Luiza Neumayer

Hello and welcome

I’m here to help you find the inner strengths and resources you need to unblock what’s troubling you and move on with life. I’m a chartered psychologist, qualified in Jungian psycho-dynamic counselling and experiential psychotherapy, working with individuals and couples.

My clients tell me I’m warm and insightful – which is good, because my main aim is to offer a welcoming place where you feel it’s safe to open up. With every client, I believe it’s important to build a strong, trusting relationship so you feel willing and able to consider making changes. I am offering a safe space for reflection where healing takes place.

My way of working is relational, experiential and reflective. I give you the chance to work through difficult emotions and traumatic life experiences in a deeply personal way, with an experienced helping hand at your side as you grow stronger and heal.

Where to find me?

My office is based on 17 Nottingham Street, very close to Baker Street tube station or Marylebone train station. I also offer private counselling services online (via Zoom) and telephone – whatever works for you.

How did I get here?

Before training, I worked as the CEO of a charity for children diagnosed with terminal and critical illnesses. The therapeutic relationships I built with children and their parents helped me develop a great sense of patience, perseverance, compassion and belief in the human capacity to heal.

To help me help you, I’m immersed in my own therapy, as well as in continual professional development. My knowledge of many approaches keeps enhancing my expertise and experience. In turn, that means I understand how to help you with a wide range of difficulties, from anxiety, depression, communication and relationship issues to isolation, bereavement and loss or trauma.

My main teacher has been my attachment traumatic wound  - getting to know it, feeling and processing the pain and all other complicated and intense feelings related to it - with patience, awareness and compassion. Working with my own trauma helped me understand a lot about complex relational trauma and what it does to the body, heart and mind. 

Working with individuals

The process of psychotherapy can last for a few months, or continue for several years. It all depends on what you need. I take the time to get to know your personal circumstances and understand how you feel, so we can work together in the most effective way.

I offer counselling and psychotherapy to help with a wide range of issues:

Depression, including post-partum
Phobias (such as fear of flying, public speaking, enclosed spaces, insects and more)
Panic attacks
Anxiety
Addictions (alcohol, smoking, gambling)
Difficulty handling conflict
Communication and relationship issues
Sexuality
Feeling isolated
Bereavement and loss
Eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia, obesity)
Self-harm
Guilt and shame
Trauma
Attachment disorders (including developmental and pre-developmental trauma)
Psychosomatic disorders (which affect both your mental and physical health).

I am an AEDP and ISTDP Certified therapist, an EMDR Accredited therapist and Brainspotting certified therapist. I have also trained in Somatic Psychology.

I am training in IFS Therapy (Internal Family Systems; Level 1) and in DBR (Deep Brain Reorienting), a trauma focused approach developed by Dr Frank Corrigan.

I am also training to become a certified supervisor (CSTD London;The Centre for Supervision and Team Development), attending courses led by Joan Wilmot and Robin Shohet.

My essential mode of supervision is relational, integrative and experiential, inviting supervisees into a safe, creative space of reflexivity and contemplation. I use an eclectic approach, underpinned by Hawkins and Shohet's 7-eyed model, combining experiential ways of accessing therapeutic change, person-centered, attachment based therapeutic approaches, as well as body-focused approaches, emotion theories (regulation and healthy processing) and transformational studies.

I offer a limited number of low cost services to supervisees. 

With Couples

Being a partner in a contented couple takes love, courage, vulnerability and above all, communication.

I am a Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist with the International Centre for Clinical Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a type of couples counselling. It has been applied with great success to couples struggling with problems in their relationship. It helps you and your partner to create a secure bond, by showing you fresh ways of interacting with and relating to one another.

Research studies find that 70-75% of couples receiving EFT move from distress to recovery and approximately 90% show significant improvements.

I am also training in IFIO (Intimacy from Inside Out). This a model of couples therapy that draws primarily from the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model of psychotherapy, but also includes aspects of psychodynamic theory, systems thinking and neuroscience. It is an experiential model born out of a desire to carry the concepts of IFS into a relational setting and to use the intimate relationship itself as a vehicle for growth and healing of the individual, as well as the couple.

It is a non-pathologizing approach that helps people make sense of their life experience in a safe and collaborative way.

 ​Ongoing relationship counselling sessions last for 50 minutes.

I offer extended sessions - eg: double sessions or more for those who find weekly commitment difficult (children, job, out of London)

To find out how working with me could help you and your partner build a deeper, happier relationship, please get in touch.