| Works with: | Individuals |
| Sessions: | Face-to-Face, Online |
| Languages: | English, Polish |
| Locations: | Clapham |
| Adolescents (13-18 years): | £80 |
| Children (4-12 years): | £80 |
Magda Florek
Magda Florek is an art psychotherapist with over 15 years of experience working in London, offering therapy for children and or young people who are struggling with their feelings, behaviour, or emotional wellbeing.
Magda is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and is an accredited member of the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT). She also holds a Master’s degree in Art Psychotherapy from Goldsmiths University of London.
Magda has worked therapeutically with children, young people, and families across a range of settings. Her long-term experience includes sustained work within schools and clinical environments, where she has supported young people over time through complex emotional and developmental challenges. Alongside her private practice, she currently works as a school counsellor, giving her ongoing, day-to-day insight into how emotional wellbeing impacts learning, peer relationships, behaviour, and self-esteem.
Her short as well as long term focused work includes supporting children and young people through specific life events and transitions, such as bereavement, family changes, and school-related anxieties (included but not limited to exams and or school performance, social anxiety and peer related pressure). She has also worked within a hospice setting, offering short-term art therapy interventions to bereaved children and young people.
Magda’s approach is warm, calm, and collaborative and is informed by knowledge of child development and attachment theory. She works at each person’s pace and builds a trusting relationship of safety and understanding within which they can explore different parts of themselves.
She offers the options of art therapy, play based therapy and talk therapy depending on the preferences and developmental stage of the client. Each client needs different things at a given time, therefore flexibility and responsiveness is key to building a trusting relationship.
Collaboration between Magda and her young clients is aimed at helping them to explore their own strengths and resilience, and being able to take that outside into their own lives.
Magda also offers parent consultations, helping parents understand their child’s emotional world and their own responses to it, and co-creating some practical ways to respond at home.
Magda took considerable care as a therapist for our neurodiverse teenage daughter over many months. With the result that our daughter’s anxiety reduced a lot and her self esteem was noticeably boosted. We’re very grateful and heartily endorse Magda’s skill.
Magda was an excellent art therapist for our daughter aged 8. Over many sessions she helped her navigate some tricky friendship dynamics, work tougher he own feelings and give her confidence to start managing conflict herself. This greatly helped her self esteem. Magda was open and supportive and communicated well with us as parents throughout.
Magda supported my 4yo son process his grief. She took the time to get to know me and the situation before the sessions began and made my son feel very comfortable during his time with her. She is very knowledgeable about working with children and made him feel at ease, enabling him to express himself through play.
Had a good experience with The Awareness Centre when my son did some counselling with Magda Florek in preparation for secondary school. Her approach through art worked really well with our son, who is on the quiet side, and she had some practical advice and reassuring commentary at the end of our round of sessions.
