About Martin
Martin Ollington is a counsellor with 16 years of professional experience based in the United Kingdom. He helps people who are struggling with stress and anxiety, addictions, grief and loss, and depression. He believes people already hold strengths that can help them move through difficult times and offers steady support as they take the first steps towards change.
He works in a warm, straightforward way and focuses on practical conversations.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to make feelings easier to understand and manage. Martin encourages people to try small changes between meetings and notices what works for each person. His approach draws on several established methods, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, along with attachment-informed and emotionally focused work.
He adapts these to fit each person’s situation rather than following a fixed script. Martin has a BACP credential, which is recorded as part of his professional details. He offers sessions in English and is open to working with international clients.
Appointment formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules sessions according to availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time and fees vary with location and therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thinking patterns and testing them with practical experiments. It often helps with low mood, anxiety, sleep and unhelpful habits.Finding the right approach is something the therapist does together with the client. Martin will talk about different ways of working, try methods that feel useful, and adjust the plan based on the person’s goals and experience. The process is collaborative and paced to what the client prefers.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls provide a near face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat suits short check-ins, and text messaging lets people reflect in writing. These options give practical flexibility for people juggling work, family or mobility needs, and they let therapists use ACT or CBT techniques just as effectively across different formats.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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