Francesca Martin, BACP

Francesca Martin is a Person-Centred counsellor with 17 years of experience. She works in the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration. Francesca listens without judgement and helps people talk through issues that feel hard to handle. She aims to offer a warm, accepting space to explore what matters to each person.

Francesca has worked in schools and counselling agencies, including services focused on alcohol-related difficulties. She has experience counselling young people, adults and couples, and she spent 11 years as a school counsellor. She also holds an additional qualification in couples counselling and a CPD certificate in online and telephone counselling.

Clients often come for relationship concerns, stress and anxiety, grief, self-esteem and coping with life changes. Francesca also supports people dealing with addiction, ADHD, chronic illness, caregiver stress and issues linked to attachment or abandonment. Her practice includes work with intimacy-related problems and a range of other concerns such as career strain and compassion fatigue.

In sessions she offers a listening, non-directive approach. She will not tell clients what to do but will help them weigh options and make sense of their situation. Francesca also provides counselling supervision to other practitioners.

Sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time. Francesca works in English and currently does not take international clients. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to her availability.

How Francesca’s person-centred work translates online

Person-Centred Therapy puts the client’s experience at the centre of sessions. The counsellor listens without directing and reflects what is said to help people see their options more clearly. This approach suits concerns like anxiety, relationship troubles, grief and life transitions because it helps people make sense of their feelings.

Francesca also has training in online and telephone counselling, which means she has explored how to hold supportive conversations at a distance. That can make it easier to keep continuity of care when life is busy or when attending in person is difficult.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Francesca will collaborate with each client to decide how to proceed based on their needs, goals and preferences. Together they can try different ways of working and adapt the pace or focus as things change.

The biography records a CPD certificate in online and telephone counselling but does not list all session formats. Please confirm the current session options before booking. Online work can help fit therapy into everyday life by reducing travel time, offering shorter check-ins around work, or providing sessions when attending in person is not practical.