Agnieszka Religa

I’m Family and Couple Therapist (MSc). I also have MSc in Psychology and I’m trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy. In my work, I help families/couples who are stuck in patterns of hurtful behaviours and who no longer know what to do for the best

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Agnieszka is a highly qualified therapist with a MSc in Psychology and an MSc in Family and Couple Therapy. She also has additional training in Emotionally Focused Therapy.

She has been practicing in a variety of settings including private practice and child /adults NHS services. She is registered with UK Council for Psychotherapy and Association for Family Therapy.

Agnieszka has a warm and validating approach. She’s interested in client’s personal and relational strengths and resources while acknowledging how overwhelming difficulties can sometimes appear.

Agnieszka creates an environment that enables clients to safely express and explore difficult thoughts and feelings, to understand each other’s experiences and views and appreciate each other’s needs. This enables families/couples to build on their strengths and make useful relational and individual changes.

In relationships we often get stuck in patterns of hurtful behaviours (e.g. in couple relationships we often experience blame/distant or attack/withdraw pattern). In the process of therapy, Agnieszka helps families/couples to explore those patterns and connect with emotions, unmet attachment needs, longings and fears that drive those hurtful behaviours. This helps to process emotions and strengthen relational bonds. Subsequently facilitating new ways of interacting/communicating that redefine the relationship as safe and secure – healing the relationship as well as health and wellbeing of all individuals involved.

Agnieszka’s approach can also be helpful for individuals, as an opportunity to reflect on important relationships/unmet attachment needs and fears that cause suffering and poor mental health. Subsequently, helping individuals to find new ways forward.

Agnieszka offers therapy in English and in Polish.

Other Team Members

Gulya Diyarova

EFT Clinic director

Gulya Diyarova, MSc Tavistock, PgDip Relate Inst, ICEEFT Cert. EFT therapist and supervisor, UKCP Reg, COSRT Accr, BACP Reg, ICEEFT Reg.

Kevin Standish

B.Soc.Sci (Hons)(Social Work); Hons (Psychology); Masters (Clinical Psychology); PGDip (Psychotherapy); PGDip (Couple Therapy); PGCert in Higher Education, Emotionally Focused Therapy training

Laura Vowels

(Currently re-located to Switzerland)

PhD Psychology, MSc Family Sciences, Couple and Family Therapy, PostGrad Certificate Evidence-based psychological practice, BSc Psychology, Emotionally Focused Therapy training

Azah Yazmin

(Currently re-located to Malaysia)

Law degree, Malaysia University, MA (Counselling Psychology), MSc Psychology, Emotionally Focused Therapy training, Discernment Counselling

Elena Churikova

MSc, PGDip (3), EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) therapist, EMDR, Discernment Counselling

Dr Jo Wood

PhD in Psychology, Accred. CBT & Schema therapist, consultant EMDR practitioner, EFT-trained therapist

Nadine Hastings

MBACP ICEEFT Person Centred Counselling Degree FDSC, Relationship counselling certificate, EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy), EFIT (Emotionally focused Individual therapy), Discernment couples therapy and EFT level 1 and level 2

Máire Stedman

B.Soc.Sc (Social Work/Psychology), MSc Family Couple and Systemic Psychotherapy, ADOS-WPS Autism Diagnostic Observation Training, C.C.E.T.S.W. Social Work Practice Teaching Award, Certificate in Divorce & Conciliation, Advanced Diploma in the Supervision of Family & Systemic Psychotherapy, Additional training in Emotionally Focused Therapy;UKCP Reg.

Michael Preston

(Currently relocated to the US)

Marriage and Family therapist, cert. Emotionally Focused Therapist (EFT), Trauma focused therapy, Addiction issues training

Marzena Ryglewska

MSc (Family Therapy), MSc (Pedagogy, Social Work and Social Rehabilitation), PGCert (Social
Interventions), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Emotionally Focused Couple
Therapy (EFT) training. (UKCP Registered, member of AFT, ICEEFT, BESF, EMDR Association UK).

Sedef Oral

BA(Hons)in Guidance and Psycholog cal Counselling; MA in Clinical Psychology & Couples and Family Therapy; MBACP (Accred); RegCOSRT Relationship Therapist; Accredited EMDR Therapist (Europe & UK)