Our Team

Yolanda Marin-Perez is an experienced senior counsellor/psychotherapist who works with individual adults with a wide range of issues and problems including: depression/low mood; anxiety; stress; and relationship issues. She works particularly well with clients who feel stuck in recurring and long-standing emotional or relational patterns, often linked to earlier experiences. 

Yolanda has particular interest in the impact of relational and developmental trauma and how past experiences can influence current emotional responses, self-esteem and ways of relating. 

She is particularly experienced in supporting clients with pregnancy and postnatal issues, infertility, and early parenting challenges, as well as bereavement and loss, life transitions, identity issues, anger, eating and body image concerns, gender and sexual identity, chronic illness, and work-related difficulties. 
 

Yolanda's way of working

Yolanda works from a Gestalt and relational approach, supporting clients to identify and understand recurring patterns in their emotions, thoughts, and relationships. She believes in the potential for change, growth and healing. She works with clients to explore how earlier experiences may be influencing current difficulties, including patterns that may feel repetitive or difficult to change. Her approach is particularly suited to clients seeking a deeper understanding of their emotional and relational difficulties. 

Yolanda aims to support clients in making sense of their experiences, developing greater emotional awareness, and finding more flexible ways of responding. 

She works collaboratively with each client, offering a supportive and non-judgmental space in which they can explore their difficulties at their own pace. Where appropriate, she may also incorporate mindfulness and body awareness into her work. 

Yolanda's guiding principles are compassion, respect, confidentiality, support and openess. 

Yolanda is fluent in Spanish and is happy to work with clients who feel more comfortable speaking in this language.
 

Yolanda's background and training

Yolanda has worked in counselling or mental health roles in a range of different settings since 2013. During this time, she worked with a number of different client groups including: people with fertility/pregnancy related issues; women; those experiencing social isolation; homeless people; those with learning and physical disabilities; and those requiring family support. 

She has a Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy from The Edinburgh Gestalt Institute and a BSc (hons) in Psychology from Queen Margaret University. In addition, Yolanda has a BSc (hons) in Communication, Advertising and Public Relations from the University of Malaga. 

Yolanda is a member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and the Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Institute (GPTI).




   

Yolanda's fee

Yolanda charges £75 a session for self-funding clients (concessions available). She also works with clients referred via their employer/organisation – for further details, please visit First Psychology Assistance.