Martha Ash
Person-centred counsellor offering practical support
About Martha
Martha Ash is a counsellor who focuses on helping people make sense of themselves and their situations. She works with individuals coping with anxiety, stress, relationship difficulties, grief, addiction, changes in life, low mood and self-esteem. Martha offers a calm, accepting space where clients can bring hard things and be listened to without judgement.
She draws on person-centred, or client-centred, ways of working. That means she pays close attention to the relationship in the room - honesty, empathy and genuine connection guide her.
Background and approach
Sessions are paced to suit each person rather than following a fixed script. When helpful, she uses practical techniques alongside person-centred work to support change. These can include simple cognitive-behavioural ideas, awareness of bodily signals, and broader wellbeing approaches to build coping skills.
The aim is to combine understanding with steps that make daily life easier. Martha has three years of experience and is registered with the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She works with a wide range of concerns including family and parenting strains, eating and body image issues, trauma and attachment difficulties, and long-term health or caregiving pressures.
Sessions are offered in English and take place online in the United Kingdom. People can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging depending on what suits them. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange sessions based on the therapist's schedule.
What Martha works with
How Martha works
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Sessions & fees
How Martha’s Approach Works Online
Client-centred therapy focuses on the relationship between counsellor and client. It involves listening closely, reflecting what you say, and offering empathy so people can find their own solutions. This approach can be useful for anxiety, low mood, relationship worries and navigating life changes.Alongside that, Martha may introduce straightforward cognitive-behavioural ideas to help with unhelpful thoughts and behaviour patterns. She also uses somatic awareness to help people notice how their body reacts to stress and to learn simple ways to reduce tension and feel steadier day to day.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Martha will discuss goals and preferences with each person and together decide which methods feel most helpful. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is helpful for richer conversation and non-verbal cues, phone calls can fit into work breaks or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to access therapy from wherever you are in the United Kingdom and to choose the format that fits your routine and comfort.
| 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
- 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 counselling
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
