About Marcus
Marcus Pugh is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 12 years of experience. He supports people coping with stress, anxiety, depression and addictive behaviour. He listens without judgement and aims to help clients find their own answers.
Marcus works in a warm, straightforward way. He believes people are the experts on their own lives and that therapy is a space to talk through thoughts and feelings. Sometimes his role is to listen; other times he gently offers alternative perspectives or practical suggestions when helpful.
Background and approach
His practice covers a wide range of concerns including relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy issues and sleep or eating worries. He also helps people facing life changes, career stress, low self-esteem and challenges linked to ADHD or bipolar mood fluctuations. Marcus uses approaches that focus on the person and their goals.
He draws on client-centred methods to follow what matters most to the client, and on cognitive behavioural tools to tackle unhelpful thoughts and patterns. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are also part of his toolkit when preparing for change. People can expect straightforward language and a calm presence in sessions.
Marcus aims to build on each person's strengths while guiding practical steps forward. He encourages clients to find meaning and to make choices that fit their life.
Approach and practical online counselling
Marcus often uses client-centred work, which means he follows what matters most to the person in front of him. This approach focuses on listening, understanding and helping clients discover their own solutions to problems such as relationship strain, grief or low self-esteem.He also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour. CBT gives practical steps to break unhelpful patterns and is often used for anxiety, depression and addictive behaviours.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Marcus will discuss what feels most useful and adjust methods to match a client's goals and preferences. That collaboration helps shape each plan and makes sessions more relevant to daily life.
Online therapy here is offered by registered or accredited professionals and includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions suit shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth, live chat can be useful for real-time back-and-forth and text messaging supports brief reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, family and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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