About Matthew
Matthew Goldreich helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, addiction, eating and sleeping problems, anger, career worries, ADHD and trauma-related issues. He offers a calm space where people can talk about what is happening now and what led them here.
Sessions are paced to each person and aim to make difficult patterns easier to understand. Matthew works in a psychodynamic way, which means he pays attention to how past relationships and experiences shape current feelings and behaviour.
How Matthew works
That approach helps people notice automatic reactions and make different choices. He also draws on attachment ideas to look at how early bonds affect intimacy and trust. In sessions people are invited to speak openly and follow whatever feels important that day.
Matthew listens for recurring themes, feelings and images, and offers light direction to keep progress on track. The focus is on building self-understanding and practical steps towards change rather than quick fixes. He holds a BACP accreditation from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and completed MSc-level clinical training at the University of Exeter.
Matthew also has an MSc in Psychology from Birkbeck, University of London and is undertaking further clinical doctoral training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the University of Exeter. Sessions can be used to address a specific problem or to slowly build greater self-awareness.
Matthew aims to work collaboratively so people feel heard and able to try new ways of relating to themselves and others.
Matthew lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Matthew works with
The areas below are the ones Matthew selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Ways Matthew uses psychodynamic and attachment ideas online
Matthew draws on psychodynamic therapy to help people understand how past relationships shape present feelings and behaviour. This approach looks for repeating patterns and helps people make different choices by increasing self-awareness and linking past experience with present experience.He also uses Attachment-Based ideas to explore how early bonds influence trust, closeness and communication in adult relationships. That work can be useful for people struggling with intimacy, commitment issues or patterns of avoidance and dependence.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Matthew will discuss what feels most relevant and adapt sessions to the individual's needs, goals and preferences in a collaborative way. People often try one way of working and adjust as understanding grows.
Online sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls are good when seeing facial cues matters, phone sessions suit those with less bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera, and messaging or live chat can work for brief check-ins or when fitting therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to attend regularly and fit therapy around work, travel or family life.
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