About Marianne
Marianne Blackmore is a counsellor who aims to make therapy straightforward and approachable. She welcomes people feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety and those facing life transitions. Marianne speaks English and also offers sessions using American Sign Language for clients who use it.
She practises from Kentucky and brings five years of professional experience to her work. She focuses on building a reliable, trusting connection before anything else. Sessions often begin with listening to what matters most to the individual and identifying practical changes they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Marianne values creativity in therapy and uses it when it helps people express themselves or work through difficult feelings. Her experience includes supporting people with burnout, compassion fatigue and workplace stress. She also helps with self-esteem concerns, depression, managing career difficulties and coping with loss.
Marianne offers support with relationship and family problems, addiction concerns, sleep troubles and anger management. Additionally she assists people facing abandonment, body image issues, codependency, communication problems and feelings of emptiness. She is familiar with caring-related stress and issues facing fathers and caregivers.
She also has experience engaging with people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Marianne uses a mix of client-centred, motivational interviewing and psychodynamic ideas to guide sessions. She aims to help people notice unhelpful patterns, find motivation for change and draw on their own strengths.
To begin, a short questionnaire helps match priorities and schedule the first appointment.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centred therapy places the person’s own experience at the heart of sessions. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears and helps people set goals that matter to them. This approach is useful for anxiety, stress and issues where feeling understood helps build change.Motivational interviewing focuses on helping someone find their own reasons to change. It uses questions and reflections to boost motivation and resolve mixed feelings about difficult choices, which can be useful for addictions, career moves and lifestyle shifts.
Psychodynamic ideas look at patterns that repeat over time and how early experiences shape current feelings. Discussing those patterns can make it easier to understand why certain reactions keep repeating and to try different ways of relating and coping.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Marianne will collaborate with each person to decide which ideas to use and will adapt methods to fit their goals and preferences. That collaborative process helps people try things out and adjust as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face to face when there is good internet. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging can suit people who prefer to write, need brief reflections during the day, or want support without being on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, American Sign Language
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