Smartphones are deeply woven into the fabric of our everyday lives. From work to entertainment to staying in touch with loved ones, they’ve become essential tools. But for parents, educators, and therapists, the rise in screen time among children is a growing concern. At Rebel Therapies, we’ve had countless conversations about this topic, both in …
Petra Salva began her career in youth and community work after graduating with a BA Hons in Community and Youth Studies in Lancaster. Since then, she has accumulated 30 successful years’ experience working with young people and adults. She is best known for her work and contribution working in the third sector in the UK and abroad. Specifically leading and designing projects within Homeless charities and influencing the Government, local authorities, and the London Mayors Office around national and local rough sleeping strategies and has significant experience in leadership roles and managing large scale change.
She has been at the forefront of developing services that directly support some of the most destitute people in our society and in 2019 she was awarded an OBE for her years of contribution and impact in this field.
Petra is passionate about helping people and organisations to grow and develop their skills and aspirations. She is a qualified coach and mentor with many years of experience in delivering training and working one to one or in groups.
Martin is an experienced accredited psychodynamic psychotherapist with many years of working with and helping adults. Martin believes in creating a safe space and a trusting relationship can help us think and explore together the reasons you might be looking for help and counselling. He has worked with many ranges of anxiety, depression, trauma, and loss. He has a gentle, sensitive approach and would welcome meeting you to see if he can help you too.
Martin is a fully qualified psychodynamic psychotherapist accredited with the BPC (British Psychoanalytic Council). He offers individual therapy to adults and young people. He is also a registered member of the BACP (MBACP).
He has been offering individual therapy and counselling for many years in both private practise and within organisations. He is currently working with the Counselling Foundation and has previously worked at Mind in Barnet for many years. Martin also worked as part of the Grief Encounter adult bereavement counselling team.
Richard is an experienced mentor and executive coach with a record of accomplishment of working with large corporate organisations supporting key career transitions and continuous professional development. Richard also mentors technology entrepreneurs and is the co-founder of a software start-up company.
Transition Coaching is a key focus, supporting clients who are new to company, function or corporate title. Supporting senior promotion candidates through the selection and evaluation processes and then guiding them to establish senior peer-to-peer relationships, personal gravitas and cross-functional teamworking.
Richard’s style of coaching is both supportive and challenging. He is passionate about working with the “whole person” and believes that career transitions are only a single aspect of an individual’s current situation. Exploration of any “limiting beliefs” and utilisation of creative coaching techniques help visualise the target state.
Shabazz has over two decades of working as a behavioural change specialist and coach to hundreds of academic and private clients. His unique style of engaging, enquiring, determining goals, and activating real change and success, has changed the lives of each of his clients.
He helps clients experience empowerment when resolving current issues, creating coping strategies, and acknowledges client talents and gifts, encouraging them to find new and innovative ways to utilize them.
Shabazz works relationally with his clients, allowing for a development of understanding and alliance, which creates the structure and safety for clients to be themselves and access their true self. Clients are then free to create new goals and strategies for success, but with a wholly positive regard for themselves.
Releasing Emotion, Building Resilience, Uncovering Joy
Melanie has dedicated the last decade delivering to her clients as a therapist, mentor and coach.
Melanie offers a bespoke mix of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), also known as Tapping, combined with NLP, Hypnotherapy and Life Coaching. She delivers individualised therapy and coaching to an international clientele with varying ages, cultures, and requirements.
Melanie has helped with a range of presentations including trauma, anxiety, depression, chronic fatigue, physical pain, phobias and addictions, relationships, and self-esteem. The value of this kind of therapy is that it can be applied widely and have rapid, measurable results.
Her work as an integrative therapist draws upon her various academic and informal learning, across countries and cultures, and across various professional and personal roles. In her experience within private practice, she has honed her techniques in creating a solution-based, individualised service for each client to explore their perceived inner and outer world with safety and curiosity.
Melanie encourages her clients to try the cutting-edge therapy that she offers. The work with her clients has the potential to be very empowering.
Munur has dedicated the past few years in researching the impact of screens and their addictive nature on the unsuspecting world population. His knowledge and expertise in this area has naturally directed him to create a programme to help understand and combat the problems screen addiction poses.
An experienced mentor and coach, Munur is passionate about ‘awakening’ your senses to how organisations create applications with their number one requirement and desire being capturing your attention at any cost.
Screen addiction is an ever-increasing problem and now at an epic scale, especially among teens and young children. Anxiety, stress, loneliness, bullying, harassment (mental and physical), polarisation, misinformation, racism, sexism, hate, self-harm, and suicide are some of the by-products of screen addiction.
As parents and guardians, now is the time to take responsible action to help your children take back control of their lives, rebuild relationships, and create a positive, happier, healthier lifestyle.
Over the past few years, he has spent his time helping parents and their children overcome their addiction to screens.
Munur has created this programme using his experience alongside in-depth research to help parents coach their children to take back control of their time, and their lives.
