Martha Cheesman, BACP
10 years in practice
Martha Cheesman is a BACP counsellor who helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, and challenges such as addiction or grief.
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 BACP counsellor who helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, and challenges such as addiction or grief. She speaks English and Spanish and works with people across the United Kingdom and internationally. Her manner is warm and down-to-earth, with practical support aimed at making daily life feel more manageable.
Martha uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside attachment-based and client-centred ideas to look at how feelings and relationships shape responses.
Background and approach
She also draws on cognitive behavioural and existential approaches when helpful, choosing methods to suit each person rather than using one fixed style. Sessions focus on what matters most to the client and on small, workable changes. In sessions she offers space to talk about painful memories and current stresses.
She pays attention to how the body and mind affect each other and includes mindfulness-style work when it helps reduce distress. The aim is to help people feel understood and to build clearer ways to cope with difficult emotions. Her background includes ten years working in a specialist counselling capacity, with earlier experience across diverse settings and cultures.
The BACP credential means she is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. That registration guides her professional practice and ethics. Martha welcomes conversation about concerns such as attachment difficulties, self-esteem, caregiving stress, career strain, sexual and identity topics including LGBT matters, and practical problems like sleep or eating struggles.
She frames therapy as a collaborative process and supports people as they try out new ways of relating and managing day-to-day life.
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
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Martha uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people understand and shift patterns in close relationships by focusing on key emotions that drive behaviour. This approach can be useful for people struggling with intimacy, attachment wounds, or repeated relational conflict.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy which looks at how early relationship patterns affect current reactions and security, and on Client-Centred Therapy which prioritises a warm, accepting space where the person sets the pace and agenda. These approaches aim to create greater emotional awareness and safer ways to relate.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Martha will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try. The process is collaborative and may combine approaches as needs change.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for people juggling work, caregiving or travel.
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you. It does not change what you pay or the order of the listings.
Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns can I bring to therapy?
She supports a wide range of issues including anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy problems, addictions, grief, parenting stress, and work-related strain.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Martha combines Emotionally-Focused Therapy, attachment-based and client-centred ideas to focus on feelings and relationships, while using practical tools from cognitive behavioural and existential approaches where useful.
What is her professional background?
She has worked in counselling roles for around ten years in a specialist capacity, with additional experience across different settings and cultures prior to that.
What credentials and location should I know about?
She is BACP registered with practice based in the United Kingdom, and her registration is with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish, and she accepts clients internationally.
What session formats does she use?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are costs and payment handled?
Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time; specific costs vary with location and therapist availability.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling sessions according to therapist availability.
Is this your profile?
Ask us to correct details or take the page down.
Contact us