Martha Nyman

I am a professional and experienced psychotherapist and psychosexual therapist specialising in relationship and psychosexual issues. I trained at Tavistock Relationships and work with both couples and individuals. The therapy I practice provides a safe and confidential space to think about difficult issues and to resolve them through exploration, insight and discussion.

Many of us experience difficulties in our relationships and sex lives at some point during our lives and one may need support in changing a distressing or disappointing situation. Relationship and psychosexual therapy offers a space in which to discuss your relationship, in ways that may not be available in other areas of your life. It involves sensitively discussing the issues you bring to therapy, whilst at the same time exploring what lies behind them and what might be making it difficult to move beyond them. Psychosexual work involves addressing sexual issues for yourself and/or your relationship with a combination of a psychodynamic , systemic and behavioural approaches.

I am currently working as a Clinical Practitioner in London Borough of Barnet's in-house Clinical Service team in the Children and Young People's Service following 7 years in a similar role in Hackney and have experience working recently as a psychosexual therapist in the NHS Psychosexual Clinic at Homerton Hospital and at Tavistock Relationships.

I have extensive experience of working with couples and separated parents in conflict, particularly over their children. I have undertaken specialist training in Mentalization-Based Therapy which is a fixed-term therapeutic process which can help couples manage an conflictual situation.  As a Clinical Lecturer and Couple Therapist at Tavistock Relationships I was part of DofE funded Adopting Together project and the Parents as Partners team; having worked previously in their their Mentalization-Based Therapy for Couples in Conflict Service, the Divorce and Separation Consultation Service, the DWP-funded project for Parents in Dispute, the Couples 50+ project and more recently have been part of the Family Ties multi-family group and online support for separated parents with the Anna Freud Centre and Hackney CAMHS as well as working in the Family Trauma Team at the Anna Freud Centre itself. 

We meet for an initial session to discuss your situation and your hopes and expectations of therapy. If we decide that working together would be helpful, we will agree a regular time, when we will meet for 50 minutes every week.

In the initial session we can also discuss how the process of relationship or psychosexual therapy works, including the differences between fixed-term and open-ended working, and we will agree how to approach particular situations that may arise, such as only one partner being able to attend.