About Mary
Mary Hollow is a counsellor with more than two decades of practice in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP and has 23 years of experience supporting people through difficult life moments. She focuses on keeping conversations practical and focused on what feels most useful to each person.
Mary helps people who are coping with stress and anxiety, grief and loss, and depression. She also works with those facing major life changes and people dealing with addiction concerns.
Background and approach
Her experience includes support around relationships, anger, self‑esteem and career questions. Her approach is straightforward. Sessions begin by listening to what matters most to the individual.
From there she and the client plan small, realistic steps to try between sessions. Mary uses client‑centred methods alongside cognitive behavioural ideas to help people notice patterns and try new ways of thinking and acting. She aims to create a respectful and compassionate space.
Conversations are adapted to the person's pace and preferences. Mary pays particular attention to communication problems, first responder issues, and symptoms linked to post‑traumatic stress. People choose to work with her when they want clear tools for day to day coping and a calm, steady presence through change.
She supports clients who want to rebuild self‑love, address guilt and shame, or find more meaning and direction in life.
How Mary’s approaches work online
Mary uses client‑centred therapy to focus on each person’s experience. This approach means conversations follow what matters most to the client, with the counsellor reflecting back and helping the person find their own answers. It is useful for building self‑compassion, improving communication and working through shame or guilt.She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions influence each other. CBT offers clear, practical techniques to manage anxiety, mood and unhelpful behaviour patterns that can be practised between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Mary will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest options. Together they will try methods that fit the client’s needs and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy with Mary can happen by video call, phone, live chat or text‑based messaging. Video calls are good for a fuller face to face conversation, phone sessions can fit a shorter break in a busy day, and messaging or live chat can be used for quick check‑ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to work around work and family commitments and to keep continuity when life is changing.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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