Counsellor profile
Martha Burling, BACP
BACP counsellor - family and parenting concerns
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- Stress and anxiety
- Parenting strain
- Attachment issues
About Martha
Martha Burling is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with six years of professional experience. She works with adults dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, grief and loss, low self-esteem, depression, parenting strain and related everyday pressures. Martha also supports people facing relationship and attachment difficulties, intimacy concerns, and issues around eating, sleeping and impulsivity.
Martha keeps sessions direct and practical. She uses familiar therapeutic approaches to help people notice what matters, change unhelpful patterns and develop clearer ways of coping. Conversations focus on achievable steps for day-to-day life. There is attention to patterns that come from attachment and earlier relationships, and to practical skills for managing strong emotions.
Her style draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas, with elements of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and client-centred listening. That mix is used to tailor how she works with thoughts, behaviour and emotional needs. Sessions may include behavioural experiments, values clarification and emotion regulation skills.
Martha is comfortable talking about parental stress, communication problems and caregiver strain. She also addresses issues such as chronic illness, body image, control struggles, divorce and separation, midlife concerns and career uncertainty. The focus is on helping individuals find clearer ways to cope in everyday life.
To begin, readers are asked to follow the site booking steps. A short matching questionnaire and an initial session are used to identify goals and practical next steps.
How sessions work
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small committed steps towards those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing practical changes in behaviour to reduce anxiety or low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current reactions and helps people find different ways of relating to others and to themselves.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Martha will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. That means talking through preferences, trying a method for a few sessions and adjusting as needed so the focus stays practical and relevant.
The original profile did not specify particular online session formats, so please confirm the available formats before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, cut travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also allows use of exercises and worksheets during a session, and lets people practise skills between meetings to see what changes feel manageable.
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Experience
6+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Questions
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What kinds of home or family concerns does she address?
She works with adults on family and parenting-related stress, communication problems, caregiver strain and related issues such as grief and relationship patterns.
How would she approach a problem like anxiety or low mood?
She uses practical approaches including CBT and ACT to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build daily coping skills.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Martha has six years of professional experience working with a broad range of concerns including addiction, depression and trauma-related issues.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and practises in the United Kingdom.
Can I see her if I live outside the UK?
Sessions are offered in English and she does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
The original biography did not list specific session formats; please confirm current session options on the booking page before scheduling.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire and schedule your first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.