About Matthew
Matthew Goldreich offers support for people coping with anxiety, stress, relationship worries, depression and other life challenges. He provides a calm space where people can reflect on their patterns and begin to understand what keeps them stuck. Sessions are paced to individual needs so people can approach difficult topics in stages that feel manageable.
Matthew uses a psychodynamic approach to help people see how past relationships shape current feelings and behaviour.
Background and approach
He listens for recurring patterns and for moments that reveal what lies beneath everyday reactions. This helps people make sense of why they respond as they do and consider new ways of relating to themselves and others. Sessions are conversational and open.
People are encouraged to speak freely about thoughts, feelings and images that come up. Matthew offers gentle direction to help maintain focus, set small goals and support accountability between sessions. He trained at the University of Exeter at MSc level in clinical work and is completing further clinical doctoral training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the same university.
He also holds an MSc in Psychology from Birkbeck College, University of London and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. People who want a reflective, insight-focused way of working may find this helpful. Matthew welcomes clients who want to better understand themselves and to make gradual, sustainable changes in how they cope and relate.
How psychodynamic and trauma-informed approaches work online
Matthew draws on psychodynamic ideas and trauma-focused thinking to help people understand how past relationships and experiences influence present reactions. Psychodynamic work focuses on patterns of relating and on how hidden feelings and memories can shape behaviour and emotional responses. This approach can help with anxiety, relationship problems and struggles like low self-esteem.Trauma-focused therapy pays attention to how distressing events affect the body and mind. It uses careful, paced work to help people process difficult memories and reduce their hold on daily life, which can support recovery from trauma, abuse and related symptoms.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Matthew will discuss goals, preferences and what feels manageable, and adjust methods as therapy progresses. Together they decide which techniques suit the person's needs and pace.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging allows ongoing reflection between appointments. These options help people fit therapy around work, travel or family commitments while keeping the focus on progress and understanding.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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