- Years in practice
- 16
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Regina
Regina Martins is a counsellor psychologist with 16 years of practice. She is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Regina trained first in Psychology in Brazil and continued her counselling studies in the UK, including a year studying Trauma and Psychoanalysis at the Tavistock Clinic.
She has worked in education, community and health settings across London boroughs. That work included both long-term and short-term psychotherapy with adults and older adults.
Background and approach
Regina has a history of helping people from varied cultural backgrounds and has an interest in supporting expatriates. Regina uses psychodynamic ideas to look at how past experiences shape present behaviour. She pays attention to relationship patterns, attachment issues and how childhood dynamics can repeat in adult life.
Sessions focus on noticing those patterns and understanding what keeps them going. Her practice also draws from client-centred principles that place the person’s experience at the centre of the work. That means listening closely, reflecting back what’s happening and letting the pace be set by the person in the room.
Regina offers therapy in English and Portuguese. She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and parenting challenges. She also supports people dealing with grief, addictions, body image and relationship struggles.
People meet her to talk through recurring difficulties, change unhelpful habits and cope with major life shifts. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps connect someone with the right scheduling options and session format.
What Regina works with
Everything Regina lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Regina helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Regina lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Regina’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of connection and how early relationships shape current bonds. Online work can help people notice repeating cycles in their relationships and practice different ways of relating by talking these through in sessions.Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of the work. In this approach the counsellor listens closely, reflects what is said and lets the conversation move at the client’s pace. It suits people who want a supportive, empathic space to name difficult feelings and make small changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Regina will work collaboratively to choose methods that fit someone’s goals, needs and comfort with different formats. That may mean blending approaches as trust and understanding grow.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see facial expressions and body language, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for quick check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care across busy lives and varied locations, and they allow sessions to be arranged around work, childcare or other commitments.
Questions people ask about Regina
What kinds of issues does she help with?
Regina works with many concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and parenting challenges, plus grief, addictions and relationship issues.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style blends psychodynamic listening with client-centred reflection to explore past and present patterns that shape current behaviour.
How much experience does she have?
She has 16 years of clinical experience across educational, community and health sectors.
What credentials and region are listed?
She is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), and she practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English and Portuguese.
Can people outside the UK work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can take place via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
How are fees handled and how do I begin?
Cost varies with location and scheduling and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time. To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to therapist availability.
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