Martin Innes
Martin.innes@southsidecounselling.co.uk
07540 620243
Sessions last 50 minutes and cost £50.
Martin offers face-to-face sessions.
About Martin
Martin is a qualified counsellor working from a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) approach. He can help you to explore unhelpful thoughts and behaviours that are difficult to live with. He offers an empathetic space to bring what you feel is affecting you by discussing your thoughts, feelings and behaviours. so that you can develop together an alternative way of thinking and behaving. Working together in the session Martin will offer you skills and techniques to work with outside the counselling room.
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.
