About Marieke
Marieke Winkel is a counsellor with 11 years of experience who helps people cope with anxiety, stress, depression and the aftermath of trauma and abuse. She supports people struggling with grief, self-esteem, relationship tensions and major life changes. She works in English and Dutch and practises from the United Kingdom while accepting international clients.
Her approach is practical and person-focused. Sessions start by listening to the immediate problem and building a clear plan together.
Background and approach
She draws on attachment-based ideas and psychodynamic thinking to understand patterns that keep problems repeating. Mindfulness and client-centred techniques are used to build calm and strengthen coping skills. Marieke also offers eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing, commonly known as EMDR, for people whose distress relates to past traumatic events.
Where appropriate she blends EMDR with other methods to suit each person’s pace and needs. Her experience includes work in the NHS and specialist services for survivors of domestic violence and sexual abuse. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society, NCPS.
These credentials are part of her professional background and reflect her ongoing commitment to ethical practice. Practical therapy tends to focus on small, achievable steps. Early sessions often involve clear goals, simple strategies to reduce anxiety, and checking what works in everyday life.
Over time the work can broaden to address deeper patterns and past experiences that affect current wellbeing.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect feelings now. In online sessions this helps people notice relationship habits and practise different responses in everyday life. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to decrease reactivity and build steadiness; these exercises can be guided during video calls or practised between sessions.EMDR, or eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing, is used for distress tied to past events. It involves focused attention on upsetting memories while using bilateral stimulation to process the memory. Online EMDR sessions follow the same steps as face-to-face work, with pacing adapted to the person’s comfort and current circumstances.
Finding the best approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose or combine methods based on the person’s needs, goals and preferences. That means checking in about what helps, adjusting techniques, and trying different ways of working until a good fit is found.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for experiential exercises and EMDR. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties or travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Dutch
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