Find your emotional centre in the changing world

Matt Bergan’s psychotherapy and counselling offers face to face, online, and phone based services specialising in:

  • Anxiety and depression

  • Unlocking the vices of shame

  • Brain spotting and Harmonic Brain Healing

  • Somatic enquiry

  • Nature based therapy

  • Deconstructing masculinity

  • Trans gender diverse and non-binary people

  • Sexuality, gender and coming out within LBGTQIA+ communities

  • Mindfulness, and building a flow state

  • Down-regulating meditation and breath work

Are you seeking deeper relating skills or wanting to improve your own self-awareness? 

Shine a light on patterns that are out of your awareness and no longer serving you.

Mathew Bergan

Mathew is a trained Gestalt Therapist (Advanced Clinical Training in Contemporary Gestalt Therapy and PACFA member) which honours the mind and body connection through talk therapy. He is also a trained Brainspotting (BSP) and Harmonic Brain Healing (HBH) practitioner.

Brainspotting is a psychotherapy technique that helps people process psychological trauma or other problems via eye movements, bilateral stimulation with gentle music, and client therapist attunement. Harmonic Brain Healing assist in breaking free from repetitive and intrusive thoughts and mental images. Like EMDR, a pointer is used to direct a client’s eye gaze. BSP and HBH both use the brain's natural capacity to heal itself by harnessing its ability for self scanning to activate, locate, and process sources of trauma and distress in the body.

Mathew is also a trained somatic counsellor and yoga master, with over 35 years of professional health and wellbeing experience. He practices his own form of meditation, mindfulness and breath work and stays connected to his own body through activities such as gym, yoga, dance, forest bathing, and five senses meditation.

What is Gestalt therapy?

Gestalt therapy is a form of psychotherapy designed to increase a person's awareness, freedom, and self-direction. It focuses on creating agency in the present moment, rather than excavating past experiences and believes people are more influenced by their present environment.

Contemporary Gestalt Therapy is built upon a relational approach that values your sense of connection to yourself, to others, and to our shared place in the world. It also recognises that the body keeps the score, and utilises somatic enquiry into stored trauma that may sit below the surface of the skin, or hidden from awareness. Contemporary Gestalt therapy also recognises the link between the human experience, and the dual relationship we all share with Nature.

Are you are seeking deeper relating skills or wanting to improve your own self-awareness? 

Do you want to improve your communication and connection with others?

Yesterday’s reality may not be the right fit for today – need a hand sorting out what stays and what goes?

Have a free 15-minute consult with Matt.

A no-obligation conversation to see if you’d like to work together.

“Matt has guided me through a very difficult time in my life. Together, we rebuilt my self esteem and I found a renewed sense of purpose and direction”.

—Katy F.