Where your depth can be met.
A private practice for people in transition, people carrying spiritual hurt & confusion, and people tired of performing their way through life.
Psycho-Spiritual Coaching & Alchemical Mysticism · London & online
Most people arrive here holding two things at once: an identity built to keep them safe, and a self that no longer fits inside it. The tension between the two is not a fault to be corrected. It is the material we work with.
My practice brings counselling psychology together with spiritual practice from several traditions, so that neither your nervous system nor your inner life is left out of the room.
Hello, I’m Matthew.
Trauma-informed psycho-spiritual coach, practitioner and mystic
Maybe you’ve done the therapy. Maybe you’ve sat with readers, psychics and healers. And still, something in you knows there’s more: a deeper layer of who you are that hasn’t quite been met.
That’s where I come in.
I’m trained in counselling psychology, with a degree from the University of Ottawa, while also a tarot reader and spiritual guide. My work brings those two worlds together. The clinical side gives us grounding and clarity. The spiritual side opens the door to meaning, intuition and the guides already walking with you.
In our sessions, we look at the whole of you, not just the problem you came in with. We work with your nervous system, the different parts of you that hold old patterns, and the spiritual allies in your field. Tarot becomes a mirror for your inner world rather than a prediction. Over time, the stuck “way of being” that brought you here starts to loosen and shift.
I believe your spirituality is yours to define. Whether you call yourself Christian, occultist, or something in between, I won’t tell you what to believe. My role is to help you find your own authority, your own values, and the calling that truly moves you.
My work rests on three things: truth, love and wisdom. Clients tell me they leave feeling seen, held and gently expanded. Some feel the shift in a single session. Others choose to go deeper with me over months.
I see clients in person in Twickenham and Greenford, and online wherever you are.
If something in you is ready to come home to who you really are, I’d love to meet you.
Science
I draw on what neuroscience, somatics and trauma-informed practice now tell us. Change is not abstract. It happens in the nervous system, in the body, and in how the two speak to the mind. That gives us a shared map for what is happening in you, and firm ground for change that lasts.
Psychology
Our inner world is shaped by the stories we carry, the archetypes we live out, and the patterns that once kept us safe. We look at each of these with honesty and compassion, so the old patterns can loosen their hold and you can begin to live from what is true for you, on your own terms.
Spirituality
My work is rooted in religious and spiritual practice drawn from many traditions. I do not hand you a belief. I help you return to what you already know, in a room where your spiritual autonomy can be explored and practised safely, without judgement, shame or fear, at your own pace.
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In the UK, I work as a trauma-informed coach—which means I offer therapeutic containment for religious trauma, deconstruction, and spiritual crisis. I’m not a clinical psychologist (I don’t diagnose or treat mental illness), but I provide counselling for the existential and somatic fallout of high-control religion.
What this means practically:
I can work with your therapist (if you have one) as the “spiritual integration” piece they may not offer.
I can provide standalone counselling for religious trauma and deconstruction without the clinical distance.
If you need clinical mental health treatment, I maintain referral relationships with UK-registered psychotherapists and psychiatrists.
For International clients: I work as a trauma-informed spiritual coach due to regulatory differences, though my approach remains rooted in the same values.
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You’ve left high-control religious and/or spiritual communities and your body is still bracing for punishment.
You’re seeing a therapist for the clinical work (anxiety, depression, CPTSD) but need someone to help you process the spiritual grief and existential terror.
You want to explore spiritual practices such as tarot, past-life work, or Jungian shadow work without your counsellor pathologizing it.
You’re exhausted by “life coaches” who want to be your guru and therapists who don’t understand why leaving your spiritual community and worldview feels like dying.
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How we work together
Counselling for Religious Trauma & Deconstruction
This isn’t CBT worksheets or “just think positive.” It’s:
Somatic attunement: Tracking where religious fear lives in your nervous system
Archetypal exploration: Using tarot, active imagination, or depth psychology as diagnostic tools (always your meaning, not mine)
Deconstruction support: Holding the specific grief of losing community, certainty, and identity without rushing you to “reconstruction”
Boundary repair: Reclaiming spiritual autonomy when you’ve been taught that questioning is sin
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Trauma-Informed Practioner Centre for Healing, Australia and additional ongoing training
NARM-informed (NeuroAffective Relational Model for complex trauma)
NLP Practitioner (neuro-linguistic programming for pattern interruption)
Reiki LVL 2 (energetic support, optional integration)
Clear scope: I work with religious trauma, spiritual crisis, and deconstruction. I help people recover from pleasing towards autonomy and deepen their inner work and self-discovery. I refer out for clinical mental health treatment, active addiction, or acute psychiatric crisis.
The podcast
Conversations at the crossroads of science, psychology and spirituality, for people working out who they are and what they came here to do. I draw on my own experience of growing up gay in the Church, of looking for the truth behind the pulpit, and of learning to hear the voice of God outside the walls I was raised in.
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"My Alchemy session with Matthew was so powerful. Matthew is well-connected to Spirit / his guides. He intuited what was ready to be transformed and brought to light. He led me to a deeper understanding of myself - more than once, I was surprised at the answer I gave him.”
Elanna, Denver, USA
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"Matthew doesn’t sugarcoat things. He gets straight to the heart of what’s going on and it blows my mind. Every session pushed me to level up, but always with a sense of understanding and clarity. If you’re looking for someone who’ll challenge you but also have your back, he's the one."
Jared, Toronto, CA
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"Working with Matthew has been incredibly helpful. During our coaching sessions, I leave feeling called out in the best way possible. Working with Matthew has helped me step more into my unapologetic self and own my power in a way I never knew possible."
Simone, Ottawa, CA
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