Linda Mather (nee Spencer) , BACP

Linda Mather (nee Spencer) is a psychotherapist with 26 years of clinical experience who combines professional training, supervision work and authorship to inform a thoughtful, adaptable practice. She is a trainer and clinical supervisor and has written counselling textbooks and self-help books, bringing those teaching and writing skills into her therapeutic work. She holds BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - which reflects her standing within the UK counselling profession.

Her approach is integrative, drawing on a range of models so that therapy is tailored to each person. Linda adapts her use of cognitive-behavioural, humanistic and psychodynamic ideas alongside solution-focused techniques and transactional analysis to match the client’s needs, shaping dialogue and treatment plans to be practical and relevant. She works with children and adolescents, particularly on self-harm, emotional regulation, anxiety, depression, communication, bullying, loss and friendship issues.

Across the lifespan she has supported people with depression, anxiety, relationship and parenting difficulties, career challenges, obsessive compulsive difficulties, substance misuse and the consequences of trauma or emotional abuse. Linda offers a warm, understanding therapeutic relationship and a calm space to explore concerns. She aims to support clients through the often difficult first steps into therapy and to help them move forward from the problems they are facing.