About Martyn
Martyn Pars offers a calm, steady presence for adults dealing with stress and anxiety. He aims to help people feel heard and understood. Sessions are mainly by video or phone with some messaging support when needed.
Martyn wants clients to leave feeling more able to manage day-to-day life. He brings four years of counselling experience, including time in a corporate employee assistance programme. That work covered issues such as depression, relationship strain, self-harm thoughts, neurodiversity concerns and gender questions.
Background and approach
He also has an interest in later-in-life diagnoses like ADD/ADHD and dyslexia and supports people exploring those possibilities. Martyn uses client-centred methods that focus on the person's own experience and a psychodynamic perspective to look at patterns from the past. He describes sessions as warm, compassionate and non-judgemental.
Mindfulness, meditation and spiritual themes can be included if the client wishes. He holds membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and accreditation with NCPS. His practice follows regular clinical supervision to reflect on his work.
Martyn sees adults aged 18 and over who live in the United Kingdom. Therapy length varies by need. Some people choose shorter work of six to twelve sessions.
Others stay longer, often a year or two, to look at deeper patterns. Packages and executive coaching are available on request and can be discussed during an initial meeting.
Therapeutic approaches and online work
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening to the person's experience and following their lead. It helps when someone needs a non-judgemental space to talk about anxiety, stress or relationship worries. Psychodynamic Therapy looks at patterns that begin in earlier life and how they show up now. This can be useful for people who want to understand repeating reactions or long-standing emotional difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and the issues you bring, and then decide collaboratively which methods to use. That shared planning means the approach can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when meeting in person is difficult. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter, audio-only check-in is preferable. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or people who prefer writing to talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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