Gestalt Birmingham

Counselling & Psychotherapy Supervision and Training

IN BIRMINGHAM CITY CENTRE, KINGS HEATH AND ONLINE

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Therapy with Matthew Lee

Matthew Lee

BSc (Hons)

MNCS (Accred), Cert. Counselling 

UKCP Registered Gestalt Psychotherapist 

Based in Digbeth Court (B12).

Offering in-person and online therapy.

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Profile

I provide a warm, non-judgemental and supportive presence and work primarily with a gestalt therapeutic style, focusing on the ‘here and now’ and present moment of what is happening for you in the session. By raising your awareness of this ongoing process I can help you to understand more fully what you’re bringing to therapy and who you are as a person.

My Approach

Our relationship is at the heart of the work together, i.e. how we relate to each other. So by exploring your experience – your thinking, feelings and emotions, I pay attention to my own experience when I am with you too and use it to inform what may be going on between us.  By relating in this manner, patterns of your behaviour and how you are in the world become clearer. These can then be addressed and explored more deeply, and through this process possibilities to bring about change for you can then become clearer.

My Experience

I've worked in the higher and further education sectors for over 20 years supporting young adults and as a volunteer counsellor since 2011. As a registered member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and Accredited Registrant with the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS), I abide by their respective ethical codes of practice. Being registered is an assurance to you that I meet a minimum standard for safe and ethical practice. I am able to offer the reassurance of having an up to date enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check in place, which helps prevent unsuitable professionals from working with vulnerable people. I also have Professional Indemnity Insurance. 

Training, qualifications and

professional experience

Advanced Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy (Masters level) Welsh Psychotherapy Institute (WPI), Cardiff, 2023 - passed with Distinction

3 additional years of post-graduate study completed on MSc Gestalt Psychotherapy programme, Metanoia, London, 2009-12

Accredited Registrant (MNCS Accred) with the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society

Workshops completed in Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy and The Living

Body in Gestalt

Certificate in Humanistic Counselling Skills, The Gestalt Centre, London, 2009 

Working as a counsellor and therapist since 2011, including in a voluntary capacity at Coping with Cancer, Leicester and at Cedar Counselling, Birmingham. Currently runs a private practice alongside working as a Student Counsellor at Aston University, Birmingham

Visiting speaker on MSc Health Psychology programme at Coventry University delivering workshops in Key Skills in Gestalt Counselling & Psychotherapy  

Professional Memberships

UKCP Registered Psychotherapist

United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

NCPS (National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society)

Accredited Registrant Member

WPI (Welsh Psychotherapy Institute)

Member 

UKAGP (United Kingdom Association for Gestalt Practitioners)

Member

GPTI (Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Institute)

Accredited Member

Get in touch with Matthew Lee

Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions about how counselling works, or to arrange an initial assessment appointment. This enables us to discuss the reasons you are thinking of coming to counselling, whether it could be helpful for you and whether I am the right counsellor for you. You can also call me on +44 7763 681 605 if you would prefer to leave a message or speak to me first.

All enquires are usually answered within 24 hours, and all contact is strictly confidential and uses secure phone and email services.

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