Matthew Goldreich, BACP

Matthew Goldreich offers a supportive, non-judgemental therapeutic space where people can pause and reflect on their patterns of relating to themselves and others. He works to help clients understand how those patterns developed and to explore routes toward greater self-acceptance and meaningful change. Matthew frames therapy as a place both to address specific difficulties and to cultivate broader self-awareness.

Working collaboratively and at a pace that suits each person, he helps clients make sense of their present concerns by tracing links to past relationships and experiences. His primary clinical orientation is psychodynamic, an approach that focuses on how current feelings and behaviours are shaped by earlier life events. Matthew believes that increasing self-knowledge can reduce inner conflict and open up new possibilities for choice and change.

Sessions are structured to allow open, uncensored reflection, with attention paid to the thoughts, feelings and images that arise during the work. He provides gentle direction to support accountability and to help clients stay engaged with the therapeutic process. Matthew is a registered member of the BACP - the UK professional association for counsellors and psychotherapists - and completed MSc-level clinical training at the University of Exeter. He also holds an MSc in Psychology from Birkbeck College, University of London, and is undertaking Clinical Doctoral training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the University of Exeter.