About me
Welcome to my profile
I’m Marta Sandri, an MBACP somatic therapist and integrative counsellor with somatic, trauma‑informed specialised training.
I offer 1:1 somatic counselling for adults, online and in person.
Life can start to feel like it’s happening too fast: your mind racing, your body tense, emotions either flooding or shutting down. When that’s the case, counselling can become a place where you get to exhale.
A space where you don’t have to “perform being okay”, and where we can go at a pace that respects your nervous system, your history, and your capacity, creating a ground for constructive change.
How I can support you
I support adults navigating a range of concerns, including:
Anxiety, stress and overwhelm
Burnout and nervous system dysregulation
Trauma and trauma responses (including childhood experiences)
Repeating relationship patterns
Life transitions and uncertainty
Relocation, expat identity shifts, and living between cultures
Questions of meaning, direction, identity and purpose
Overthinking, people-pleasing, hypervigilance, emotional numbness, cycles of self-doubt.
My approach
My work is rooted in ethical professional standards and clear boundaries, including confidentiality, safeguarding, GDPR, and ongoing supervision. I have 250+ hours of supervised clinical practice and continue to work with supervision as part of my commitment to safe, ethical therapy.
My approach is integrative, which means we can blend talking therapy with body-based, nervous-system informed work, creative arts therapies, systemic and transpersonal psychology.
What you might gain
Over time, our work can support you to build a stronger inner ground and centre, including:
More emotional steadiness and less reactivity
Tools to regulate anxiety and stress in real time
A clearer sense of boundaries, needs and self-trust
Greater resilience in relationships and transitions
A feeling of coming home to yourself, with choices that match who you are now
My practice
Sessions are available online and in person, in English and Italian.
If you’re curious, you’re welcome to reach out. The first step is simply finding a space where you feel met.
Training, qualifications & experience
I bring over 5 years’ experience working 1:1 and in group settings with clients, including in clinical settings within the NHS..
- Degree in Systemic Transpersonal Counselling (MBACP)
- Training in Somatic Therapy for Complex PTSD (CPTSD)
- Family Constellations training (AICFS)
- Reiki Usui Levels 1–2
- FdA Creative Arts Therapies
- Health and Wellbeing Coaching training
- Yoga Alliance registered Yoga Teacher Training (YTTC)
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
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Fees
£55.00 - £75.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
My fees are offered on a sliding scale to support accessibility.
You’re welcome to choose the rate that best reflects your income and current circumstances, so counselling can feel affordable while also sustaining the work.
Pricing plans are also available for those who prefer to spread payments over time.
When I work
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Further information
My Counselling and Coaching Values and Approach
Why counselling?
Because sometimes you don’t need more dwelling on the past, but rather a kind of support that helps you look in the present and forward.
Counselling helps you build inner resources, so you can meet life with more steadiness, clarity, and self-trust within yourself.
It’s solution-focused, but not surface-level.
We go deep, to understand the root of what’s happening, so you’re not just “managing” your emotions,
you’re actually transforming the pattern underneath them at its core.
Why somatic, systemic, and transpersonal?
Because you are not only a thinking mind.
You are a body, a history, a nervous system, a heart… and a whole inner world.
When you’ve been through stress, trauma, burnout, or long periods of “pushing through”, talking can help,
but it’s often not the key to release the challenge at the root.
This work brings in the layers where deep shift happens.
Somatic: the body tells the truth
Your body holds what you’ve had to carry, even when your mind is trying to stay strong and functional.
A somatic approach helps us listen to sensation, breath, emotion, and the subtle signals you may have learned to ignore.
Patterns don’t live only in thoughts: they live in posture, tension, collapse, hypervigilance, numbness, and overwhelm.
When the body is included, what felt unconscious starts to become clear.
And from that clarity and saftey, we can create movement.
Systemic: you are part of a wider story
You didn’t become who you are in isolation.
Systemic work (including Family Constellations) reminds us that we are shaped by a web of visible and invisible connections: family, culture, belonging, loyalty, roles we inherited, roles we learned.
Some of what you’re living isn’t “wrong with you.”
It may be something you adapted to, to stay connected, safe, or needed.
In sessions, we explore these dynamics, so stuck patterns can soften and a new inner position can emerge, more grounded, more free and more you.
Nervous system: your central operating system
Somatic work supports your base layer: the nervous system.
Emotions are not just “in your head.”
They are biochemical waves moving through the body, constantly shaping how you think, relate, decide, and cope.
When your system has been under pressure for a long time, it makes sense that you might feel: on edge, shut down, reactive, exhausted or stuck in loops you can’t think your way out of.
Through somatic, emotional, and transpersonal tools, we create new pathways for feeling, thinking, and relating in a way that your system can learn that safety is the new normal, not just survive.
