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Martin Ollington, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 16 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyAddictionsGriefSelf esteemDepression
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Martin Ollington supports people facing stress, anxiety, grief, addictions and depression. He also helps with self-esteem, intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns and career strain. Martin works with a wide range of life challenges that include trauma, ADHD, sleep and eating difficulties, and compassion fatigue.
He uses simple, direct conversation to help people make sense of what’s happening. Sessions focus on practical steps you can try between meetings and on noticing small changes that matter.
Background and approach
Martin treats the person as the expert in their own life and works alongside them rather than giving instructions. Martin brings 16 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. He is registered with the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - which is listed as his credential.
His background includes work with people dealing with attachment and relationship issues, abandonment, and long-term health or caring roles. Martin combines a few established approaches to match what each person needs. He uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to look at values and action, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to notice thinking patterns, and attachment-informed ideas to understand relationship patterns.
He adapts these to the practical problems people bring to sessions. If you prefer talking by video, phone or messaging, those formats are available. To begin, follow the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, then schedule a time that fits your needs.
How Martin uses talking therapies online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps you clarify what matters and take small steps that fit your values, which can be useful for anxiety, depression and life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on noticing and testing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Attachment-informed work looks at how past relationships shape current patterns and helps people make different choices in close relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Martin will listen to your concerns, goals and preferences and then suggest ways to use these approaches or combine them. The choice is collaborative and can change over time as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video lets you see facial cues and body language while phone calls can fit into a busy day and need less bandwidth. Live chat or messaging can be useful for short check-ins or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments, and to continue work when circumstances change.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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