Natasha Kottegoda-Breden

Natasha is a British therapist. Born and raised in the UK she has lived and worked in many different countries across the globe, adding unique cultural insights to her clinical work. She believes that we are all different and she champions this belief using a client centred therapeutic approach that tailors her extensive training to best suit the differing needs of her clients.
As Carl Jung said, “there is no recipe for living that suits all cases,”

Natasha also believes in practising active therapy, much of her work with individuals is action orientated where clients are encouraged to use the tools given to reflect/practice between sessions and take responsibility for their progress. This way, clients can take charge of their progress and achieve the results they want by gaining personal insight into what needs to change or evolve to make their life and their relationships more meaningful and fulfilled.

Natasha works with Couples, Individuals and Teenagers. She has a lot of passion and experience with helping couples improve their communication, getting right to the core of their emotional state and helping them to gain a greater understanding of their individual needs. She can help couples learn to manage their conflict and differences so they are able to self-reflect, express themselves more effectively and begin to repair present and past hurts. Using these tools, if the couple are willing, they can build a brighter future together with common goals, shared values, greater trust and commitment. She uses Gottman couples training, Emotionally Focussed Therapy (EFT) and CBT techniques to help couples become UNSTUCK and to change the unproductive interactive patterns they have ended up in which has prevented them from moving forward.

Natasha has had a long personal therapy journey herself so she is very passionate about the work that she does and the outcome. She likes to make her sessions warm and engaging, challenging in a good way and ultimately rewarding.

Natasha has been working in the fields of counselling and coaching since 2011.

In addition to a Masters in Counselling, she has extensive training in a variety of therapy modalities. She holds certifications in the following:
* Gottman Couples Therapy Level 1 and 2
* Gottman Affairs & Trauma
* Schema Therapy Level 1 and 2,
* Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Depression and Anxiety, and ACT for Adolescents.
* Emotionally Focussed therapy (EFT)
* Attachment Theory with Diana Poole Heller
* Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) from the Beck Institute
* Solutions Focused Therapy
* Life Coaching from the Coach Training Institute (CTI)
* NLP Diploma.



Natasha helps clients struggling with relationship breakdown, anxiety, depression, personality disorders, grief and loss, identity, sexuality, burnout, low self-esteem, trauma, finding a sense of self, assertive communication and goal setting.

Natasha’s professional experience also includes 15 years of corporate roles in business, recruitment, and Human Resources from the UK where she was involved in coaching and advising senior executives on how to reach their full potential in the workplace.


Before arriving in Singapore, Natasha worked as a school counsellor at an International School in Tokyo delivering personal therapy to Middle School and High School students. Here she gained valuable experience supporting teenagers with their mental health and offering support and advice to parents and families.

While in Tokyo, Natasha also worked as a volunteer on the National Crisis Helpline, a free, confidential counselling service available to anyone experiencing difficulties in their mental health, or worried about the mental health of someone they know.

Natasha grew up in the UK in a family that loved to travel and experience the world. Following this passion she now has first-hand experience of being an expatriate and moving her young family between 6 different countries, having to adapt to new and complex cultures, contrasting educational systems, new friends and with each move, a different life from before. Because of her varied life and work experience Natasha feels well placed to help her clients deal with change and to embrace the challenges and rewards that this can bring about.

In her spare time, Natasha enjoys league tennis, playing bridge, reading and hanging with her teenage kids, preferably on a beach!