Therapy from the comfort of your home
Therapy services at Thera Foundation offers a space to explore your emotional wellbeing, supporting you to create the foundations of a healthy and sustainable lifestyle. Our approach to therapy is based on the best practice theory and research and is caring and sensitive to your needs. Our goal is to help you develop a greater sense of self awareness and to support you to make positive changes in your life, to develop your own capacity to resolve emotional, personal and relationship issues.
Psychotherapy is often a start point to getting to know yourself again, this may be challenging as we build up defences to protect us from getting hurt. This is a safe journey at your pace, always led by you.
Therapy can offer life changing benefits, one of the main benefits is that you can start living life in the present moment as opposed to being stuck in the past or worried about the future. This allows us to enjoy aspects of the present, having emotional experiences with the tools to be able to manage the myriad of emotions that we as humans experience on a daily basis. Therapy supports clients to process trauma in a safe and supportive relationship, developing coping skills, distress tolerance techniques, calming the nervous system which improves sleep, functionality and relationships.
Martine is a Psychotherapist with extensive experience in working with complex trauma and PTSD, having worked across both the public mental health system and in in private practice. Martine’s work integrates body, mind, brain, and social connectedness to understand and treat trauma.
Martine is a highly trained clinician with a background in Clinical Social Work and has a broad experience providing trauma-informed therapy to a range of trauma survivors and their families, as well as expert consultation to agencies seeking to enhance their trauma-focused service delivery. Martine has specialised training in a range of therapeutic modalities which include, specialised trauma approaches such as EMDR and Internal Family Systems (level 2 Practitioner), Deep Brain Reorienting, psychodynamic therapy, psychoanalytic therapy, interpersonal therapy, attachment theory and mother/infant attachment, child and adolescent psychotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, narrative therapy, family and couples therapy.
Martine also uses elements of mindfulness, meditation where appropriate and works in a way that recognises that trauma resides in the body and therefore therapy can focus on supporting clients to build connections between the mind and the body.
Martine has extensive experience in working with sexual trauma, domestic violence, chronic neglect in childhood, traumatic grief and loss issues, mood disorders, disordered eating and somatic issues. Martine has over 30 years of experience, working with individuals from infancy through to adulthood, in the context of individual, family and couple's therapy.
Testimonials
“The day I met Martine, I was desperately searching for a therapist who could propel me from the depths of emotional turmoil and a constant state of anxiety. The first thing I remember about Martine is she went above and beyond to give me the time, patience and gentle approach I needed to feel instantly safe and held. For the last 5 years, I have been fortunate enough to work with Martine through my childhood trauma using psychotherapy, trauma sensitive yoga, EMDR, Family System Therapy and a myriad of mental health modalities that were relevant to where I was psychologically. Throughout this process, I have seen my entire life evolve into a much more stable, calm and centred space. I have been able to work through the triggers that once paralysed me and have insight into the intergenerational trauma cycles that I now have the tools to break. I am so grateful for the way Martine has always treated me with respect, kindness, generosity and patience. Through our therapeutic relationship, I have been able to heal much of my anxious attachment style and develop my self-confidence, self-esteem and internal sense of security. Martine has always made me feel safe and held, seen and celebrated, and understood in a way I never thought was possible. I am so grateful for all the ways Martine has impacted my life, my relationships, my career and my relationship with myself. I have experienced healing with Martine in a way that I never thought was possible and because of her, I believe in the power of therapy and I highly recommend her, especially to survivors of trauma"
Simone
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