About Mari
Mari Syrad is a BACP counsellor who supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief and major life changes. She offers a calm, non-judgemental space to talk through difficult moments and to make sense of what feels overwhelming. Mari aims to help people find practical ways to cope and to notice small changes that add up over time.
She draws on client-centred ideas and existential thinking to shape sessions. That means Mari starts from each person’s experience and helps them notice values, choices and meaning in their life.
Background and approach
Conversations are paced to suit the individual and include gentle challenge when useful. Mari works with a wide range of concerns including depression, relationship and family matters, parenting stress, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, eating and body image, addictions, and career or coaching questions.
She also offers support around abandonment and attachment issues, blended family dynamics, chronic illness and pain, and other complex or co-morbid needs. Sessions focus on what is useful to the person in front of her. Mari listens closely, reflects experience back, and helps people identify small experiments or new ways of coping.
Work can include talking through feelings, examining patterns, and trying out different behaviours between sessions. She has three years of professional experience and practises in the United Kingdom. Sessions are offered in English and are delivered online by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and a session is scheduled according to therapist availability.
How client-centred and existential approaches work online
Mari draws mainly on client-centred therapy, which focuses on building a respectful, non-judgemental relationship. The counsellor follows the person’s lead, reflects what is said, and helps the client clarify feelings and needs. This approach can be useful for stress, anxiety, self-esteem and relationship concerns.She also uses existential ideas to help people look at meaning, choice and responsibility in their lives. That work can help when someone faces major life changes, grief, or questions about direction and purpose. Conversations may explore values and how choices line up with what matters to the person.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Mari will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. The process is collaborative - she offers options and adjusts the style as the relationship develops.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and maintain a more conversational flow. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing or need support between calls. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- 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
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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