Matthew Darby

I work with individuals and couples facing a wide range of challenges — whether you’re living with low mood or depression, feeling emotionally overwhelmed, navigating anxiety or grief, healing from trauma, managing chronic illness, or feeling stuck in your relationships or inner life.

With experience in both NGOs and private practice, I’ve supported people living with chronic illness and understand how long-term health conditions can affect self-image, relationships, and resilience. I also work with survivors of trauma, offering sensitivity and care to this deeply personal process, as well as with men navigating a variety of life challenges.

My therapeutic style is flexible and integrative. Drawing on humanistic and person-centred principles, psychodynamic insights, cognitive techniques, existential reflection, and mindfulness-based approaches, I create a collaborative space that fosters understanding, growth, and healing — always tailored to your needs.

When you step into therapy with me, you step into a space where you are welcome exactly as you are. Together, we can work towards:

• Building a foundation of safety and acceptance so that you can speak openly without fear of judgment.
• Developing a deeper understanding of yourself — why you feel the way you do, and how to move toward what matters most.
• Strengthening your resilience to meet life’s challenges with steadiness and self-compassion.
• Healing from trauma at a pace that feels safe and respectful.
• Learning practical and emotional strategies for living well alongside chronic illness.
• Deepening connection in your relationship, whether you come alone or with a partner.
• Finding new perspectives when you feel stuck, uncertain, or in transition.

Alongside my professional training, I bring personal insight from over 30 years of partnership with my wife and the experience of raising three adult children. Life is rarely simple — but it can become more manageable and meaningful with the right support.

You don’t need to have everything figured out before we begin. You are welcome here, just as you are.