About Marc
Marc (Mac) McCormack is a counsellor based in the North-west of the United Kingdom. He has 14 years of clinical experience and works with people who are struggling with anxiety and stress. He aims to meet each person where they are and build a way forward together.
Marc uses straightforward methods that suit the person in front of him. He offers client-centred work that focuses on the individual’s concerns and priorities.
Background and approach
He also draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to help change unhelpful thinking patterns and practical coping skills. For people who carry trauma, Marc can use trauma-focused tools such as Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing. He also offers mindfulness exercises and hypnotherapy as options where they might help reduce tension or improve sleep.
He explains choices plainly and invites questions about how each approach feels to the client. Marc has supported people through grief, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, body image worries, chronic pain and a wide range of life transitions. He pays attention to problems that often appear together, such as low mood, sleep disruption and trouble coping with change.
His practice aims to be practical and steady rather than rushed. When working online he responds to messages promptly and asks for 24 hours' notice for cancellations. He helps people pick a format and pace that fit their life, and checks in as therapy progresses to adjust approaches based on what is helping most.
How Marc’s approaches work online
Client-centred therapy focuses on the person’s own priorities. In practice this means the therapist listens closely and follows the client’s pace, helping them name what matters and decide what to work on. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical coping strategies for anxiety, sleep problems and low mood.Marc also offers Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, often used for trauma after careful assessment. EMDR sessions aim to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and the strong reactions they bring, when the client and therapist agree it is appropriate.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Marc discusses options and makes choices together with the client based on needs, goals and what feels manageable. He reviews progress and adjusts methods if something is not helping.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different lifestyles. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be a simpler way to speak when bandwidth is low, and messaging or chat can fit short check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel while keeping continuity with the same therapist.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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