About Martha
Martha Ash brings three years of hands-on counselling experience to her practice. She works with people who want clearer thinking and steadier feelings. Her style is warm and grounded, with a focus on honest connection and steady support.
Martha helps with stress and anxiety, low mood and depression, grief and loss, and problems with self-esteem. She also supports people dealing with relationship strains, parenting challenges, addictions, and major life changes.
How Martha works
Other areas she works with include trauma and abuse, eating concerns, anger, and career uncertainty. Her approach centres on client-centred therapy, which puts the person and the relationship at the heart of sessions. Martha listens without judgement and encourages people to lead the pace and content of their work.
This helps people feel heard and understood before practical steps are taken. Martha is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, which she lists as BACP. She offers conversations that aim to be straightforward and useful, not full of jargon.
Practical ideas are introduced when they match what the person wants. Sessions can be focused short-term work or longer, open-ended exploration depending on needs. Martha is clear about limits and welcomes questions about how she works.
She encourages people to try a first session and decide if the relationship feels right for them.
Martha lists one way of working on the entry:
What Martha works with
The areas below are the ones Martha selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Martha’s client-centred approach works online
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening, empathy and building a reliable relationship. In practice this means the counsellor follows the person’s lead, offering reflective listening and gentle prompts to help make sense of feelings. It is well suited to anxiety, low mood, self-esteem and relationship concerns.Martha aims to work collaboratively to find the best approach for each person. She will discuss goals, preferences and what feels useful in early sessions, and adapt as needed so the work stays relevant and manageable.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat and text-based messaging, which makes fitting therapy around work, family life and travel easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins, while live chat and messaging offer short, flexible exchanges that suit busy days. These formats aim to increase access and make it simpler to keep building momentum between sessions.
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