Martha Cheesman, BACP

Martha Cheesman is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She helps people with a wide range of concerns, including relationship difficulties, jealousy, anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions and issues around intimacy. She also supports people coping with grief, stress, parenting strains, career dilemmas and identity questions.

Martha works in a straightforward, humane way. Sessions focus on what feels most urgent to the person in front of her. She listens, helps name patterns and offers practical steps you can try between sessions. She draws on several approaches to match the work to each persons needs.

Her background spans ten years of focused practice alongside earlier roles in counselling. Martha uses Attachment-Based ideas to look at relationship patterns and Emotionally-Focused tools to notice and shift feelings in the moment. She also integrates Cognitive Behavioural Therapy elements for thinking and behaviour changes and brings existential questions into longer-term work.

Martha emphasises the whole person. She pays attention to how thoughts, body sensations and personal values interact. This makes her approach suitable for people dealing with trauma, self-esteem struggles, codependency, or those wanting clearer boundaries.

Sessions are offered in English and Spanish, and she works with people from different cultures and backgrounds. The aim is to help people feel heard, develop practical coping strategies, and find more stable ways of relating to themselves and others.

How Martha uses therapy approaches online

Martha combines attachment-focused work with emotionally-attuned methods to help people understand relationship patterns and respond differently. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current reactions, which can be useful for jealousy, commitment worries and trust issues. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on recognising and shifting strong emotions in the moment to help people connect more clearly with what they feel and need.

She also brings elements of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behaviour changes that reduce distress. Together these approaches allow practical tasks alongside deeper conversations about meaning and values. Martha aims to work collaboratively, so the choice of ways to work is made together based on the persons needs, goals and preferences.

If you are considering online work, please confirm the exact session options before booking as formats are not specified in the biography. Many people find online sessions help fit therapy into busy lives, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and make it easier to speak with a counsellor who uses specific approaches such as attachment and emotional work. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt exercises, reflective discussion and homework tasks to a remote setting so the work still progresses between sessions.