Bryanna Martin Smith
Practical support for relationship and life changes
About Bryanna
Bryanna Martin Smith offers calm, practical support for people facing relationship strain, parenting pressures, grief, trauma and everyday stress. She speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps feel easier for someone who is unsure about therapy. Bryanna introduces clear, manageable ways to move forward while recognising each person's strengths and experience.
With 18 years of professional experience, Bryanna has worked with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, anger and intimacy-related difficulties.
Background and approach
She also helps people with complex family issues such as blended family dynamics, divorce and separation, and communication problems. Additional focus areas include body image, isolation and end-of-life care for those facing hospice or geriatric concerns. Her approach begins by listening to the story as the client tells it and identifying practical goals together.
Sessions concentrate on small, achievable changes and on building coping strategies that fit daily life. The emphasis is on straightforward conversation and real-world steps rather than jargon or long theoretical explanations. People can expect a collaborative, respectful working style that looks for strengths to build on.
Bryanna supports exploration of painful experiences such as trauma or abandonment while helping clients find more manageable ways to respond in the present. She also assists with career-related stress and decisions when work becomes a source of strain. Therapy offered in English and delivered from the United Kingdom.
The registration shown is BACP, which stands for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Bryanna encourages clients to take their time when deciding and to start with a short conversation to see if the fit feels right.
What Bryanna works with
Sessions & fees
How evidence-based approaches work online
Many therapists use evidence-based techniques that focus on understanding thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Cognitive approaches look at unhelpful thinking patterns and teach simple skills to challenge and reframe those thoughts, which can help with anxiety, low mood and self-esteem. Behavioural methods concentrate on changing actions that keep problems going, such as avoidance or unhelpful routines, and aim to create small behavioural steps that build confidence.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences and the issues they want to address. Together they will try things out and adjust the plan if something does not fit.
Online sessions can be delivered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls let people meet face to face when useful, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat works for shorter check-ins or for people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments while still using the same therapeutic techniques that work in person.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 18 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
