About Zoe
Zoe Powell Martin is a counsellor who uses practical, evidence-based approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety and life changes. She works in English and offers sessions online, so people can connect from different places in the United Kingdom or abroad. Zoe holds BACP registration and brings seven years of clinical experience to each conversation.
Zoe keeps sessions straightforward and focused on what matters now. She helps people notice unhelpful patterns, build coping skills and make choices aligned with their values.
How Zoe works
Her work supports issues such as depression, grief, addiction, intimacy-related worries, anger and career stress. Attachment concerns and relationship difficulties are a common focus. Zoe uses attachment-based ideas to help people understand how past experiences affect present relationships.
She also offers cognitive behavioural strategies to change upsetting thoughts and dialectical behaviour tools for emotional regulation. Zoe aims for a collaborative style. Sessions are co-constructed with the person in front of her, using shared decision-making to set direction and goals.
She blends client-centred listening with active skill building so people feel heard and also leave with practical steps. People often come for help with identity and LGBT questions, body image, neurodiversity such as autism, and issues that can follow trauma and abuse. Zoe also supports those coping with chronic health problems, caregiving stress and complicated grief.
Her approach is adaptable to what each person brings. Practical details are handled simply. Zoe offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging.
Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time and pricing varies by location and therapist availability.
Zoe lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Zoe works with
The areas below are the ones Zoe selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- 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
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps towards those values, even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It can be useful for anxiety, depression and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape how people connect now and can help with intimacy, trust and communication issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) aims to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test them with practical exercises to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Zoe will collaborate with each person to decide which methods suit their goals and preferences. Sessions are shaped together so techniques and the pace fit what feels most helpful for the individual.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to make sessions more flexible. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth alternative, and messaging formats are useful for shorter check-ins or when written reflection helps. These options make it easier to attend around work, caregiving or health commitments while keeping therapy practical and focused.
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