Justyna Matejek

I currently work online and offer flexible appointments across the week, including some flexibility to change days or times when needed.

I offer an initial 15-minute consultation, giving us an opportunity to talk briefly about what is bringing you to counselling and whether working together feels right for you.

Does your mind rarely switch off?

Perhaps you find yourself overthinking conversations, worrying about what might happen, feeling tense or on edge, or becoming overwhelmed by things you once managed more easily. You may look as though you are coping on the outside while internally you feel anxious, exhausted or disconnected from yourself.

Anxiety does not always feel like obvious fear. It can appear as a racing mind, difficulty relaxing, physical tension, irritability, poor sleep, self-doubt, feeling constantly responsible for everything, or simply a sense that you cannot quite settle.

I am a 麻豆原创-accredited counsellor with particular experience in anxiety, stress, trauma and the relationship between our emotional experiences and the body.

My approach is warm, relational and collaborative. I will listen carefully to what you tell me, but we may also become curious about what happens within you when you feel anxious or overwhelmed 鈥� perhaps tension in your body, changes in your breathing, restlessness, shutting down or feeling disconnected.

Sometimes understanding these responses can help us make sense of experiences that thinking alone has not been able to resolve.

Together, we can explore what may be contributing to your anxiety or stress, understand patterns that keep you feeling stuck and gradually help you develop a greater sense of stability, self-understanding and trust in yourself.

You do not need to arrive knowing exactly what is wrong or what you need to talk about. We can begin from wherever you are.

In therapy, 

My practice is rooted in person-centred and humanistic counselling and informed by trauma and somatic approaches.

I am interested not only in what has happened to you, but in how those experiences may continue to live in your thoughts, relationships and body.

For some people, anxiety develops during a particularly stressful period of life. For others, there may be a much longer history of having to stay alert, adapt to other people, keep everything together or suppress their own needs.

Therapy can give us space to understand these patterns with curiosity rather than judgement.

Although talking is an important part of our work, I do not believe that everything can necessarily be resolved through words alone. Anxiety and stress are often experienced physically 鈥� through tension, shallow breathing, restlessness, exhaustion, feeling frozen or constantly being on alert.

When appropriate, I may gently bring attention to these experiences and help you develop a deeper awareness of what your body and nervous system are communicating.

I have extensive experience working therapeutically with trauma, post-traumatic stress and the impact of sexual abuse. This has shaped my belief that therapy needs to move at a pace that feels manageable and that trust cannot be rushed.

I am compassionate and accepting, but I am also an engaged therapist. I may offer an observation, ask a question that helps us look more deeply at something or gently challenge a pattern when I believe this could be useful.

My aim is not to tell you how to live your life, but to help you understand yourself more fully so that you can make choices from a place that feels calmer, freer and more authentically your own.

Beginning counselling can feel daunting, particularly if you are already anxious or accustomed to managing things by yourself.

Our first session is therefore unhurried. You do not need to prepare anything or tell me your entire story.

We will talk about what has brought you to counselling, what you would like support with and what you hope might be different in your life.

Most importantly, the first session gives you an opportunity to experience what it feels like to talk with me and decide whether I am the right therapist for you.

If you would like to explore working together, please get in touch. I aim to respond to enquiries within 24 hours.

I am an experienced counsellor, clinical supervisor and group facilitator, working from a person-centred, body鈥搈ind and Gestalt perspective. My supervision practice is relational, reflective and collaborative, with particular attention to the connection between psychological, emotional and somatic processes.

I offer supervision as a space to think deeply about your clinical work, your relationships with clients and your own responses within the therapeutic encounter. Alongside exploring what is being spoken, I am interested in what may also be communicated through the body, through shifts in energy, tension, emotion, intuition, silence and the felt sense of what is happening between therapist and client.

I believe that some of the most important aspects of therapeutic work cannot always be understood through cognitive reflection alone. Trauma, relational patterns and nervous-system responses can emerge in subtle and embodied ways, both in clients and in us as practitioners. Bringing curiosity to these experiences can deepen our understanding of the therapeutic process and help us recognise what may otherwise remain outside awareness.

My approach to supervision is supportive and containing, but also thoughtful and appropriately challenging. I aim to create a relationship in which you can bring uncertainty, difficult clinical moments, ethical dilemmas, mistakes, vulnerability and success without feeling that you need to perform or have the right answer.

I see supervision as a place for both professional development and personal reflection: a space to strengthen your clinical confidence, deepen your awareness of yourself as a practitioner and remain connected to the qualities of presence, curiosity and humanity that sustain meaningful therapeutic work.

My supervision is informed by the Seven-Eyed Model (Hawkins & Shohet, 2012), which offers a flexible way of exploring the complexity of therapeutic work from different perspectives: the client, the therapeutic relationship, your own responses as a practitioner, the supervisory relationship and the wider context in which the work takes place.

I value the breadth that this model offers, while also believing that no framework should become more important than the process unfolding between us. Supervision with me is not about fitting your work into a model or finding the 鈥渞ight鈥� interpretation. Instead, I use theory and structure as a support for curiosity, reflection and deeper understanding.

I pay particular attention to what is happening in the here and now. Alongside thinking together about the client and the therapeutic process, we may notice what the work evokes in you emotionally, relationally and physically. At times, this might mean slowing down and becoming curious about a feeling, bodily response, image, tension, uncertainty or intuition that has emerged in relation to a client.

These responses can hold valuable information about the therapeutic relationship and can help us understand aspects of the work that may not yet be fully available through words alone.

Supervision with me is therefore a collaborative and reflective space, grounded in presence, ethical awareness and cultural humility. Together, we explore not only what is happening in your work, but how it is happening, what it may be communicating, and what it evokes in you as a practitioner.

My aim is to support you in developing greater confidence in your own clinical judgement while remaining open, curious and responsive to the complexity of therapeutic relationships.

I offer 20-minute free consultations, during which I will explain and answer all your questions.