Victoria Martin, BACP

Counsellor Victoria Martin is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) with five years of practice in the United Kingdom. She works with stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, family matters and parenting issues, alongside a wide range of other problems such as grief, eating concerns and low self-esteem. Sessions are carried out in English, and international clients are accepted.

Victoria uses approaches that centre on the person in front of her. That means she focuses on listening, reflecting and helping people notice their own strengths. She combines this with emotionally focused work to look at how feelings shape close relationships and with psychodynamic ideas about how past patterns can influence present behaviour.

In a typical session she will invite the client to describe what matters most right now. Conversations look at everyday pressures, patterns in relationships, and coping strategies that can be tried between sessions. There is practical attention to communication problems, body image, guilt and shame, and other concerns listed in her speciality areas.

Her experience includes supporting people through life changes, addiction issues, trauma and abuse, and compassion fatigue. She also works with intimacy-related issues, social anxiety, bipolar and depressive difficulties as part of her broader practice.

Clients who prefer a discussion of how therapy will proceed can expect a collaborative planning approach. Victoria asks about goals, what has been tried before, and practical constraints like work and family commitments before agreeing next steps.

How her therapeutic approaches work for online counselling