About Me

I’m Marteka, combining EMDR and Parts Work For Self Leaders

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Hello! I'm Marteka Swaby

Blended EMDR For Self Leaders

Supporting leaders under pressure to lead themselves with steadiness

I work with high-performing leaders who are outwardly capable and composed, yet internally stretched, tense, or disconnected from themselves.

My work supports you to understand and lead your internal system, the protective patterns and parts that drive over-functioning, hyper-vigilance, people-pleasing, perfectionism, emotional shutdown, and burnout under pressure.

Drawing on parts-based work, nervous system awareness, and trauma-informed practice, I help you to move from reactivity to self-led choice. My approach is grounded, compassionate, and structured, making change feel safe, contained, and sustainable, even in complex, high-stakes work environments.

My Expertise

My Approach & Values

Structured support for individuals and organisations

Marteka offers full-day intensives for senior leaders, executives and boards, alongside weekly and group-based programmes. Her work integrates EMDR with parts-informed approaches to support regulation, clarity, and self-leadership.

For organisations, we deliver contained, workplace-appropriate interventions using early trauma protocols such as G-TEP and R-TEP. These provide a structured way to stabilise distress and restore functioning without requiring personal disclosure or detailed recounting of events.

Designed with governance in mind

All work is delivered within a clear clinical and ethical governance framework, including suitability checks, informed consent, risk assessment, and safeguarding awareness. This approach supports organisations to:

    • Demonstrate proactive duty of care
    • Respond responsibly following incidents
    • Reduce litigation, absence, and reputational risk
    • Strengthen leadership resilience and continuity

 

My Experience
  • Coach, Psychotherapist, and EMDR Practitioner
  • Post-incident and stabilisation support
  • Early trauma intervention protocols such as R-TEP and G-TEP
  • Weekly and group-based programmes
  • One-day EMDR immersive intensives
  • Ongoing weekly support
  • EDI focus, including Misogynoir & intersectionality
    What This Approach Supports
    • Clearer decision-making under pressure
    • Reduced reactivity and emotional shutdown
    • Healthier boundaries and sustainable leadership
    • Improved capacity to lead without running on adrenaline
    • Improved organisational confidence post-incident

    I Work With Individuals, Teams and Organisations

    Individuals

    For Senior Leaders & Managers in high responsibility roles, Safeguarding Leads. Individuals exposed to repeated pressure or critical incidents and need one to one support

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    Teams

    These immersive days are designed for individuals and teams following high-impact incidents. A full day delivered one-to-one or with your team

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    Organisations

    Organisations exposed to high pressure, vicarious trauma, safeguarding systems, health and social care, frontline leadership, organisations navigating restructures and crises

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    “After a high impact incident, the team was fragile and reactive. The support gave us a safe structure to stabilise, recover, and rebuild how we work under pressure. We now have shared language, an escalation and repair plan, and a noticeable lift in confidence and cohesion.”

    Rachel, NHS Regional Director

    "I built this from nothing. I’m the face, the engine, and the emergency contact. The Immersive Day did what months of circling could not. We mapped the parts running the show, named the patterns and shifted what was keeping me stuck. I left with a clear plan and I felt like myself again, grounded, decisive, and back in the driver’s seat. "

    Derek, Technology SaaS Company

    "A merger isn’t just a business transition — it’s a season of uncertainty where leaders are asked to stay steady while their own ground is shifting. In this space, the temptation is to over-function, over-prove. The weekly sessions helped me calm my nervous system and respond with more choice. I am sleeping better, thinking clearer, and I can switch off at the weekend, instead of constantly being in work mode."

    Chief of Staff, Healthcare

    Contact Me

    Ask a question or book an appointment below. For emergencies call 911 or visit your nearest hospital

    (020) 3289 8196

    307 Euston Rd, London, NW1 3AW

    [email protected]

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