Martin Clegg

I am available from Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm.  Therapy can be available on Saturdays on arrangement.

If you need help with matters that are troubling you about the world around you, how you see yourself, your work or your relationships with other people, I offer a friendly, relaxed and welcoming working environment at my practice in Wrexham.

My experience includes counselling in private practice for insurance and legal companies, and Primary and Secondary Care with the NHS, where I have worked extensively with a wide range of issues, helping people to resolve emotional and psychological problems quickly and effectively.  I have just begun working with clients from BUPA.

I work with many clients in the areas of anxiety, depression, stress and loss.   People also often experience relationship issues and I work effectively with people to resolves these, whether as individuals or as couples.

While developing my practice I have grown to specialise in working with clients who are suffering with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), complex PTSD and associated forms of emotional trauma.  If you have suffered form an event or series of events that threatened your safety and the memories won't go away, if you suffer from flashbacks or nightmares or if you find that you can't go to some places, or if you aren't able to enjoy work or relationships in the same way that you did before the event, then I can probably help you.  Help can be arranged with just a few clicks.

The issues or problems that challenge you are specific to you, and we work with clients in a way which recognises that their situation is unique to them.  You will find yourself being treated confidentially, safely and with the fullest attention. What you share with me will always be treated with the strict confidentiality. I work my clients in a way that involves being as much as possible 'in their shoes', seeing themselves and their world from their own point of view.  In these times when we are living since the  arrival of Covid, I specialise in working face to face with clients, in a safe and health-conscious way.

A quiet, private and discreet practice with easy access.  All the contents of sessions are confidential, unless there is any element of risk to the client or anyone else.  The client is in charge of what is undertaken between us, as much as possible.

The therapeutic environment is set up to be safe, calm and welcoming.

The first session takes up the same amount of time as any following ones.  We will use a 'therapeutic hour', which is fifty minutes long.  This is to allow time for notes to be made between client sessions.  

Clients who have not had 'talking therapy' before often wonder what will happen, and may feel nervous.  What will happen during the session is that we will talk together.  The client may well find themselves talking more than they expected.  I will be listening to everything.  There will be no judging and no directiveness.  I will often provide feedback and there will be a summary each session about what has been covered.  We will use each session to build on to the next one.

I am available at various times and on different days of the week. I can also see clients on Saturdays by arrangement.  I can usually be seen within a few days of first contact.

I am an integrative counsellor and psychotherapist, so I use different approaches for different situations, for example person-centred counselling for relationships and bereavement, cognitive behavioural therapy for depression, stress or anxiety, and transactional analysis for the management of interactions - including with oneself.   In these times when we are living since the  arrival of Covid, I specialise in working face to face with clients, in a safe and health-conscious way.

I see clients with many commonly experienced psychological issues and I specialise in trauma, that is post traumatic stress disorder, also complex PTSD.  Please note that not all designated symptoms need to be present for these, we will work on whatever is troubling you.

A private and confidential practice in central Wrexham, taking self-referrals and ones from EAP. 

The client decides what is worked on in sessions.  The number of sessions is also decided by the client.

Each session, including the initial assessment, takes a 'therapeutic hour' that is, fifty minutes, which allows the practitioner time between sessions to make notes.

All approaches and procedures are explained in session and when a course of therapy reaches a fourth session progress is reviewed to ensure the client's satisfaction and understanding of how the work is proceeding.

The client introduces themselves and explains what the issue or issues are.  I introduce myself and the session is used to explore problems, causes and origins.

In time, we work towards solutions and goals, having identified objectives on the route to those goals.  There is no schedule other than one that might be agreed between client and practitioner.