Margareta Mayhew-Pilaar

I am currently available for in person and online therapy as a counsellor, psychotherapist and EMDR practitioner. 

My practice is based in Battle, East Sussex, England as well as worldwide online.

I have extensive experience as an Integrative counsellor, Psychotherapist and EMDR practitioner as well as Supervisor.

I have a private counselling practice in East Sussex for adults and couples. I work part time as a counselling manager for Sara Lee Trust Charity with people with life-threatening illnesses.

I offer a friendly and down-to-earth approach to counselling in person and online using Zoom within a warm and non judgemental environment to support you in exploring and understanding the issues you are struggling with. 

My aim is to empower you and not to fix you! I offer sound listening ear, hope, realness, warmth, empathy and a place for you to share and work through painful emotions such as fear, anxiety, guilt, shame, regret and traumatic experiences. I use my training , expertise and can apply EMDR (Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) treatment.

I have a genuine commitment for your wellbeing and the sincere love for my work will help you to develop emotional awareness creating better understanding and working towards acceptance and healing.

My website is www.margaretacounselling.com. 

I offer short and longer term work dependent upon the needs of individuals and couples.

As an integrative counsellor I use a blend of other approaches and practices. For example, using TA (Transactional Analysis) which helps you to understand how to communicate and relate with yourself and others such as listening to your inner child voice.

My approach is working with the whole person meaning mind, body and emotions. My educational background started with working as a general and mental health nurse, MSc in Health Clinical Psychology, Fitness and massage business, counselling diploma in person and online and supervisor as well as EMDR practitioner. I worked within various charity settings, school environment and health sector that helped me to widen my perceptive on life as a whole and become more receptive and reflective.

My fee is £60.00 for a 1 hour session. We can contract for a specific number of sessions or work in an open-ended way.

I begin all my counselling work with a free initial session for 30 minutes via telephone or zoom, at which point we can jointly decide if therapy with me is the right course of action for you.

In an initial session you can share your needs and we can explore what will be most helpful for you. My aim is to help you develop your capacity to cope and move on from your distressing feelings, thoughts and actions.

I provide online and in-person supervision on a one-one basis as well as in group setting for counsellors, psychotherapist and health professionals.

I provide an online and in-person supervision for qualified and trainee counsellors, for psychotherapists  and health professionals on a 1-1 basis and/or in a group setting. I endeavour to provide a supportive confidential space where you can explore and reflect upon your client’s work, take some time out for yourself, and feel listened to without judgment.

My supervision is an ethical joint approach ensuring you to develop and to grow personally and professionally that will enhance your confidence and support your client’s wellbeing.

I believe my role as a supervisor is facilitating and equipping your work by assisting, encouraging, and empowering you. I support you in your therapeutical relationship with your clients, your knowledge and expertise, so that you gain better understanding into personal or professional aspects such as boundaries, parallel process, ruptures and challenging you when necessary. I enjoy helping you to deepen an understanding of your orientation and how to align it to your unique skills base.

Supervision is a quest for self-awareness and self-understanding our effective reflective practice. This process is working collaboratively and to provide an environment based upon mutual trust, respect & transparency.

I am a qualified supervisor Online and In-person. Currently I offer supervision for supervise working in Palliative care & Hospice work as well as in private practice.  My therapeutic framework is based on integrative approaches; person-centred, gestalt, transactional analysis and solution-focused, underpinned with psychological, complementary, and medical understanding and knowledge. As a therapist I work with adults, couples and families and value diversity and different cultures.

Throughout my career I am and have benefited from some amazing support from supervisors and it’s my endeavour to deliver the same in return.

My way of working as a supervisor can be in person and online via Zoom using video, audio, and Live-Chat and encrypted email exchange. If working as an online therapist, it is essential that at least some of your personal supervision is conducted using the same methods of communication.

I will support you on a regular basis:

• to listen, to reflect, to explore, to challenge about your client’s work

• to support you in risk and safeguarding aspects of your clients

• to enrich and empower you in your professional and personal wellbeing and development 

I offer a free, 30-minute supervision session via zoom for us to get to know each other and to assess if we are comfortable working together. We will assess together the purpose of our supervision and once we established, we want to develop our supervision relationship I will email you my contractual agreement.

Supervision sessions vary from 1 to 1.5 hours and their frequency will depend upon your level of experience and your clinical case load, all of which we can discuss in our first meeting together.