About Marc
Marc (Mac) McCormack offers straightforward, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem or life changes. He meets each person where they are and focuses on clear steps to make day-to-day life feel more manageable. Sessions are calm and down-to-earth, with time for listening and planning what comes next.
With 14 years of experience in mental health, Marc brings steady clinical knowledge to conversations about trauma, depression, addiction and relationship or intimacy-related worries.
How Marc works
He also addresses problems like sleeping and eating difficulties, chronic illness and caregiver stress. He is familiar with a wide range of concerns including attachment and abandonment issues, dissociation, and aspects of alternative sexual culture such as BDSM and kink. Marc uses a mix of approaches tailored to the person.
He draws on client-centred work to prioritise the person’s own goals, cognitive behavioural methods to tackle unhelpful thoughts and patterns, and EMDR for processing traumatic memories. He also offers mindfulness techniques and hypnotherapy depending on what fits best. Sessions can take different formats to suit practical needs, including video, phone calls, live chat or text messaging.
Marc accepts people based in the United Kingdom and international clients in English. He asks for at least 24 hours notice for cancellations and aims to respond to messages promptly. To begin, people complete a short questionnaire and arrange times that work for them.
Marc then helps to shape a flexible plan with clear steps and regular check-ins.
Marc lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Marc works with
The areas below are the ones Marc selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches you can use online and what to expect
Client-centred therapy puts the person’s own goals at the centre of the work. The therapist listens carefully, reflects what is said and helps people decide the next steps. This approach suits those who want a supportive space to make sense of feelings and choose their own direction.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts, feelings and actions link together. It uses straightforward techniques to test unhelpful thoughts and build different habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep and eating issues.
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used for processing distressing memories. It guides people through structured sessions to reduce the intensity of traumatic reactions and make memories easier to cope with.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk through options, try practical techniques together and adjust the plan based on what works and how goals change. Clients are invited to give feedback so the sessions stay useful and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video gives the closest sense of being in the room, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat or text suit short check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and travel, and to continue work when attending in person is not convenient.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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