About Mary
Mary Prime is a counsellor with eight years of professional experience based in the United Kingdom. She trained as a person-centred counsellor and holds a BACP accreditation. Mary aims to meet people where they are and focus on practical steps that can make day-to-day life feel more manageable.
Mary has worked in NHS talking therapies services as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner and currently works as a Social Prescriber within community mental health teams.
Background and approach
She has supported many people through anxiety, stress, low mood and depression. She also helps people facing grief, relationship difficulties and major life changes. One area Mary particularly understands is chronic pain and long-term health conditions.
She has lived experience of chronic pain and uses that perspective to help others adapt routines and manage commitments alongside health needs. She has also supported unpaid carers to reconnect with their own needs and build coping strategies. Mary blends person-centred ways of working with cognitive behavioural ideas and mindfulness techniques.
She can adjust her style to suit what each person finds most helpful, and she is training in health coaching for a more goal-focused option. Sessions tend to be practical, paced to the client, and focused on what will help day to day. Most of Mary’s work is online, with evening and weekend appointments to suit busier schedules.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, and works in English for people based in the UK.
Approaches and what online therapy can offer
Mary uses client-centred methods that focus on the person in the room, helping people feel heard and guiding sessions at a pace that suits them. This approach is useful for people seeking emotional support, coping with loss or wanting a space to talk things through.She also applies cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and works on practical ways to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT can be helpful for anxiety, low mood and repetitive worry. Mindfulness therapy is used to build present-moment awareness and simple practices that reduce stress and support better sleep and focus.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mary will discuss goals and preferences and will adapt methods together with each person. This collaborative process helps choose which techniques to use and when to change direction if something is not helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone can be lighter and easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat suits short check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and daily life commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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