About Francesca
Francesca Martin is a counsellor with 17 years of experience supporting people through difficult times. She holds BACP accreditation, and she has worked in schools and counselling agencies, including services focused on alcohol-related issues. Francesca also trained to offer couples counselling and to work online and by phone.
Her background includes eleven years as a school counsellor and roles across different organisations. That experience means she is used to straightforward, practical conversations about problems people bring.
How Francesca works
She also offers supervision to other counsellors. Francesca favours a client-centred way of working. That means she listens closely and aims to help clients find their own solutions rather than giving directive advice.
Sessions are intended to be calm, honest and paced to each person’s needs. People come for many concerns such as stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief, low self-esteem, coping with life changes and addiction-related issues. She also has experience with issues like trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, parenting strains, career worries and compassion fatigue.
Sessions are available in English and offered to people in the United Kingdom. Online and telephone work is part of her practice, with options for video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling based on availability.
Francesca aims to create a respectful space where clients can talk through challenges and consider practical next steps. The focus is on understanding, choice and steady support rather than quick fixes.
Francesca lists one way of working on the entry:
What Francesca works with
The areas below are the ones Francesca selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Client-centred support online and by phone
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding. The counsellor offers an accepting, non-judgemental space and helps people reflect on what matters to them. This approach can be useful for issues like stress, low self-esteem, relationship worries and grief because it centres the person's own values and choices.Francesca's experience in schools and counselling agencies means she brings a practical, steady presence to online sessions. Finding the right approach is part of the work together - she will help clients identify what feels helpful and adapt sessions to their needs and goals. That decision is made jointly and reviewed as therapy progresses.
Online or phone sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation across distance. Phone sessions can be easier when video is not needed or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, writing through thoughts, or when people prefer not to use voice or video. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving or mobility needs and support ongoing access to a counsellor.
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