Ed Fellows is a psychotherapist, counsellor, and supervisor, Msc. qualified and UKCP accredited. He has worked in the NHS since 2000, at the South London and Maudsley Hospital (SLaM) where he is currently a senior complex trauma psychotherapist and supervisor. He has led NHS trauma and bereavement services, and facilitated groups on in-patient wards for over 20years.
He runs a private practice in South East London offering psychotherapy sessions as well as supervision. He specialises in supporting survivors of trauma, and also has extensive experience of helping people manage issues such as abuse, attachment and relationship difficulties, and bereavement.
Ed is a trauma psychotherapy trainer and supervisor with Relational Change, an examiner at Metanoia Institute, presents at conferences and facilitates workshops.
He has over 20 years’ experience as a yoga practitioner and meditator and is a trained yoga and mindfulness teacher. He offers trauma informed yoga sessions and workshops upon request.
Ed Fellows runs a private practice two days a week in Herne Hill South East London. He offers individual psychotherapy counselling sessions that last an hour.
Ed supports people to manage issues such as depression, anxiety, anger, abuse, PTSD, relationship issues and bereavement. He specialises in supporting adults with distressing childhood experiences and symptoms of complex trauma (cPTSD).
If you are interested in discussing your needs or booking in for an initial meeting please use the contact form on this website.
Or you can phone Ed on: 07515 487 718
Ed Fellows is MSc qualified as a Gestalt Psychotherapist. He trained at the Metanoia Institute, a leading centre for psychotherapy training in the UK. Ed specialises in trauma therapy and has many years experience of working with adult survivors of trauma both privately and in the NHS. He is also trained in EMDR, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy.
About Gestalt Psychotherapy
Gestalt Psychotherapy is a form of talking therapy that was developed by Fritz and Laura Perls between the 1940's and 1960's. Gestalt has continued to develop and change over the decades. Gestalt therapy is now is characterised by its emphasis on creating a supportive therapeutic relationship where past difficulties and stuck patterns can be safely focussed on in the present .
Past situations are understood through the way they influence our present feelings and relationships. Past traumatic memories may need to be worked through, but this is always done at your own pace and when you feel safe enough and able to use your own resources and the support provided by therapy. Estabilshing the felt sense of safety in therapy is always a priority when working with trauma.
Gestalt overlaps with and has influenced other therapies such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), developmental approaches, body awareness and mindfulness practices, as well as trauma therapies such as Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. The emphasis of your therapy is worked out with you depending on what you find most useful.
Ed Fellows offers clinical supervision privately and within the NHS. He places a relational emphasis on supervision. As well as working cognitively, he helps supervisees to recognise their own and clients’ emotional body processes, therefore accessing dynamics that are out of conscious awareness.
Supervision can feel exposing and trust is an essential basis for supervision where professional boundaries and responsibilities can be managed within a mutually respectful relationship. He is committed to managing the difficult issues that arise in supervision such as shame and conflicts, whilst appreciating when the therapy is going well.
Supervisees often come to Ed Fellows because they would like more support in working with trauma survivors.
Please use the contact page if you would like to enquire about supervision sessions.
Ed Fellows is regularly invited to speak and run workshops on how we embody our emotional and cognitive experiences. Selected seminars and workshops include:
Trauma Processing- Contemporary Trauma Practice: Mind, Body and Relationship. Relational Change; on-going trainings since 2015 http://www.relationalchange.org/pdf/RC-TraumaCertificateFlyer2017.pdf
Yoga and the Embodied Relational Self: Seminar at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, October 2014
Handling Yoga Participants' Deep Feelings, and Is there a place for counselling in a yoga session, or yoga in a counselling relationship?Yoga, the Brain and Mental Health: Confer Conference, University of London, November 2012
Maintaining Embodied Support in the Healing Relationship. The Wellbeing of the Therapist. Confer Conference, Dartington Hall, Devon, July 2012
Yoga and the Movement Towards Healing. Spirituality, Recovery & Wellbeing Conference: Heythrop College, London, March 2012
Your Body As Teacher. Yoga & Health Magazine, May 2009
