About Martyn
Martyn Pars offers calm, steady support for adults facing stress, anxiety, depression and life changes. He aims to create a listening space where people feel heard, understood and believed. He primarily uses video or phone sessions and sometimes supplements with messaging when needed.
He has four years of counselling experience, including time within a large corporate employee assistance programme. There he supported people with a wide range of mental health concerns from stress and relationship difficulties to self-harm and suicidal thoughts.
How Martyn works
He has particular experience with neurodiversity matters such as autism, ADD/ADHD and dyslexia, including later-in-life diagnosis questions. Martyn is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and holds NCPS credentials. He also has training for online work and is listed at level 1 with the Association of Counselling and Therapy Online.
He meets monthly with a senior psychotherapist for clinical supervision. His style is warm, non-judgemental and compassionate, with an emphasis on developing an empathetic relationship. Sessions can include coaching, mindfulness or meditation where useful, and he offers longer-term or shorter-term work depending on need.
Sessions are offered to adults aged 18 and over who are located in the United Kingdom. Martyn runs video calls and telephone sessions as his main formats, and can provide additional messaging support when suitable.
Martyn lists 2 ways of working on the entry:
What Martyn works with
The areas below are the ones Martyn selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Registers | BACP, NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online sessions
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on creating a supportive, non-judgemental relationship where the client leads the pace and topic of work. This approach helps people feel heard and trusted while they talk through stress, anxiety, relationship concerns and self-esteem issues.Psychodynamic Therapy looks at patterns from the past that influence present feelings and behaviour. It can be useful for understanding attachment, abandonment, persistent relationship patterns and deeper emotional issues that keep repeating.
Finding the right way of working is part of the process and will be decided together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and will adapt the approach as work progresses in collaboration with the client.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video works well for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and messaging suits brief updates or when writing feels more natural. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties and travel, and allow people across the UK to access consistent support without needing to travel to an office.
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