Victoria Martin, BACP

Victoria Martin is a counsellor who focuses on thoughts and everyday habits alongside relationship and emotional concerns. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression and parenting strains. Victoria uses a warm, down-to-earth approach that aims to help people make small, practical changes that matter day to day.

She describes clients as the experts in their own stories and treats sessions as a place to test what helps. Conversations often look at patterns in thinking and routine habits. Victoria helps people try new ways of responding when old strategies stop working.

Her background includes five years of professional experience and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. That registration is noted as part of her professional details and reflects the route she took to work with clients in the United Kingdom.

In session she draws on several therapeutic approaches, including client-centred ways of building trust and emotionally-focused methods for working on close relationships. She also uses psychodynamic ideas to notice repeated patterns from the past that show up now. Practical work can include communication skills, managing strong feelings, and changing unhelpful routines.

Victoria aims to make therapy straightforward and practical. She supports people through grief, trauma, issues around intimacy and body image, addiction concerns, career stress and questions of life purpose. People interested in everyday habit change and thought patterns may find her focus especially relevant.

How her approaches translate to online work

Victoria combines client-centred methods with emotionally-focused and psychodynamic ideas to help people change unhelpful thoughts and everyday habits. Client-Centred Therapy puts the person's perspective at the centre and helps build a trusting relationship so people can talk openly about stress, anxiety or parenting strains. Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at feelings and connection in close relationships and can be useful for communication problems and intimacy-related issues. Psychodynamic work pays attention to recurring patterns from the past that turn up now and helps people understand why they repeat certain behaviours.

Choosing an approach is a joint process. The therapist will work with the person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences. Sessions can blend these ways of working, and Victoria will check in about what feels useful as therapy progresses.

Session formats are not specified in the original biography, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also allow someone to take part from a quieter location or avoid being on camera if that helps them engage. Ask about formats and scheduling when you match with the therapist.