Martha Cheesman, BACP
10 years in practice
Martha Cheesman is a counsellor with a focus on helping people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, addictions and life transitions.
License and registration
- BACP
- 392231 · expires February 2026
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English, Spanish
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Martha
Martha Cheesman is a counsellor with a focus on helping people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, addictions and life transitions. She works with concerns that include grief, intimacy and self-esteem, as well as sleep and eating problems. Martha also supports people dealing with career strain, compassion fatigue and ADHD.
She communicates in English and Spanish and practises from the United Kingdom. Martha draws on a mix of approaches to match what each person needs.
Background and approach
She pays attention to the connections between mind, body and spirit. Sessions are aimed at helping people feel heard, understood and more able to cope with painful experiences. Her background includes ten years of experience working in a more specialised clinical role, built on an overall twenty years in helping roles.
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP. That registration is listed as BACP in her credentials. In practice Martha uses techniques that suit trauma recovery and day-to-day coping.
She brings mindfulness and existential thinking into sessions to help people find purpose and clearer self-regard. The work often focuses on building self-love and sense of worth, step by step. People can expect a straightforward, person-centred style.
Conversations are practical and paced to the individual. The aim is to help people recognise patterns, process difficult feelings and try new ways of relating to themselves and others.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Martha lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Martha names
- Jungian Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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Online support
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Jungian Therapy looks at personal stories, dreams and symbols to help people make sense of major life shifts and inner conflicts; it can be useful for exploring identity, purpose and long-standing patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current connection and trust, helping people address intimacy, abandonment and communication difficulties. Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of the work, using empathic listening and acceptance to support self-discovery and self-worth.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs and then adapt methods as therapy progresses. Sometimes different approaches are combined so the work matches what matters most to the individual.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is good for in-depth conversation and reading non-verbal cues, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat or messaging can be useful for quick check-ins, short planning sessions or when writing helps expression. Working online makes it easier to fit regular sessions into a busy life and lets people choose the format that best supports their progress.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of issues does she support?
Martha works with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting stress, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD and compassion fatigue.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is person-centred and practical, with attention to mind, body and spirit. Conversations aim to help people feel heard and to build self-worth through tailored techniques like mindfulness and existential reflection.
What is her professional background?
She has worked in helping roles for twenty years and in a more specialised clinical capacity for the last ten years. That experience informs her blended approach to counselling.
Where is she based and what are her credentials?
She practises from the United Kingdom and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP in her credentials.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and she also works with international clients.
What session formats are available online?
Therapy can take place by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does the cost and billing work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
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