Martin Ollington
Compassionate, practical support for life’s challenges
About Martin
Martin Ollington helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief and low mood. He supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, sleep or eating difficulties, and career or life transitions. Martin is a BACP counsellor with 16 years of experience based in the United Kingdom.
He works in a straightforward, collaborative way. Sessions focus on what matters most to the client. Martin treats people as the experts in their own lives and draws on their strengths to move forward.
Background and approach
Martin uses practical tools from approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, alongside attachment-aware and emotionally-focused ways of working. That means he helps people notice unhelpful patterns, try new responses and build more connected relationships with themselves and others. Sessions are paced to suit each person.
Some weeks involve skills practice, other weeks are for talking things through and making sense of difficult feelings. The aim is steady, useful change rather than quick fixes. He has supported clients with a wide range of concerns including ADHD, compassion fatigue, chronic illness, bereavement, adoption and foster care questions, and body image struggles.
Martin also works with people facing complex issues such as bipolar mood changes and co-morbidity, offering a calm, practical presence while exploring options. People who choose him can expect a respectful, non-judgemental space to think aloud, test new approaches and plan realistic next steps. He encourages small, achievable goals and checks in on progress as therapy continues.
What Martin works with
How Martin works
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Sessions & fees
How Martin’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people accept uncomfortable feelings while committing to actions that match their values. It is often useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and helps people test and change unhelpful thinking patterns to improve mood and daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Martin will discuss aims and preferences and decide together which methods to try first. That makes sessions feel tailored rather than one-size-fits-all and lets adjustments happen as progress is made.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is helpful when visual connection matters, phone can be used for quick check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits brief reflections or steady, ongoing contact between appointments. These options make therapy more flexible for people juggling work, care or travel commitments and for those living further from in-person services.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
