can help us develop a deeper relationship with our emotional experience, become more conscious of what shapes us from within, process limiting experiences and the beliefs associated with them, and discover new ways of being with ourselves and with others.

I am an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), a certified Emotion-Focused Therapist, EMDR Therapist and Clinical Supervisor. I offer counselling and psychotherapy to individual adults, both in person in my quiet consulting room in Edinburgh’s West End and online.

It is very human to experience difficult emotions and reactions at different points in life. What can be worth exploring is when these feelings linger long after an event, keep returning with an intensity that feels difficult to manage, or continue to interfere with your quality of life. Sometimes this can happen when an experience has not been fully processed, so that aspects of it remain emotionally active and easily triggered in the present.

Sometimes we know what has happened in our lives, but something continues to affect our wellbeing. At other times, nothing significant may seem to have happened, yet something does not feel quite right, or there is a sense that something needs to change.

Through Counselling, Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) and EMDR, I offer a confidential and non-judgemental space for deeper reflection and therapeutic exploration.

My Approach
My work integrates evidence-based approaches including Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), alongside counselling and psychotherapy.

I adapt the therapeutic process according to what is most appropriate for you and your therapeutic needs. Therapy can offer a space to understand what is happening within you, process experiences that may continue to affect you, and develop new and more adaptive ways of engaging and responding.

My role is not to give advice, but to facilitate access to your inner resources and work therapeutically with experiences that may not yet feel fully resolved. We work collaboratively, using the therapeutic approach most appropriate to your needs and at a pace that feels safe and manageable.

I assess and adapt the therapeutic process to what is needed to support meaningful transformation and lasting change.It is important to understand what may be underlying present difficulties and triggers without causing further distress. Simply revisiting distressing experiences can sometimes be unhelpful if there has not been careful assessment, trauma-informed therapeutic work and a considered plan for processing what continues to affect your wellbeing.

Counselling
A therapeutic and confidential space for understanding and self-discovery through dialogue

Counselling offers a confidential, supportive and non-judgemental space to explore what is happening in your life, develop greater self-awareness and confidence, and make sense of your experiences.

Emotion-Focused Therapy
Processing emotions to support deeper inner transformation and lasting change, through therapeutic dialogue

Emotion-Focused Therapy helps us understand, access and work with emotional experience, creating opportunities for emotional transformation and new ways of engaging and responding.

EMDR Therapy
Processing overwhelming experiences that continue to be deeply impactful, through bilateral stimulation

EMDR can help process deeply distressing experiences that may remain emotionally active, deeply unsettling or insufficiently resolved, including experiences that may be difficult to fully process through conversation alone. Through bilateral stimulation, EMDR offers an additional way of working therapeutically with these experiences, helping to reduce their emotional intensity and integrate them into our wider life story, so that we can relate to them differently and with greater freedom.

What You Can Expect
We work collaboratively, at your own pace, regularly reviewing the work and adjusting the focus where needed.

Therapy may be short-term or longer-term, with regular and collaborative reviews.

I offer an initial complimentary 30-minute consultation, providing an opportunity to talk about what you are experiencing, ask questions and consider whether working together feels like a good fit.

There is no obligation to begin therapy.

I offer a limited number of concessionary spaces for clients who would otherwise be unable to access private therapy.

On Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays I see clients in person and online, and my last session ends at 5:15pm.