Regina Martins, HCPC, BACP

Regina Martins is a counsellor psychologist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council and a psychodynamic counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She trained first in psychology in Brazil and later trained in psychodynamic counselling in the UK, also studying trauma and psychoanalysis at the Tavistock Clinic. Regina works in English and Portuguese and brings 16 years of clinical experience.

She has worked in education, community and health settings across diverse London boroughs. That work included both short-term and long-term psychotherapy with adults and older adults. She has particular experience with people who have moved between cultures and with clients from varied backgrounds.

Regina draws on psychodynamic ideas and object relations to look at how past and present experiences shape everyday life. She pays attention to relational trauma, repeating patterns and family roots of current difficulties. Sessions focus on making sense of those patterns and what they mean now.

People come to her for help with stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, addiction-related concerns, eating and sleeping problems, and low self-esteem. She also sees people coping with life changes, chronic illness, parenting strain, and more complex personality and attachment issues.

Her style is warm and reflective. She offers a calm space to talk about what troubles you and to try new ways of relating. To start, clients use the site’s continue button on this profile and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling.

How her approaches guide online work

Regina uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape how people connect now; this helps with relationship difficulties, trust and intimacy struggles. Client-centred work puts the person’s experience first, offering a listening space where the client’s pace and priorities steer the work. Psychodynamic therapy explores repeating patterns and the influence of past relationships on current feelings and behaviour, which can be useful for long-standing problems and deep emotional pain.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and then adapt methods over time. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to what a person needs in practice rather than fitting them into a single model.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments around work and family life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when that suits a busy day. It can also make it simpler to maintain continuity during life changes, and to access someone experienced with cross-cultural issues without needing to travel.