Tom Marshall
Psychological Counsellor & Psychosomatic Counsellor
Native English, trauma-informed counsellor supporting expats, changemakers and neurodivergent adults through anxiety, burnout, grief and life transitions — and a natural home for climate distress and poly relationships.
I specialise in:
About me
Most people who find me are navigating a lot at once — building a life somewhere new, caring deeply about a world that feels like it's unravelling, or being wired a little differently from the people around them. I've experienced this myself.
I’m a British-born counsellor who has called the Netherlands home for over a decade. Having built my life across cultures, I understand both the excitement and the quiet ache of wondering where and how you belong.
After graduating business school, I realised it wasn't the life I wanted and shifted my career from corporate consulting towards counselling and facilitation. I set-up an association to help young people find purpose, completed a diploma in counselling and Gabor Maté’s Compassionate Inquiry training.
Since 2019, I’ve been engaged in the climate movement — facilitating Active Hope circles to help people transform eco-anxiety and climate grief into grounded purpose. I also support clients integrating psychedelic experiences.
I’m autistic and surround myself with incredible neurodiverse humans who remind me that maybe we’re not the weird ones. I’ve been actively poly since my mid-twenties, learning both the abundance of love it can offer and the emotional complexity it invites.
These lived experiences shape the way I hold space for others exploring connection, authenticity, and belonging — whether that’s in love, in community, or on a fragile planet.
I speak:
Location:
Media Gallery
Approach
My approach is relational, somatic, and infused with curiosity. I walk beside you as a fellow human navigating the same beautifully complex world. Together, we slow things down enough to listen: to the body, to emotion, to the wisdom underneath the noise.
I draw from trauma-informed counselling, somatic integration work and a compassionate inquiry-informed approach (Dr Gabor Maté), helping to explore what’s behind recurring patterns. Sometimes we talk, sometimes we pause and breathe, sometimes we track sensations or emotion rather than stories. My role is to hold a grounded, compassionate space where you can make sense of what’s moving through you.
I especially focus on supporting people living with anxiety, burnout, grief, eco-anxiety or existential overwhelm, as well as neurodivergent folks who experience the world differently (myself included). I also support clients exploring poly relationships, where love and complexity often dance together.
Clients often tell me that therapy with me feels clear, compassionate, and real. My aim isn’t to fix you, but to help you remember the parts of you that already know how to adapt, connect, and thrive — even in a world that sometimes feels like it’s on fire.
Experience
Counsellor & Coach for Expats, Changemakers & Couples, 2017 - Present Corporate Well-Being Trainer, 2017 - Present Psychedelic Retreat Facilitator & Integration Coach, 2022 - Present
Education
Licensed Member of International Institute for Complementary Therapists
Diploma of Counselling, Australian Institute for Professional Counsellors, 2025, 1420 hours
Compassionate Inquiry One-Year Professional Training, Dr. Gabor Mate, 2025, 330 hours
Somatic Plant Medicine Integration Practitioner, 2024
Vipassana 10-Day Meditation Courses, 2023 - 2024
NLP Coaching Practitioner, Academy of Modern Applied Psychology, 2019
Certified Life Coach, Academy of Modern Applied Psychology, 2017
MSc Management of Innovation, 2016
Services
Intro Call
Individual Session
Individual Session
Insurances
