About Regina
Regina Martins is a counsellor psychologist with sixteen years of clinical experience. She is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She originally trained in psychology in Brazil and continued her counselling education in the United Kingdom.
Regina's background includes study of trauma and psychoanalysis at the Tavistock Clinic. She has offered short- and long-term psychotherapy in educational, community and health settings across London.
How Regina works
She has also worked in support roles with older adults and people from diverse cultural backgrounds. Her way of working draws on psychodynamic ideas and attachment theory. She pays attention to how past experiences and family relationships influence current patterns of feeling and behaving.
Sessions often look at relational injuries and repeated ways of relating that cause pain now. Regina aims to create a warm space where people can talk about what troubles them. She listens for patterns and helps people make sense of difficulties.
The focus is on identifying unhelpful repeating cycles and finding different ways to relate and cope. She offers therapy in English and Portuguese. Practical options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging, so people can choose the format that fits their life.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and a schedule is agreed with the therapist. Regina’s combined training and international background inform a reflective, relational approach. The emphasis is on understanding feelings, improving relationships with others and building more satisfying day-to-day routines.
Regina lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Regina works with
The areas below are the ones Regina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | HCPC, BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English, Portuguese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How relational approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at the ways early bonds shape current relationships. It helps people understand trust, closeness and separation issues that appear in adult life. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and acceptance, giving space for people to describe their concerns and find their own solutions. Psychodynamic Therapy examines repeating patterns and unconscious feelings tied to past experiences to help change long-standing behaviours.Choosing the right method is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful. This is a collaborative process and approaches may be combined or adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when visual cues are helpful. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging provide brief check-ins, ongoing reflection between sessions and a way to access support without scheduling a full call. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while keeping the focus on understanding relationships and changing patterns.
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