Martha Cheesman
Practical counselling for emotional healing and growth
About Martha
Martha Cheesman is a counsellor with ten years of focused practice. She speaks English and Spanish and sees people across the United Kingdom and internationally. Her work covers a wide range of concerns, from anxiety and depression to addictions and trauma.
She also helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, career concerns, ADHD, body image and self-esteem. Martha draws on different ways of working so that sessions match what each person needs.
Background and approach
She combines attachment-based ideas with talking therapies that centre the person in the room. Practical tools from cognitive behavioural work sit alongside conversations about meaning and life choices. Her approach pays attention to how past relationships shape present feelings and reactions.
Sessions often look at patterns that keep problems going and small steps to change them. Martha also addresses the emotional impact of trauma and loss, and she supports people through major life changes. Martha describes her work as holistic.
That means she considers emotions, thoughts and a person’s broader sense of purpose. She aims to help people feel heard, recognised and more able to value themselves. People can expect a calm, straightforward style in sessions.
Martha uses listening, reflective questions and practical exercises. The goal is clearer thinking and safer ways of relating to others and to oneself.
What Martha works with
How Martha works
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships affect current patterns. In online sessions this can mean talking through those patterns, noticing how they show up now and practising new ways of connecting and responding. Client-centred therapy focuses on the person’s own experience and pace. The therapist offers empathic listening and reflection to help people find their own answers and increase self-worth. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and replace them with practical actions. Online CBT often uses short exercises, behaviour experiments and simple homework to test changes between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then choose methods together. This collaborative way means the approach can shift as needs change over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are helpful when face-to-face conversation matters. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Text and chat suit brief check-ins, written reflection or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the focus on progress and practical change.
| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- 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
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Spanish
