About Marcia
Marcia Holloway is a BACP counsellor with 23 years of experience who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She provides straightforward support for issues such as addiction, relationship and family tensions, depression, trauma and abuse, and problems with sleep and self-esteem. Marcia speaks plainly, offers empathy, and focuses on practical steps people can use day to day.
She uses a mix of approaches to suit each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to identify unhelpful thinking and try small behavioural changes.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, known as ACT, helps people make room for difficult feelings while moving toward valued goals. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships affect current patterns and closeness. Marcia adapts conversations and plans to each person’s needs rather than following a fixed script.
Sessions are collaborative and aim for small, achievable changes that make daily life easier. She pays attention to the effects of long-term stress and compassion fatigue as well as sudden life changes. People can expect clear explanations and practical tools to try between sessions.
Marcia also addresses topics such as body image, chronic illness, caregiver strain, codependency, and drug and alcohol addiction. Her background helps her combine emotional understanding with real-world strategies. She offers help in English and accepts international clients.
Marcia works with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose a format that fits their routine.
How therapeutic approaches fit with online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed by them, and then take small steps toward things that matter. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and behaviours and uses short experiments to change patterns that cause distress. This approach is often helpful for anxiety, low mood and sleep problems.Choosing an approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals and preferences and suggest the best fit, then adjust methods as progress is made. Clients are involved in deciding which techniques to try and when to change direction.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is good for fuller conversations and visual cues, while phone calls use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins, written reflections, or days when a shorter contact feels right. These options make it easier to keep therapy happening around busy lives and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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