Martina Klich

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Psychotherapy, at its heart, is the regular process of one person meeting another, and listening closely to their thoughts and concerns. Thinking, in this sense, is not the same as brooding — that rigid, anxious preoccupation many of us know too well. It means I will pay close attention to what you desire and what you dread. It means noticing when you are behaving passively or inconsistently and giving yourself the time to feel your emotions fully, so that you can respond to them with more care and consideration.

Our work together will help you to think about the feelings you have about yourself and other people: particularly family, friends and colleagues. I will help you to face issues and causes - often from long ago - which may be weighing on you or unknowingly affecting your relationship with yourself and others.

Therapy is sometimes dismissed as a paid-for friendship, but it offers something different. Friendship carries a mutuality — sparing someone's feelings, mirroring them back — that therapy may need to set aside. It is, at the same time, an active process. I can help foster your thinking, but I cannot do it for you; we do that work together. This work comes into its own when you are genuinely trying to work something out — when you feel perplexed about your own mind, or about the people closest to you.

My approach is thoughtful, unhurried, and deeply personal. Whether you are struggling with anxiety, depression, loss, relationship difficulties, or something you find hard to name, therapy offers a space to think freely, feel more fully, and begin to change.

Through our work together, you might find yourself in conversation about the choices you've made, and the vulnerabilities you've quietly avoided. Therapy doesn't simply ease a difficult feeling or symptom — it invites you to look closely at your values, your sense of self, and the assumptions you carry. It asks you to think about your life in a way that few other conversations allow.

Experience:

In addition to my private practice, I work at St Pancras Hospital (North London NHS Trust) in the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Unit.

Accreditation:

British Psychoanalytic Council

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists

Training:

Inter-cultural Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London

Foundation course and Post Foundation course, Institute of Psychoanalysis, London

I offer clients a free 15 minute phone call before booking a consultation. This is not a session, but it allows me to answer any questions you may have.

We will then agree on a day and time to meet for a preliminary consultation, which may take up to three sessions. Each session lasts 50 minutes; it is an opportunity for us to explore the reasons that have brought you to therapy and provide you with a sense of how I work. 

Once the consultation sessions are over, we will discuss the best course of treatment for you. If we agree to work together, it is usual for sessions to be at a regular day and time every week and last 50 minutes. We will agree on a session fee.