About Marguerita
Marguerita Van Der Meer is an ACA counsellor with 15 years' experience supporting people through stress, anxiety and life changes. She brings a thoughtful, adaptable style and a long-standing interest in philosophy to her counselling work. Her approach is gentle and practical, aimed at helping people find manageable steps forward.
Marguerita works with a wide range of concerns including depression, grief, addictions and relationship problems. She also supports clients facing parenting and family pressures, LGBT issues, ADHD and challenges linked to adoption, attachment and neurodiversity.
Background and approach
Her practical focus is on what people can do day to day to feel steadier and clearer. Her methods draw on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Narrative Therapy and Mindfulness techniques. Sessions often involve noticing unhelpful patterns, practising simple mindfulness exercises, and finding values-based actions that fit each person’s life.
She prefers a collaborative, conversational style rather than a didactic one. Marguerita’s background includes work across cultural minority groups and complex health settings. That experience informs her awareness of how social and spiritual questions can shape mental health.
She aims to create a space where people can talk through difficult emotions and make practical changes. Clients can expect a down-to-earth counsellor who mixes philosophy, mindfulness and evidence-informed methods. Marguerita helps people untangle recurring problems and build coping strategies that suit their everyday routines.
Approaches that suit online counselling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match what matters to you. It is useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life transitions. Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the centre of the conversation, with the counsellor offering empathic listening and support to help clarify goals and priorities. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm; it often pairs well with ACT for ongoing anxiety management.Choosing the right approach is part of the work Marguerita does with each person. She will discuss what feels useful, try different techniques, and adjust based on the client's goals and preferences. The process is collaborative rather than prescriptive, so people shape the direction of their counselling together with her.
Online therapy offers flexible options such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow for face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues. Phone sessions work well when internet bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, mood tracking or when writing helps people reflect between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit counselling around work, family and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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