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Psychotherapy & Counselling in West London

Personal Development Therapy with Marcus Gottlieb

Modern life is full of challenges that can cause you to stop in your tracks. Psychotherapy and Counselling, as an individual or couple or in a personal development group, can help you to confront your worries, pressures or challenges and improve your relationships, behaviour and functioning.

Dealing constructively with your issues – whether around family, work or personal problems – means overcoming obstacles that, consciously or not, prevent you from shaping your own life in a direction that you find enriching, fulfilling and satisfying. The goal of the work in therapy is that you emerge more confident, content and optimistic about the future.


Psychotherapy in West London

There are many reasons that people seek a therapist to work with, from concerns about issues such as anger, anxiety or depression, to coping with particularly challenging life events such as the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship or a dramatic change in circumstances.

Find out more about psychotherapy in West London with Marcus Gottlieb

Abuse & Trauma Therapy in London

Abuse can be physical, emotional or sexual, and may have occurred in childhood or later in life.

Its effects can surface in the form of emotional or physical symptoms, confusion and low self esteem.

Find out more about therapy for abuse and trauma with Marcus Gottlieb

Boarding School Survivors Therapy

Ex-boarders often show very distinct but subtle effects of early abandonment and trauma, with behavioural and relationship difficulties blighting their adult life.

There are deep wounds that need to be healed with sensitivity and understanding.

Find out more about therapy for boarding school survivors with Marcus Gottlieb

Work & Career Issues Counselling

Professional and work relationships can often be a source of, and trigger for, problems and strong emotions, even sometimes distress and devastation.

Conflicts, power struggles, bias or simple clashes of personality can all be causes.

Find out more about therapy for work and career issues with Marcus Gottlieb


Marcus Gottlieb, Counsellor & Psychotherapist close to Notting Hill in West London

Marcus Gottlieb brings breadth of experience, warmth and insight to the task of helping you face a range of life challenges, by supporting your process of personal enquiry, through which you learn to manage all aspects of your life and increase your capacity and skills to solve problems.

He believes very strongly in the wisdom and resilience in each human being, and your fundamental right to heal and grow, as you develop self-knowledge and learn to give form and shape to your own destiny.

Conveniently located and easy to travel to, Marcus offers therapy in his peaceful, calm Therapy Rooms in West London (formerly in Notting Hill, and now in the Brackenbury Village area of Hammersmith).

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Boarding School Survivors Workshop Programme

Behind the Mask of the Survivor (2024) 

Part One:  Wednesday 05 JUNE – Monday 10 JUNE

Part Two:  Friday 04 OCT – Sunday 06 OCT

Venue: Oak Island Resort & Conference Centre, Nova Scotia, Canada

More information on the Nova Scotia workshop, including how to book

Pesso Workshops

Facilitated by Marcus Gottlieb and Deborah Clarke

Sunday 24th March
Sunday 5th May
Saturday 20th July
Sunday 15th September
Saturday 9th November

Pesso-Boyden System Psychomotor is a highly effective method for unblocking our deepest issues by ‘installing’ new memories to sit alongside our historic memories, and repairing the wounds and deficits that have informed our ‘map’ of the world. In a gentle, respectful process participants often take ‘roles’ in each other’s healing processes. Marcus and Deborah had several years of training in London and Boston with Albert Pesso and his ‘crown prince’ Lowijs Van Perquin, and are now accredited as Pesso therapists and supervisors and on the way to becoming UK trainers of the Pesso system.

Venues in London: W4 (Turnham Green) and W6 (Brackenbury Village)
Time: 10.00 am - 5.30 pm

* More details on this Pesso Boyden Therapy Workshop, and also read here.

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Pesso Boyden Group with accredited practitioners Deborah Clarke and Marcus Gottlieb

Pesso Boyden Group with accredited PBSP practitioners Deborah Clarke and Marcus Gottlieb

Pesso Boyden Therapy (‘PBSP’) is a philosophical process for becoming whole.

It is a respectful, interactive group process that heals by embedding new memories in the brain and in the body

Most people consciously or unconsciously have memories – explicit or implicit – of 

1. deficits 

2. traumas 

3. having to take care of others when we were too young – e.g. protecting a sibling, providing the joy in the life of an unhappy parent, unconsciously becoming the ‘spouse’ of a widowed parent, or making the world right after hearing stories of injustice. 

When any of these three categories of memory appear in the client’s work, the client and therapist work together to externalise them, in order to illuminate the client’s ways of handling life and to facilitate change. The client is always in charge of this process – people and incidents from the client’s past will be symbolised in the here-and-now either by people in the group or by objects in the room, all chosen and placed by the client. 

The therapist then works with the client to facilitate an antidote to what happened in the past – a new memory which provides what the client needed at that particular time in their past, from a specific kinship figure. This new memory may be developed over several sessions in a number of steps. In the Pesso approach we don’t change our history; however, we do change our response to our history, leading to a new perspective. 

The way is opened to possibilities of greater pleasure, satisfaction, meaning, integration and connectedness.

 



Deborah has worked as a Performance Coach for over 16 years having trained with Coach U. Her background is in the arts as an actor, theatre director and artistic director. She has worked with a wide range of people from all walks of life. Having first encountered Pesso Boyden as a client, she felt inspired to do the training herself. Since graduating in 2013 she has been running Personal Development workshops using the Pesso Boyden system and is now accredited by the official PBSP U.K. organisation.

Notting Hill Therapist | Marcus Gottlieb Psychotherapist & Counsellor
Marcus Gottlieb is a highly experienced London-based psychotherapist with a particular interest in boarding school survivor syndrome. Having trained alongside Deborah directly under Al Pesso and his closest collaborator Lowijs van Perquin, he is steeped in the work of PBSP and a strong believer in the client’s genetic impulse towards health and expression of their unique potential and individual destiny. He became an accredited Pesso Boyden therapist in 2021.
An Introduction to the Pesso Boyden Method

 

An opportunity to learn about and observe the distinctive techniques of this respectful body-based psychotherapy.

Suitable for both psychologically interested professionals, people seeking personal development/CPD and for people not in the therapeutic professions seeking to address entrenched issues. For all those who are interested in living a larger life. A special price of £35 for the day includes lunch and refreshments. CPD certificates will be available.

PBSP (Pesso-Boyden System Psychomotor) is a powerful, deeply respectful, psychotherapeutic process that uses feedback, ritual, objects and role players in a unique manner to heal the traumas, wounds and losses that affect our personal map of the world.

Its central goal is the imaginative creation of an ‘ideal’ healthy past that a person’s brain processes so that they emerge feeling differently about themselves. As Albert Pesso said, ‘Humanity is responsible for the meaning that surrounds us. The task for each person is to create a meaningful life and then live it with existential courage and passion.’

As well as gaining new perspectives, clients often experience increased pleasure, satisfaction, meaning and connectedness following a PBSP session and find themselves psychologically freer to make the changes they wish for in their lives.
Date: Saturday 7 October 2017
Venue: Notting Hill, London W11
Time: 10.00 am – 4.30 pm
Cost: £35 (inc lunch & refreshments)

 

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Boarding School Survivor Syndrome Conference

BOARDING SCHOOL: Surviving the Syndrome
Broken Attachment and Childhood Trauma

University of Brighton

Saturday 9 September 2017
9.30 am to 5.00 pm

Conference for psychotherapists, counsellors, mental health workers, boarding school survivors and other interested people.

Conference overall aims are to:
§ Present key aspects of what has been published about the psychological and other effects of boarding.
§ Explore helpful therapeutic approaches for clients who are former boarders.
§ Consider current research and a possible agenda for future research
§ Enable networking amongst those interested in this important topic

Chair: Pam Howard, School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton.

Speakers: Nick Duffell, Joy Schaverien, Alex Renton, Thurstine Basset, Anni Townend, Olya Khaleelee.

Group Discussion Facilitators: Marcus Gottlieb, Leslie Lund, Nicola Miller, Simon Partridge, Boarding Concern Directors.

For more details, contact Laura Williams:
southcoastevents@brighton.ac.uk

Pesso Boyden Workshop with Ana María Ruiz Sancho and Marcus Gottlieb

 

Pesso Boyden Therapy is a respectful and highly respected, body-based psychotherapy with distinctive techniques aimed at addressing entrenched issues. It is an interactive process that creates new body-based memories to heal emotional deficits of the past.

An exceptionally powerful personal development tool, it uses feedback, systematic procedures, objects and role players in a unique methodology, in order to repair the early traumas, wounds and losses that can powerfully influence the brain’s map of the world.

In shifting underlying perspectives, the way is opened to the possibility of greater pleasure, satisfaction, meaning and connectedness, and an enhanced freedom to effect longed-for changes.

It is expected there will be between 8 and 12 participants, with an absolute maximum of 15. The day will start with an explanation of Pesso Boyden and an experiential introduction, followed by 4 actual client sessions of an hour each.

Venue: Philadelphia Association, 4 Marty’s Yard, London NW3 1QW
Date: Saturday 3 June 2017
Time: 0930 to 1800
Cost: £75

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Ana María Ruiz Sancho is an experienced psychiatrist and a psychotherapist. She is also a specialist in group dynamics and an Institutional and Team Motivation Consultant.

Ana is the Founder and a Director of VocAcción, as well as being a qualified Pesso Boyden psychotherapist.


Notting Hill Therapist | Marcus Gottlieb Psychotherapist & Counsellor

Marcus Gottlieb works with relationships, sexuality, abuse and trauma, with a particular interest in boarding school survivor syndrome. Qualified in Pesso Boyden as well as other psychotherapies, he is also an Alexander Technique teacher.

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