Martha is a senior psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapist with more than three decades’ experience working with individuals and couples across a wide range of psychological and relational difficulties. Her work centres on helping people make sense of complex emotional states, entrenched patterns of relating and the profound impact of life transitions. Her approach draws on psychoanalytic thinking, clinical curiosity and careful attention to both conscious and unconscious experience.

Martha has a particular interest in the psychological dimensions of infertility, reproductive loss and assisted conception. She has written on how infertility and Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) shape identity, intimacy and the couple relationship. Her chapter “Becoming parents through ART: Infertility, loss and the dilemmas of Assisted Reproductive Technology” was published in Couples as Parents (Routledge, 2024), offering clinicians a psychoanalytic framework for understanding the emotional complexities that arise when becoming a parent depends on medical intervention.

Martha teaches and presents on fertility-related themes within professional settings, including the impact of ART on couple communication, the ethical and relational challenges of donor conception, and the psychological consequences of prolonged fertility treatment. Her contributions encourage clinicians to think beyond medical outcomes toward the lived emotional realities of infertility and reproductive medicine.

Martha originally trained in social work, counselling and family therapy before completing advanced clinical training at WPF Therapy, Tavistock Relationships, Anna Freud Centre and the Institute of Group Analysis. She worked within the NHS for over twenty years, including as Clinical Lead for Specialist Psychological Psychotherapies.  Further, she teaches and supervises across various training programmes, including at the Tavistock Clinic, Tavistock Relationships and the British Psychotherapy Foundation. She is also a member of the editorial board of the journal Couple and Family Psychoanalysis.