Martin Innes
Martin.innes@southsidecounselling.co.uk
07540 620243
Sessions last 50 minutes and cost £50.
Martin offers face-to-face sessions.
Martin works from our Shawlands location and is available: Monday 9-12pm Wednesday 6-9pm Friday 3-5pm
About Martin
Martin is a CBT and Integrative Counsellor offering counselling in Glasgow’s Southside. He has been practising as a counsellor since 2020. he originally trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy ((CBT) and is now in his second year of psychodynamic counselling training, which he is integrating into his work with clients.
Martin can support you to explore difficult thoughts, feelings and behaviours in a warm understanding and empathic space. Working together, you can begin to look at patterns in your life and the situations that may be contributing to how you are feeling now.
Alongside CBT, Martin’s psychodynamic training can help you explore how past experiences, including family and childhood influences, may be affecting you in the present.
Martin’s approach is also influenced by the person-centred values of empathy, honesty and acceptance. His aim is to offer a supportive therapeutic relationship where you can develop grater self-understanding, consider new perspectives, and build practical skills to help you to move forward.
In addition to his counselling work at Southside Counselling and Therapy Centre, Martin is a volunteer counsellor with LGBT Health & Wellbeing in Glasgow. He brings his experience of counselling and his background of working in the LGBT+ community into his practice. He is also a COSCA-accredited Tutor at the University of Strathclyde, delivering the COSCA Certificate in Counselling Skills.
Martin works with all people aged 16+ and offers some limited reduced-price sessions.
Martin works with a range of issues including:
• Low self-esteem
• Low Mood
• Depression
• OCD
• Anxiety
• Panic
• Issues connected to sexual orientation/gender identity (e.g. coming out)
Training and Experience
Martin’s qualifications include the COSCA Counselling Skills Certificate and the SCOTACS Diploma in Counselling and Groupwork – A Cognitive Behavioural Approach. He also has Diplomas in Community Education and Gender Studies. He continues to add to his counselling skills through Continuing Professional Development (CPD). He recently completed the first year of an MSc in Human Relations and Counselling (2023-2024), adding a Psychodynamic element to his CBT counselling practice.
Professional bodies
Martin is a Counselling & Psychotherapy in Scotland (COSCA) practitioner member. He is also a current individual member of The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and adhere’s to their code of practice.
