Why we’ve created this for you
OUR STORY - Therapy for Everybody
We each have our unique journey in life and our challenges to face and lessons to learn. There are many tools available to us along the way to aid and support this journey. We believe therapy is for everybody, it’s just about finding the right match for you.
Matthew and Belinda are examples of this. After each facing their own challenges they chose different paths to get them to a balanced place. These are the tools of psychotherapeutic counselling and meditation which are also extremely complimentary.
Matthew’s journey focused on psychotherapeutic counselling, with meditation playing a supporting role and Belinda mainly meditation with meditative philosophy and teachings providing a change in her mindset.
They realised that both therapy and meditation make a very solid combination in anyone’s life journey. Meditation provides us perspective, a stillness, a witnessing consciousness to view our patterns from. Counselling and psychotherapy provides a space to reflect upon life's situations and patterns and the opportunity for us to see our life and interactions with others in a new way.
Meditation can bring us to a still point, when life is rushing too fast to process. It can help us to centre and ground before a session and after a session to absorb the work that has been done during therapy.
Listen Up Therapy was born out of this realisation. It represents the importance of being heard by others, having a safe space to work through life, and also learning to listen to ourselves and life itself through meditation.
Listen Up refers to our therapy sessions.
Listen In refers to our meditation offerings.
OUR FOUNDERS
About Belinda
Belinda Matwali is a trauma informed personal growth mentor, meditation teacher and electronic music enthusiast. She is a mentee of Dr Gabor Mate after completing his 240 hour trauma informed Compassionate Inquiry training. She has over a decade of training in meditation and spiritual psychology.
Belinda’s work has been featured in The Metro and The Times and she’s collaborated with brands such as Deliciously Ella and Lush as well as running retreats globally.
Clients come to work with Belinda to move through anxiety, addiction issues, and improve creativity, as well as develop a mindfulness and meditation practice.
About Matthew
Matthew Benjamin is a psychotherapeutic counsellor, who worked in the music industry for over thirty years before training to be a therapist. His experience in the creative realm and music world is vast. Matthew has taken the path to work in therapeutic practices, with a deep desire to facilitate helping others to learn more about themselves, to develop, and grow.
Matthew works online with clients in his private practice and has been working externally in many different areas of counselling, from addiction to bereavement.