Leo Martyn

Leo Martyn is an insightful and highly skilled counsellor with extensive professional experience, who is compassionate and outcome-focused in his counselling approach. He is a member of both the Australian Counselling Association and the AASW and has a substantial background in private practice. Leo specialises in providing effective therapeutic support to adults and couples, and is dedicated to helping his clients develop the courage, insight and confidence needed to make lasting positive changes in their lives and beyond.

Leo is strongly committed to providing his clients with practical personal strategies that increase their capacity to meet life’s challenges. Leo provides a non-judgmental, confidential space where his clients may speak freely of their concerns and explore possible pathways forward. He has extensive expertise helping clients resolve a broad range of personal and interpersonal issues and stressors related to anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship and many other concerns. 

Leo's practice is centred on a range of humanistic and evidence-based counselling approaches, tailoring sessions to meet the unique needs of each client. Therapeutic techniques and approaches Leo uses include: Gottman Couples Method, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Mindfulness-Based Therapy, Somatic approaches and Gestalt Therapy along with Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy and Solution Focused Therapy. Counselling with Leo is a respectful, dynamic and client-centred experience, which seeks to catalyse opportunities for authentic, lasting personal growth and change.

• Graduate Diploma of Psychotherapy & Counselling
• Master of Social Work
• Gottman Couples Therapy - Level 3