Mel Green

I am available on

Friday afternoon

I am an Integrative counsellor and have completed my training at Regents University and The Minster Centre. I have experienced my own transformative experience of therapy, this informs my practice as I have an appreciation of therapy as both challenging and rewarding.  Prior to training as a counsellor, I have worked in the NHS for 18 years as a nurse and most recently as a specialist nurse with young children and their parents and carers. I have experience in working with families in their transition to parenthood and in supporting families with young children and teenagers with stressful life events. I have an interest in supporting people with bereavements and life-limiting illnesses affecting them or family members. I work with clients in different life stages and from different backgrounds. I offer affirmative and compassionate counselling to the LGBTQ+ community. My work is a trauma-informed approach, which means I am aware of the ways trauma can impact our holistic health. In counselling sessions, we will remain curious about how you are feeling in your body as well as your mind.

My Integrative approach incorporates various ways of working. One way is to explore our experiences of relationships as children, which can support your understanding of yourself in relationships with others. Alongside this, my practice also has a  philosophical approach that examines how we make meaning in our lives and acknowledges the struggles and joy this can create. 

My counselling offers a compassionate private space where you will be listened to carefully and met with kind curiosity and compassion. Counselling is not a one approach fits all process, it is a unique experience that I as your counsellor gives careful attention to. I will work to get to know you and to support you to tune into your own feelings and explore what they may mean for you. Sometimes in life, we do not have the space to listen to ourselves and this can be a powerful place to start. An important part of the therapy is the therapeutic relationship that develops between us, paying attention to how it feels to be seen and heard in counselling can inform the way we are in other relationships.  

Counselling can help support you through difficult times or can be a space where you emotionally refuel yourself. Often in therapy a combination of current life events, past circumstances, and feelings about the future are explored. By doing this we can make sense of how these different jigsaw pieces fit together. 

A chance to explore what is commonly accepted

Sometimes we have beliefs, expectations, and values about ourselves and others stemming from our families, communities, societal structures, and our experiences within them. Counselling offers a space for reexamining how you feel about social norms and expectations.

I want you to find the right therapist for you, when you contact me, I will get back to you within 24 hours. We will schedule a phone call so that I can get an understanding of what you need from counselling, and we can get an idea of if we might work well together.

Your counselling sessions will be weekly at the same time (on the hour) and last for 50 minutes. Payment for each session is in advance and payable by bank transfer.

Once we decide to work together, I will share with you my counselling contract that details my data storage arrangements, confidentiality agreement and cancellation and holiday policy. 

In-person and Online availability 

Monday - Friday 8-7

Hello and welcome!

I am Mel, an experienced Integrative Counsellor registered with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy. I offer a confidential and compassionate space where you will be listened to attentively and met with kind curiosity and care.

Underpinning my therapy practice is my value of and engagement with the ethical standards set by the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and the United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy, for which I hold membership.

I support myself in my therapeutic endeavours with weekly supervision and my own individual therapeutic process. I continue to develop as a therapist and am completing my MA with an original research thesis on complex bereavement.

 As an Integrative Counsellor, I use my expertise and skill in various psychotherapeutic traditions to explore and support you with your difficulties. I give thoughtful attention to your individuality and tailor the therapy to benefit you as much as possible.

My practice also has a philosophical expression that explores how we make meaning in our lives and acknowledges the struggles and joy this can create. In my work with clients, I also offer alternative ways of interacting with their own distress and loss.

Training and Experience

Health Practitioner Experience

I am an experienced registered nurse and health visitor and, as such, have vast experience working with all age groups with both short and long-term physical and mental health needs. I specialised in mental health for parents of young children.

I have worked extensively with older adolescents who have emotional difficulties(15 years of age and above)

Psychotherapy Experience

I trained to be a Psychotherapist at The Minster Centre in London, a pioneering and well-respected College (The Minster Centre). Alongside my private therapy practice, I have worked as a therapist for independent charities and an NHS service at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust London.

One of my intentions with clients is to shine a light on aspects of themselves, their lives and relationships that are unclear, messy, or difficult. I often think with clients about the different parts of themselves, how these interact and the impact this has on the whole of them. This can enable helpful reflection of their relationship with themselves and others in the past and present. Learning about ourselves is key to changing areas of our lives that we are unhappy or dissatisfied with.

My clients have found exploring their social and cultural contexts and experiences helpful.  Our culture, heritage and social context can bring us joy and difficulties. I understand that discrimination of all kinds impacts many people, and this impacts holistic health. I endeavour not to be an expert in your experience but to attune and contain any discomfort or distress you share with me.

Special Interests and experience

I work with clients with a wide range of experiences and concerns; some of the specialities I work with are:

- Parental emotional wellbeing

- Rainbow Families

- Bullying

- Survivors of narcissistic parents

- Adverse childhood experiences

- Anxiety and depression

- Bereavements and loss of all kinds

- Exploration of sexuality

- Exploration of gender

- Death and Dying

- Disability

- Consensual Sex and relationships of all kinds

- GSRD therapy (gender, sexual and relationship diversity)

I am an affirmative therapist to people in their diverse experiences of gender, sexuality, and relationship styles.

Trauma Informed Care

I work in a trauma-informed way, which means I am aware of the ways trauma can impact our holistic health. In counselling sessions, I will remain curious about how you feel in your body and mind.

When you contact me, I will get back to you within 24 hours (48 hours if at the weekend). We can schedule a free 15-30-minute phone call or video call so that you can ask me questions about how I work. 

Your counselling sessions will be weekly at the same time (on the hour) and last for 50 minutes. Payment for each session is in advance and payable by bank transfer.

Once we decide to work together, I will share with you my counselling contract that details my data storage arrangements, confidentiality agreement and cancellation and holiday policy.