Stephen Martin

I am currently am available on all weekday evenings after 6pm through to 8pm.

I also offer Saturday mornings for sessions. Please ask for details.

I have worked on and focus on the area of bereavement. This covers a great many aspects of loss.

I very much believe in building a trusting relationship and in working with people towards understanding your issues.

I have extensive experience in the following areas:

Bereavement

Loss

Sudden Loss

Anxiety

Depression

Relationship Issues

Low Self-Esteem

Low Self-Confidence

Everyone is different and there is no single solution that fits all. Working with you to help your talk through the issues you are facing will lead to growth through knowledge of yourself and your emotions.

I have experience that includes a full range of issues presented by clients of all ages, finding successful outcomes in situations such as:

Bereavement

Depression

Loss (including Sudden and Isolated)

Low Self-Esteem

Low Self-Confidence

Worthiness

Anxiety

Anger issues

Relationship breakdowns

I am also a Supervisor working with supervisees, both one to one and in groups, to go through client work.

All of my sessions are 50 minutes in length. 

The initial session is free of charge.

This offers us both to look at how we will work together and if the relationship is right then we can move forward from there. I will go through a contract in this first session detailing the way I work and how we will continue going forward.

I like things to be relaxed as the initial session is always a point of anxiety, especially if no prior experience of counselling has been had.

I am easy going and look to enable us to develop going forward for the growth of you as a client and to assist you with a warm held position to develop from.

I currently offer Zoom,Skype or Face to Face sessions.

For students in training I offer a flat rate of supervision of £35 for a 1.5 hour supervision session.

I also supervise supervisors as well.

I work with both groups or on a one to one basis.

I offer face to face, skype, zoom or telephone, should there be a long requirement for support.

I work with both agencies, EAP and individual counsellors.

I also offer support for course mentoring and believe in supervision being an extension of a student counsellors personal development. I am able to offer a split session where I see you twice a month with each session being 45 mins in length.

I also offer out of hours support to therapists/students to enable support as and when needed.

I very much work in the here and now. I like supervisees to see that they are understood and held and most importantly listened too. 

I work very much from the 7-eyed model and as such like to look at aspects of a supervisees work, especially if they are too close and not able to see the wood for the trees.

I am an easy going person but will put my point across for discussion if needed.

Our first session is designed to establish a working relationship. 

I very much feel that in order to work together we must have a level of understanding and mutual trust. This initial session allows us to consider this and then if agreed future sessions and formats will be discussed.