Isabel Martins

I am qualified as an Integrative Person Centred Counsellor, and it is a non-judgemental and non-directive approach. Counselling provides an opportunity for you to look at issues in your life that are causing you concern, and to explore ways in which brings a positive change. As a client, you are responsible for your choices and decisions you make, although as your counsellor, I will support and encourage you as you make choices and decisions which you feel are in your best interest.

As a BACP registered Counsellor, I am bound by its Ethical Framework for Good Practice, and my priority is to provide well-being and good practice as a counsellor and to keep the client’s best interest.

I work as a counsellor with adolescents with mental health and emotional issues and has always been an inspiration, where I believe, counselling can provide support to the young people in need and help them to overcome any apprehensions that may occur.

I have experience in counselling adults in a clinical setting who are feeling distressed, where mental health issues arise when a difficult circumstance of their lives happens.

I have experience in working with clients who recovering from alcohol and substances addictions.

Psychotherapeutic Counsellor and Clinical Supervisor

I qualified as an integrative Person Centred Counsellor, and I also hold a Level 5 in Psychotherapy Counselling and am a BACP registered counsellor. Its Ethical Framework compels me to adhere to Good Practice. In addition, I am a graduate member of the BPS owing to my Educational Psychology diploma, which I have held since 2001.

I hold a Level 7, KRCS Advanced Diploma in Counselling Supervision, which is accredited by the National Council of Integrative Psychotherapists which makes myself as a Registered and Accredited Clinical Supervisor.

I have worked in different contexts, including with clients addicted to alcohol and substance abuse, and to support parents and young people. I also set up my private practice, where I work with adults and young people. In addition, I worked at Family Intervention and Social Support as a youth counsellor. Currently, I am a school counsellor at a special needs school. I implemented the counselling service, and I offer supervision to staff.

Supervision is a joint endeavour in which a counsellor with the help of a supervisor, attends to their clients, themselves as part of their client practitioner relationships and the wider systemic context, and by doing so improves the quality of their work, transforms their client relationships, continuously develops themselves, their practice, and the wider profession.

My aim is to provide well-being and good practice as a supervisor, uphold the client's best interests, and a safe and confidential space to reflect and explore any concerns that may arise during supervision.