Francesca Martin, BACP

Francesca Martin is a counsellor with 17 years' experience offering a calm, listening presence. She is a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and uses a person-centred approach to help people talk through what matters to them.

She has worked in schools and counselling agencies, including a service focused on alcohol-related issues, and spent eleven years as a school counsellor. Francesca has supported adults, young people and couples in different settings and also works as a counselling supervisor.

Francesca focuses on relationship concerns and related difficulties. She helps people struggling with stress, anxiety, grief, self-esteem, coping with life changes, addiction and depression. She also offers support around intimacy, parenting pressures, career worries and compassion fatigue.

Her practice includes additional attention to issues such as attachment and abandonment, autism and Asperger syndrome, communication problems, body image and chronic illness. Francesca is experienced in helping people navigate divorce and separation, blended family challenges and commitment or control issues.

In sessions she takes a person-centred stance - listening carefully, reflecting what she hears, and helping people find their own options. Conversations tend to be straightforward and respectful, with space for people to make sense of feelings and decide next steps.

Francesca offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time, and she works with clients in the United Kingdom in English.

Person-centred work and online counselling options

Francesca practises person-centred therapy, which focuses on listening and helping people find their own solutions. The counsellor offers a supportive, non-judgemental space where reflections and questions help clients understand their feelings and decide on next steps. This approach suits people facing relationship struggles, grief, anxiety, depression and life transitions.

Finding the right way of working is part of the process. Francesca will discuss your goals and preferences and will collaborate with you to choose methods that feel most helpful. That shared decision-making means the approach can shift over time as needs change.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation while staying in a familiar place, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier on the day you need a quick check-in, and live chat or text-based messaging give options for shorter or day-to-day contact. These formats make it easier to fit counselling around work, caring duties or other commitments and let people pick what feels most comfortable.