TIM MATTIA THERAPY

People come to therapy for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes something specific has happened: a loss, a relationship ending, a traumatic event, a career change, anxiety or depression, addiction, a crisis of identity, or simply reaching a point where you feel you can’t just keep on going like this.

Other times, there isn’t one obvious reason. You might feel stuck, disconnected or overwhelmed, or find yourself repeating the same patterns in relationships, work or life without really understanding why.

Whatever brings you here, therapy gives us a private space to slow things down and pay attention to what’s actually going on for you.

You don’t need to prepare for a session or know what you’re supposed to talk about. You can bring whatever is on your mind that day and we’ll work from there. Sometimes we’ll look at what’s happening in your life now, and other times, we might explore relationships, childhood, family, loss, identity or experiences from much further back.

Over time, we can begin to notice connections: why certain situations affect you so strongly, where particular beliefs about yourself may have come from, why familiar patterns keep repeating and what you might want to do differently.

If you’re returning to therapy after months or even years away, we don’t need to start again from the beginning. We can talk about what was previously useful, what wasn’t, where you left off and what feels important now.

There isn’t a right way to do therapy. You don’t have to be articulate, endlessly introspective or particularly good at talking about your feelings.

You just have to turn up, and we’ll go from there.

A standard 50-minute session, either online or at my London or Bath practice, is £100.

Outcall sessions begin at £250, with any travel costs or additional expenses agreed in advance.

Concessions are occasionally available; please ask.

Working in the creative industries can be exciting and deeply fulfilling. It can also be uncertain, demanding and lonely.

I work with clients across music, film, television, advertising, art and digital media, including artists and performers, directors, producers and managers, content creators, executives, production teams and crew.

The challenges that bring creative people to therapy are often the same ones that exist outside the industry: anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, addiction, grief, low self-esteem, questions of identity and self. But creative careers can bring unique and unusual pressures of their own.

Your sense of self may become closely tied to your work or success. Long shoots, touring and intense production schedules can make relationships and ordinary life difficult to maintain. Freelance careers can alternate between overwhelming workloads and uncomfortable, lonely uncertainty. Success itself can bring expectation, scrutiny, loss of privacy or difficulty knowing who to trust.

When a tour, production, campaign or project suddenly ends, the transition back into everyday life can also be harder than expected. After months of intensity and purpose, the quiet can feel strangely empty and isolating.

Having spent the last 20 years in the creative industries, you won’t need to begin our sessions by explaining how that world works.

Therapy with me offers you a confidential space away from the expectations of work, colleagues, audiences and the people who depend on you. It’s somewhere you can speak openly about what’s happening (professionally or personally) and begin to understand what you need to move forward.

I work in person in London and Bath and online with clients across the UK and internationally. I also see clients at mutually agreed locations including sets, tours, studios, locations, hotels, and private residences. Please feel free to get in touch for further details.

A standard 50-minute session, either online or at my London or Bath practice, is £100.

Outcall sessions begin at £250, with any travel costs or additional expenses agreed in advance.

Concessions are occasionally available; please ask.

Sometimes you don’t need to spend a lot of of time understanding the past. The question is what to do next.

Therapeutic coaching is a more focused, goal-oriented way of working together. You might be facing a decision, trying to make a change, rebuilding after burnout or finding that something you genuinely want to do keeps being derailed by procrastination, anxiety, self-doubt or familiar habits.

You may know where you want to get to but have no idea how to get there, or you may simply know that something needs to change.

We’ll start by clarifying what you want and what might be standing in the way. From there, we can turn something that feels vague or overwhelming into smaller, more manageable steps.

The work is practical, but it isn’t simply about me setting targets and holding you accountable. We also pay attention to what may be happening underneath. You might want to change career while another part of you is terrified of failing. You might want better boundaries but repeatedly find yourself saying “Yes” to things you don’t want to do. You might be successful at what you do but struggle to enjoy it, or keep moving the goalposts whenever you achieve something.

Those contradictions are often useful.

Compared with psychotherapy, therapeutic coaching tends to be more structured and focused on movement towards a particular goal, but it still leaves room for exploration. Together we can identify patterns, test assumptions and work through obstacles; and if something from your past is affecting what you’re trying to do now, we don’t have to pretend it isn’t there.

The aim isn’t to turn you into a relentlessly productive version of yourself, it’s to help you work out where you want to go, what’s getting in the way of that, and what might actually help you to live a happier life.

A standard 50-minute session, either online or at my London or Bath practice, is £100.

Outcall sessions begin at £250, with any travel costs or additional expenses agreed in advance.

Concessions are occasionally available; please ask.

I am not currently taking on new couples. Please enquire for future availability.

A standard 50-minute session, either online or at my London or Bath practice, is £150.

Outcall sessions begin at £250, with any travel costs or additional expenses agreed in advance.

Concessions are occasionally available; please ask.

I am not currently taking on new collaboration/group/band clients. Please enquire for future availability.

A standard 50-minute session, either online or at my London or Bath practice, is £150.

Outcall sessions begin at £250, with any travel costs or additional expenses agreed in advance.

Concessions are occasionally available; please ask.