About Martha
Martha Burling is a counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety and difficulty with addictions. She also supports those dealing with grief, low self-esteem, depression and changes in motivation. Martha works to make the first step easier and acknowledges that starting therapy can take real courage.
She aims to create an open, non-judgemental space where people can talk about difficult thoughts and feelings. Sessions are led by the person's needs and paced to what feels workable day to day.
Background and approach
Practical skills and simple experiments are often used between appointments to try out new ways of coping. Martha combines a few different approaches depending on the issue. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to help people notice thoughts without getting stuck.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques are used to spot patterns and try small changes in thinking and behaviour. Attachment-based ideas inform how she looks at close relationships and how past hurts can shape current reactions. Client-centred principles guide the way she listens and responds, keeping the person's own goals central to the work.
She holds BACP as a professional credential and has six years of experience working in the United Kingdom. Sessions are offered in English and she provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging to suit different needs.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It encourages values-based action so small changes align with what matters to the person, which can be useful for anxiety and low mood.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviours. It supports practical steps such as sleep routines, activity scheduling and thought records that are easy to use between sessions.
Martha treats the choice of approach as a shared decision. She will talk through options and tailor the work to your goals, needs and pace rather than imposing a single method. That collaborative process helps find what feels most helpful over time.
Online sessions offer flexibility for different situations. Video calls make it possible to work in real time and to use worksheets together. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or suit lower bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for written reflections and brief support during busy days. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life or ongoing treatment plans.
Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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