CBT Therapist & Clinical Hypnotherapist | Hungerford & Online

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Meet Laurence Martin

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The people who get the most from therapy aren't the ones with the smallest problems. They're the ones who decided to stop tolerating what isn't working.

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You've found someone who takes that decision seriously

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I'm Laurence Martin, a GHR-certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and CBT Therapist, and the founder of Resilient Mind CBT. I work with people who are ready to understand what's actually driving the pattern, and to change it at that level, not just manage how it feels day to day.

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How I got here

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My route into therapy was not conventional.

I spent over thirty years working in corporate IT and cybersecurity, operating in high-pressure environments where performance was constant, uncertainty was the norm, and the cost of getting things wrong was real. I know what it is to carry responsibility that doesn't switch off. To perform competently while something underneath is running a very different story. To be, by every external measure, fine, and to know that isn't quite true.

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My own experience of CBT and clinical hypnotherapy didn't just help me. It showed me something I hadn't expected: that change at the level of the underlying pattern is not only possible, it is often faster and more complete than people dare to hope.

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That's what moved me to retrain. And it's what shapes how I work.

I bring thirty years of understanding how pressure, identity, and performance intersect, alongside rigorous clinical training and ongoing postgraduate study in depth psychology.

 

When you sit down with me, you are not explaining your world to someone who has only ever encountered it in textbooks.

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​​Who I work with

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My clients tend to be people who are done with surface-level answers. They are often professionals, though not exclusively. What they have in common is that they are ready to do real work, and they want a practitioner who will match that.

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They come carrying things like

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Anxiety that has started limiting what they attempt or enjoy.

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Stress that has become the baseline rather than the exception.

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Phobias narrowing the boundaries of their daily life.

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Sleep that no longer restores them.

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Habitual patterns around food, alcohol, or behaviour they are ready to leave behind.

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A confidence or sense of self that has been quietly eroded.

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Low mood that has become familiar enough to feel normal.

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How the work is structured​

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I use an integrative clinical model built around three evidence-based approaches.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy works with the thought patterns, beliefs, and behavioural responses that are actively maintaining the problem. It is practical, structured, and produces tools you can use from the first session.

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Clinical Hypnotherapy accesses the automatic, below-conscious processes that keep old patterns running even when you consciously want to change. In a focused and deeply relaxed state, the beliefs and conditioned responses that drive the problem become genuinely available to shift. This is why combining it with CBT produces results that are faster and more lasting than either approach delivers alone.

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Depth and somatic work, drawing on Jungian frameworks, parts-based approaches, and body-based awareness, addresses the layers of the problem that purely cognitive approaches don't fully reach. Not every client needs this. Many do.

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What working together looks like

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Progress is tracked from the start using validated clinical measures. You will always know where you are, what has shifted, and what we are working toward. Sessions are structured around clear goals and reviewed regularly.

Most clients reach the point where they no longer need regular sessions well within what they expected. The aim is never ongoing attendance. It is your independence.

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