Leo Martyn

Leo Martyn is an insightful and skilfully attuned counsellor, in practice for over 17 years and holds membership with the Australian Counselling Association. He enjoys and specialises in providing effective therapeutic support to adults and couples and is dedicated to helping his clients develop the courage, insight, and confidence needed to awaken lasting positive changes in their lives.

Leo is strongly committed to providing his clients with practical self-awareness and interpersonal strategies to increase their capacity to meet life’s challenges. Leo provides a space where his clients may speak freely of their concerns and explore possible pathways forward. He has extensive expertise helping clients resolve a broad range of personal and interpersonal issues and stressors related to a wide range of presenting concerns.

Counselling with Leo is guided by a contemporary range of humanistic and evidence-based approaches, tailoring sessions to meet the unique needs of each client, heightening self-awareness and insight to catalyse positive and lasting change through awareness, not just of mind, but body too. Leo takes great interest in the life journeys of his clients, assisting them to find new narratives and creative solutions to current challenges, through evidence-based and humanistic approaches.

Leo is informed and inspired by therapeutic modalities such as Somatic and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, mindfulness and meditation practice and Gestalt Therapy along with Cognitive-Behavioural, Acceptance-Commitment, Schema and Solution Focused Therapies. Leo has a strong interest in nurturing healthy relationships via Gottman Couples Therapy, Emotionally-Focused and other attachment and trauma-informed models. Leo provides his clients with a respectful, dynamic, and client-centred experience, which seeks to catalyse opportunities for authentic, lasting personal growth and change.

• Graduate Diploma of Psychotherapy & Counselling
• Master of Social Work
• Gottman Couples Therapy - Level 3