BACP Accredited Counsellor in Gretna, Dumfries & Galloway

Kassi Martin

Therapy for women

You’ve spent long enough putting yourself last.

Perhaps you’re exhausted from holding everything together.

You may feel anxious, overwhelmed or low. A relationship may be hurting you, or something from your childhood or past may still be affecting your life now.

Perhaps you’ve spent years being the capable one, looking after other people and carrying responsibility, while struggling to find room for yourself.

You may already understand why you feel this way. What you want now is support to change how you live.

I’m Kas, a BACP Accredited therapist with 27 years of professional experience.

I listen carefully and work actively alongside you, helping you understand yourself, find your voice and explore different ways of responding to what life brings.

Our work can support you to express your needs, make choices, set boundaries and make room for yourself in your own life.

You don’t have to arrive knowing what you want to change. We can begin exactly where you are.

I work primarily online with women across the UK and offer in-person appointments in Gretna, Dumfries & Galloway.

I currently have appointments available for new clients

Therapy with me is warm, relational, thoughtful and real.

You don’t need to put on any airs and graces, say the right thing or make yourself easier to understand.

There is room for the parts of your experience that are complicated, contradictory, painful, angry, frightened, uncertain or difficult to put into words.

Some women come because something has happened and they need support now.

Others have been carrying the effects of difficult childhoods, trauma or relationships for many years.

And some have already had therapy and understand themselves well, but know that something deeper has still not shifted.

We begin with you

Sessions are conversational. I work relationally, with warmth, honesty and careful attention to what happens between us.

I do not tell you how to feel, what to think or how to behave.

I am actively involved: listening, asking questions, sharing what I notice and offering invitations to explore. Together, we can make sense of your experience and discover possibilities for doing things differently.

We can notice what you feel in your body or find words for something that has been difficult to express.

These are invitations, and you choose what feels right for you.

There is no programme to complete, formula to fit or predetermined route through therapy.

As a woman you have already adapted enough, I won't expect this of you too.

Our work is shaped around you: what you bring, what matters to you and what unfolds between us. You decide what you want to do with what you discover, with support to explore what that could mean in your everyday life.

In-person therapy

As well as working online, I offer in-person appointments in Gretna, Dumfries & Galloway.

Women travel to work with me from Cumbria, Newcastle, the Scottish Borders and further afield.

I currently have appointments available for new clients.

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Other ways to work with me

My work extends beyond individual therapy.

Planet Kas

This is my online, creative and relational work for women. A place for exploration, expression, connection and making more room for yourself in your own life.

Get in touch

If you are considering therapy with me, you are welcome to get in touch.

You can tell me as much or as little as you want about what brings you, ask me any questions you have, or simply ask about arranging a first appointment.

Email: kas@kassimartin.com

Call/Text: 07876222790