About Mari
Mari Syrad is a BACP counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief and depression. She supports those coping with life changes, relationship and family difficulties, parenting strain, addictions and compassion fatigue. Mari also works with concerns such as body image, intimacy, attachment and aspects of alternative sexual culture including BDSM and kink.
Mari offers a calm, listening approach that keeps the individual at the centre of the work. Sessions are about making sense of what is happening and finding practical ways to cope.
How Mari works
She aims to create a space where feelings can be noticed and explored at a steady pace. Her counselling draws on client-centred ideas that place the client's experience first. She also uses existential perspectives to look at meaning, choice and how people respond to change and loss.
These ways of working are plain and conversational rather than technical. Mari has three years of experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP. She offers sessions in English from the United Kingdom and does not take international clients.
Appointments can be held by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Mari uses a subscription model for sessions which can be cancelled at any time. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange sessions to suit their schedule.
Mari lists 2 ways of working on the entry:
What Mari works with
The areas below are the ones Mari selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- 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
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Approaches and online therapy with Mari
Mari uses client-centred therapy, which means the sessions focus on the client's own experience. The counsellor listens without directing the story and helps the person follow their own priorities. This approach is useful for building self-awareness, improving self-esteem and working through everyday stresses.She also draws on existential therapy, which looks at questions of meaning, choice and responsibility. This approach helps when people face big life changes, grief or feelings that life lacks purpose by encouraging reflection on values and options.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Mari will talk with each person about their goals, what feels most helpful and how they prefer to work. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video is useful for a fuller face-to-face feel, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging are handy for shorter check-ins or fitting therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to attend from different locations and to match the session style to personal needs.
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