Eszter Ivan

‘You can not stop the waves but you can learn how to surf.’ (Jon Kabat-Zinn)

About my journey


I am a trauma-informed, embodied psychotherapist (ADMPUK, UKCP) and clinical supervisor, offering in-person sessions near London Bridge and Haggerston Station, as well as online. My work integrates body, mind and soul, offering people a holding space to gain awareness, explore and move beyond their entanglements, relational complexities, traumas, losses, and stuckness with depth, care and curiosity. Alongside my private practise, I support dancers as a student counsellor at Irie! Dance Theatre Company.

How did my professional story begin and land for now?

I started my journey as a psychologist. After completing my studies in Hungary, I worked in different rehabilitation centers. I supported people living with visual impairment, individually and in groups, to help them improve their quality of life after losing their vision. 

My ongoing curiosity led me to train in integrative hypnotherapy, deepening my understanding of altered states of consciousness. Later, after moving to London, my professional identity as a psychologist merged with my lifelong relationship to movement and dance. In 2015, I qualified as a dance movement psychotherapist at the University of Roehampton and have since worked across hospitals, schools and community organisations with adolescents and adults experiencing mental health challenges, learning disabilities and complex behaviours.

Over time, my practice has continued to evolve toward embodied, transpersonal and integrative approaches. I completed further training at the Institute of Embodied Psychotherapy, became a grief recovery method specialist, trained as a transformational coach at the Animas Centre for Coaching and became a clinical supervisor (trained at Relational Change). I am currently on a journey of learning about the systematic and family constellation approaches.

Alongside my clinical work, I spent six years as Head of People and Culture in the hospitality industry, advocating for wellbeing, dignity and fair treatment at work.

I completed my PhD at the University of Roehampton, where my research focused on challenging marginalisation, amplifying the voices of people living with persistent physical symptoms and investigating the impact of the Moving Pieces Approach. This research continues to inform my clinical practice, strengthening my commitment to social justice and relational ethics.

Alongside my professional training, I bring many years of personal therapeutic work, including non-dualist and transpersonal psychotherapy, psychodrama groups, and exploration of transgenerational trauma through systemic constellation and shamanic approaches. These lived experiences deeply inform how I work—allowing space for complexity, ambiguity and the wisdom held beyond linear narratives.