Martyn Pars, BACP, NCPS

Martyn Pars offers attentive, professional counselling focused on helping people feel heard, understood and supported. He creates a warm, compassionate and non-judgemental space where clients can explore stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, career challenges, ADHD and other aspects of neurodiversity. Drawing on experience from a large corporate employee assistance programme, he has worked with a wide range of concerns including self-harm, suicidal thinking, gender issues, autism, ADD/ADHD and dyslexia, and has a particular interest in later-in-life neurodiversity diagnoses.

Martyn works primarily via video and audio sessions, with occasional messaging support. Prospective clients who prefer written communication as their main form of therapy are advised to seek an alternative therapist. His private practice is based in Cheltenham and Gloucester and he offers telephone and video therapy to adults aged 18 and over across the United Kingdom. In addition to counselling, he is a qualified and accredited executive coach and can provide coaching packages on request.

Sessions often emphasise an empathic therapeutic relationship, and work can include elements of mindfulness, spiritual reflection and meditation when appropriate. Many clients engage in longer term work of one to two years, while others choose shorter interventions of six to twelve sessions. Martyn values the client’s own insight and collaborates with each person to determine the right length and focus of therapy.

He is a qualified and accredited counsellor who holds BACP and NCPS credentials - BACP indicates registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and NCPS denotes membership of a national counselling and psychotherapy register. He has completed additional training to work online and meets with an experienced psychotherapist monthly for clinical supervision; his supervisor’s background influences the reflective, transpersonal dimension of his practice. He works only with individual UK-based adult clients aged 18 and over.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Sessions with Martyn Pars

Martyn draws on client-centered therapy, which focuses on creating an empathic, non-judgemental space where the client’s priorities guide the work. This approach helps people who want to build self-esteem, improve relationships, cope with life changes and feel more confident in their own decisions.

He also uses psychodynamic therapy to explore patterns that may come from earlier relationships and unconscious processes. This way of working can be useful for addressing attachment and abandonment issues, longstanding relational patterns and repeated emotional responses that are difficult to change.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Martyn will work with each person to identify which methods match their needs, goals and preferences, and he adapts the therapeutic plan as understanding deepens over time.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions by video call or phone make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, while live chat and text-based messaging provide additional ways to stay connected between appointments. These options increase accessibility and allow licensed professionals and therapists to deliver consistent, ongoing support from different locations.