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 and Alchemical Mysticism· London and 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.
Matthew Mann
Trauma-informed psycho-spiritual coach, practitioner and mystic
I was once thought to become a pastor; I learned early how to be good, quiet and keep the peace at a cost to myself. Leaving that behind took therapy, grief, shadow work and a great deal of wonder and determination.
I now work where inner parts work meets intuitive practice, and where nervous-system care meets the depth of spiritual work. Clinical research and mystical wisdom are not at odds.
Together they are the full picture of who you are.
And I’m here to be your guide.
Science
I weave in what we now know from neuroscience, somatics, and trauma-informed practice. Healing and transformation aren’t abstract—they’re grounded in how your nervous system, body, and mind work together. This gives us a framework to understand what’s happening and create real, lasting change.
Psychology
Our inner world is shaped by the stories we carry, the archetypes we embody, and the survival patterns we’ve learned. Together we explore these layers with compassion and honesty, so you can step out of old patterns and begin living from truth, power, and freedom.
Spirituality
At the heart of my work is a deep connection to both religious and spiritual practices from a variety of sources. My work is to guide you back to truths already within you and create a space where your spiritual autonomy can be practiced and explored safely without judgment, shame or fear.
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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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