Maria-Alda Gomez

I have two slots available online or in Teignmouth:

Fridays at 11:30am

Tuesdays at 4pm

I will work online most of the month of April, two weeks in July, and one week in December due to personal commitments.

Do you always feel like you don’t belong, as if something was wrong with you? You are not the only one. I help those who feel like outsiders, like they don't fit it, and no one gets them to find acceptance in being unique, and embrace their difference.

With over 15 years of experience working with diverse clients and helping them release the emotional charge of their traumatic past, I can help you create a life that aligns with you true purpose. I normally work with sensitive, creative people who are ready to face their fears and turn their lives around.

I work in a very unique way combining the following approaches:

1. Energy techniques, such as Emotional Freedom Techniques (also called tapping), chakra clearing, and breathwork

2. Creativity, using metaphor, miniatures, cards, stories, scarfs, and anything that appears in my creative drawers.

3. Embodiment, after years leading tai chi and qigong groups, with increased body awareness, and acknowledging the importance of having an embodied experience to release trauma.

4. IFS-inspired parts work, searching to create more harmony among the different internal parts, including active imagination.

If any of you resonates with you, I will be delighted to have a brief 15 minute Zoom talk to see if we are a good fit to work together.

I am multilingual, offering therapy in English, Spanish, and French.

To ensure our work is as unique as you are, I could use distance muscle testing (kinesiology) to guide and monitor our sessions.

Some of the techniques I use might awake your curiosity, and also perhaps your internal critic. They are not common in traditional settings. As a former skeptic myself, I completely understand that reaction. My confidence in these methods is firmly rooted in my deep personal transformation and years of professional experience witnessing their impact. 

I'm talking about gentle, body-based techniques that use meridian tapping and energy centers for deep trauma resolution. By addressing the emotional charge held in the body, we can stop the loop of being constantly triggered in the present.

These traumas include, but are not limited to:

• Childhood traumas
• Birth traumas
• Inherited traumas
• Transpersonal traumas
• Relational and attachment traumas

Having personally witnessed and experienced the incredible power of these energy psychology techniques, I feel confident offering them to you to help in your transformation. If any of this resonates with you, reach out. I will be happy to have a brief talk to see if my approach is what you are looking for.

During the first session, you will have an opportunity to get to know me a little bit, to experience how I work, and to know what to expect for the rest of your therapy journey. Regular reviews of our work together will be offered.

Supervision in Exeter and Online.

On holiday between 30th March and 5th April.

Taking a break between 29th June and 5th July.

On holiday from 25th September and 18th October.

Are you stuck in your work?

Do you find yourself holding back some of your knowledge because you don't know how to integrate it in your mainstream counselling and psychotherapy practice? All of those trainings in Reiki, shamanism, EFT tapping, energy healing. You would like to find a way to bring them in, but how? Perhaps you’re having transpersonal experiences in your practice with no one to share them with.

I've been there, having a split between a talking therapist and a tai chi instructor. Now, I combine energy work into my practice in an easy and ethically sound way. 

I offer creative, embodied, transpersonal supervision for therapists who wish to be supported in their own transition towards more professional integration.

Creative supervision invites you to step back, look at your practice from a new perspective and gain deeper insights. Both your body and your client's body hold wisdom, if we know how to ask and listen. Tapping into this can bring powerful shifts in your professional life. It brings opportunities for you to achieve your full potential.

With over 15 years of experience as a psychotherapist, I combine everything I’ve learned and experienced to create meaningful opportunities for your professional growth. 

If you use EFT (tapping), chakra clearing, shamanism or any other spiritual or energy modalities and wish to combine them with your therapeutic practice, reach out. 

I hold a Master in Psychotherapy, a Diploma in Practising Energy Psychotherapy, and I am in the last stages of receiving a Diploma in Supervision.

What to Expect in Supervision

Supervision with me is not a list of tasks to tick but a relational process. Depending on what feels appropriate to you, our sessions may include:

• Creative tools like visualisation, metaphor, drawing, or movement
• Embodied awareness and body process
• Working with parts
• Exploration of energy psychology tools or other practices.

The end goal of supervision will be to facilitate you coming into deeper contact with your wisdom for the benefit of your clients.

Who I Work With

I welcome a wide variety of supervisees and therapists from all walks of life, but I find that I particularly connect with:

• Highly sensitive, spiritual or creative therapists
• Counsellors and psychotherapists integrating energy healing or body process
• Practitioners who feel “different” or marginalised in their work settings
• Therapists navigating burnout, compassion fatigue, or difficult client work
• Trainees and early-career therapists seeking a reflective and empowering space

You don’t need to be using energy tools to work with me, but if you do, I’ll support you in integrating them ethically and confidently into your therapeutic framework.

Why Choose Creative Supervision?

Creative supervision can offer something different:

• It reawakens your curiosity and sense of possibility
• It bypasses cognitive loops, opening access to deeper understanding
• It can reconnect you with your original passion for the work
• It often helps prevent burnout by providing restoration and perspective

If you’re feeling a little lost, drained, or disconnected in your work, creative supervision may be what helps you find your way back to your centre.

Currently, I am in the last stages of receiving a Diploma in Supervision from the Gestalt Centre in London.

If any of this resonates with you, I’d love to hear from you.

Please feel free to contact me to arrange a free 15 minute Zoom call to see if we are a good fit. I have spaces available for supervision in Exeter or online.

I will be offering Introduction to EFT tapping for counsellors and psychotherapists soon. Reach out to confirm your interest, and be added to the mailing list (exclusively for these events).

Other events that will be organised at the end of the year include combining creativity and energy psychology techniques.