About Marilyn
Marilyn Thomas is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who uses a person-centred approach at the heart of her work. She has five years of experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. Marilyn offers a calm space for someone to talk through what is happening and to think about next steps.
Marilyn draws on several approaches rather than one fixed model. She commonly uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to tackle unhelpful thoughts and patterns that feed anxiety and low mood. In sessions the focus is practical and conversational. Clients can expect to talk about current stresses, relationship and intimacy concerns, changes at work, grief, or past trauma.
Marilyn helps people notice patterns, try small experiments in daily life, and build clearer communication skills. Marilyn works with issues such as self-esteem, anger, compassion fatigue, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and career decision-making. She also supports people dealing with body image, codependency, commitment worries, blended family matters, and relationship communication problems.
Her background with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy is shown as BACP. Marilyn accepts international clients and offers sessions in English.
How Marilyn blends therapeutic approaches for online work
Marilyn commonly uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current reactions. This helps when someone notices repeated patterns in close relationships or struggles with trust and intimacy. She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy to help spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours that feed anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Marilyn will listen to your goals and preferences, explain different methods, and work together to pick what best fits your situation. Sessions can adapt over time as needs change, with both therapist and client checking in about progress and adjustments.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls let you work face to face from another room, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short check-ins, quick reflections, or times when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, commuting, or caring responsibilities, while keeping the focus on making steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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