Tania Gadoti Gallindo MBACP registered counsellor

About me

I work with individuals from all walks of life, offering short & long term psychotherapeutic counselling. I also offer bilingual therapy in Portuguese. If you would like to book an initial session with me, email me your details specifying the days and times you would like to book a session and I will promptly reply to your email.

This is an opportunity for you to express any feelings and emotions that have been bottled up, such as anger, low self-esteem, grief, fear and shame and so on. I am a counsellor who uses a holistic approach to therapy, which means I explore the wider context of your life, such as your social, cultural, sexual, and spiritual backgrounds. I have trained as a psychosynthesis counsellor, and in such a psychotherapeutic approach you are seen beyond the symptoms you bring, which means I don’t pathologise you. Actually, I welcome your symptom as a venue for your growth as a human being.

Be it anxiety, panic disorder, depression, or low self esteem and lack of direction, together we can explore and change it.

When you explore your symptoms, inevitably you learn more about yourself, where you are heading, where you really want to go, what are the things that might have to change along the way, and why often you procrastinate and sabotage yourself.

Ways I might work with you

I will listen to you attentively, and not only to your words but your body's gesture, your facial expression, the energy around you, sensations, emotions, and your silences. I will reflect back to you what I see, and in this exchange you learn to reflect on your own experiences, thoughts and feelings.

I will creatively listen to what you have to say and adapt my interventions to create a therapeutic approach that is suitable and effective for you. We are all so diverse, and I honour and welcome your uniqueness, independently of how anxious, depressed, fearful or how low you might feel right now.

I also draw from a variety of techniques such as mindfulness, gestalt, guided meditation, role playing, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), drawing, dream work and guided imagery, which I will use accordingly to your needs and comfort. The use of these techniques will follow a rationale, which means they will be used to help you to gain more clarity around a subject you feel stuck, for example. These creative techniques also bring to light unconscious processes, which is an important part of understanding yourself.

My job ultimately is to guide you back to yourself, to find you are immensely resourceful, and I can do it in a warm, real and gentle way. I can also challenge you in a compassionate way, if I feel it will contribute to your growth. I aim to help you to get more clarity on the issue(s) you bring, increasing your awareness over your choices, and therefore creating transformation in your life.

For a more extensive list of issues I work with, see the list further below.