About me
Hello and welcome to my profile.
I am an integrative psychotherapist/psychodramatist, which means I work using theories from several fields of psychotherapy including psychodynamic, person-centred, gestalt and transactional analysis theories. I am a couples therapist and have completed a training in “The Developmental Model of Couples Therapy.”
My model of working is varied and flexible, based on the values of creativity and appropriate spontaneity, underpinned by psychodynamic, systemic and existentialist thinking.
My aim is to establish a warm, collaborative, supportive, working relationship with you by helping you to explore what has brought you to therapy and how your earlier life experiences and relationships may have affected you in the present, preventing you to fully access your creativity and spontaneity, all your strengths in order to live a fulfilled and balanced life.
Madalina is highly accomplished psychotherapist with over 17 years experience helping individuals and couples overcoming wide range of difficulties.
I hold a passion for enabling clients to identify and utilise their inner capacity to positively change the problematic aspects of their lives. I help clients identify problem thinking and behaviour, which contributes to personal blocks and relationship problems. I can show you how to implement effective strategies, which can result in improved personal wellbeing and fulfilment, the confidence to identify and achieve your life goals, the ability to enjoy better communication and understanding in relationships and how to build a stronger capacity to manage challenging life situations.
I help both individuals and couples to address a wide range of issues including:relationship issues, stress, anxiety, depression, social confidence, self-confidence, career and life change, feeling stuck and directionless, identity issues and/or negative self-image, sexuality, life changes, PTSD, trauma, abuse, sexual abuse, bereavement and loss, fertility, antenatal and postnatal difficulties, eating disorders, alcohol and drug abuse/dependence, bi-polar disorder, borderline personality disorder, personality disorder, forensic, spirituality.
I have developed my clinical expertise in a range of settings including: private practice, NHS hospital outpatients and psychiatric inpatients, day centres, and therapeutic communities and residential drug and alcohol centres.
I have designed and run several workshops on a variety of personal development issues including: Social/interpersonal skills development, managing difficult people, manage work relationships, stress management, anger management, team building, eating disorder, alcohol and drug rehabilitation. I have trained staff in a range of settings on management of trauma, abuse, addiction, eating disorder and relapse prevention.
I am a qualified psychotherapist and hold a Diploma in Individual and Group Psychodrama psychotherapy, a BSc (Hons) in Psychology with Sociology. I am a registered member of the UKCP and BPA.
My therapeutic approach is a proactive and interactive integrative psychotherapy, which draws upon and informs a range of therapeutic models including: CBT, psychodynamic, systemic, person centred, transactional analysis, gestalt, existential and coaching approaches.
Training, qualifications & experience
UKCP, BACP, BPA accredited group and individual integrative psychotherapist.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£135.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
The fee for group integrative psychotherapy is £65.
The fee for individual psychotherapy is £100.
Please contact me as soon as possible to let me know if you would like to cancel an appointment. Regrettably, cancellations with less than 48 hours’ notice before the appointment or non-attended appointments without any prior notice are charged at the full price.
If your choice of contacting me is via phone, please know that hidden numbers will not be answered.
Further information
Integrative psychotherapy works because it gets people moving, talking, and involved in their treatment.
It assists individuals to:
- re-examine their current life situations, their past, their social networks and cultural context
- generate new perspectives on particular events or situations
- develop fresh responses to entrenched relationship dynamics
- prepare for future situations in which they wish to function with a greater degree of flexibility, vitality and immediacy
- bring together action, insight and 'here and now' experience as they engage with life
- enlarge perceptions of themselves and others
It assists groups to:
- examine themselves and constructively work through the dynamics of group life
- recognize patterns of interaction and interpersonal dynamics
- investigate both the formal and informal relationship
- networks and recognize their collective functioning and make informed decisions about changing group norms.
Here are 12 reasons psychodynamic psychotherapy (psychodrama) works.
1. Teaches Problem Solving
Acting out future or past situations with others can help you solve problems together. You will have the opportunity to help other people answer questions beyond your own.
2. Opens Perspective on Situations
We all see the world differently. When you experience a situation together, everyone is going to have a different story to tell. A fresh view might be the one thing you need to understand parts of your life.
3. Prepares for Future Settings
Acting out scenarios is a way to prepare you for future situations by providing the tools needed to successfully conquer it.
4. Makes it Easier to Discuss the Past
I often wonder how I could ever explain my past. There are so many layers to my story that words are not always enough. Psychodrama therapy goes beyond words. It allows you to share the past in an entirely different way, and that makes it so much easier.
5. Allows You to Re-examine the Past
The past can be painful, but we often have to return to it to move forward in life. Re-examining the past can be a healing experience that will open your eyes to a different view.
6. Creates Several Scenarios for Present Choices
In the early years of therapy, I often asked myself, “What now?” and “Where do I go from here?” You can take your questions to psychodrama therapy, and everyone can act out several scenarios. As you watch the situations played out in front of you, you can decide what to do next.
7. Boosts Self-Esteem
Recovering from an addiction means starting over. You struggle to put the pieces of your life back together, and self-esteem is often the first thing to go. Working with others, building relationships, and healing wounds are ways psychodrama therapy repairs damaged self-esteem.
8. Gets Patients Involved in Their Own Therapy
You literally get to work through your problems and struggles; you are in control of the story.
9. Creates a Safe Environment to Work through Problems
Psychodrama therapy is a safe place to express yourself through movement, words, and emotions. At first it will feel awkward, but as you watch others perform, you will begin to get comfortable with who you are and who the people are around you.
10. Connects People Together
Life experiences bond humans together, and performing situations is a way to create memories.
11. Helps Patients Understand Each other on a Deeper Level
When someone shares a story with you, you imagine it in your mind, but what if you could live it? As you act out the parts of someone else’s life, you get to see how it played out.
12. Is an Entertaining Way to Bring Experiences to Life
Psychodrama therapy is fun. It gets your body moving, your emotions flowing, and your brain working hard. You will cry, laugh, and feel angry, and at the end you will be happy you came. You will look forward to the days you get to act, develop friendships, and answer life questions in a creative way. Psychodrama therapy is a way to heal, feel, and grow as an individual.
Integrative psychotherapy a can be a powerful experience. Because it is an active, “real-time” therapy, psychodrama can be an empowering alternative to traditional talk therapy.
It can help people:
- Improve their relationships and communication skills
- Overcome grief and loss
- Restore confidence and well-being
- Enhance learning and life skills
- Express their feelings in a safe, supportive environment
- Experiment with new ways of thinking and behaving
