About Marcos
Marcos Alves Ribeiro helps people tackle stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression and addiction. He also supports those facing grief, intimacy issues, eating concerns, parenting strain, anger, and change. Marcos speaks English and Portuguese and has 23 years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom.
Marcos uses clear, straightforward conversations to help people understand their situation. He draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centred work and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to offer practical ways to cope.
How Marcos works
Sessions aim to identify what matters to the person and find small, manageable steps forward. His background includes teaching and research alongside a long clinical practice. Marcos holds registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
That sits alongside experience working with people from diverse backgrounds and a range of life problems. In therapy he pays attention to life stories and how past events shape current choices. Narrative and existential ideas shape conversations about meaning, identity and values.
The work can include looking at thought patterns, behaviour experiments and values-based goals. Sessions can be short-term focused work or longer conversations for deeper issues. Marcos aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk frankly about fears and hopes.
He helps people pick practical actions they can use between sessions to feel steadier. People who want to start choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to availability. International clients are accepted for online formats.
Marcos lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Marcos works with
The areas below are the ones Marcos selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English, Portuguese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify what they value and take small committed actions towards those values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and when people feel stuck or unmotivated. Client-Centred Therapy emphasises a warm, listening relationship where the person leads the pace and topics; it supports people who need a non-judgemental space to talk through feelings. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful habits; this can help with anxiety, low mood and coping skills.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Marcos will discuss different methods and together the person and therapist will choose what fits best with the person’s goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process and the plan can change as therapy progresses.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls provide face-to-face contact, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text-based messaging lets people reflect in writing. These options increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep continuity of care across locations and schedules.
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