About Marie
Marie Shakespear is a counsellor who uses a client-centred approach to help people facing stress and anxiety. She holds BACP registration, has five years of professional experience, and speaks English. She aims to make starting therapy as straightforward as possible for worried parents and individuals.
Her sessions focus on creating a welcoming space where people can talk about difficult feelings without judgement. Conversations are paced to match each person, so things move at a comfortable speed.
Background and approach
Practical steps and small goals are used alongside listening to help reduce overwhelm. Marie draws on psychodynamic ideas to help people understand patterns from past experiences that affect current feelings and relationships. That can be useful for issues such as attachment, abandonment fears, and repeated relationship problems.
She also uses solution-focused techniques to set short-term goals and build momentum when coping feels stalled. She has experience supporting people with trauma and abuse, intimacy-related worries, depression, bipolar challenges, neurodiversity concerns such as autism and Asperger Syndrome, and ADHD. Additional areas she works with include parenting strains, communication problems, body image, and caregiver stress.
Sessions are conversational and practical. Marie helps people identify manageable next steps, whether that is improving communication, managing anxiety day-to-day, or coping with life change. She also offers supervision to other practitioners.
Marie practices in the United Kingdom and accepts international clients for online work. Her approach is straightforward and focused on helping people make usable progress in everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Marie uses client-centred therapy to place the person at the heart of the work, listening closely and following what matters most to the client. This approach helps when anxiety or stress needs a steady, understanding space to be discussed and understood.She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at how past experiences shape present feelings. This can help when recurring relationship patterns, attachment issues, or abandonment fears are affecting day-to-day life.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify which methods fit a client's needs, goals and preferences. Together they try different ways of working and agree on practical steps to test what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to give flexibility. Video calls suit fuller conversations and non-verbal cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when lower bandwidth or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging are useful for ongoing support, brief reflections, or when writing feels easier than speaking.
These options mean people can arrange therapy around work, family life or caregiving duties and keep momentum between sessions with messages when helpful.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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