About Mariam
Mariam Nakabugo offers calm, practical support for adults facing relationship strain, anxiety, low mood and life transitions. She focuses on helping people find clearer steps forward. Mariam writes in a warm, straightforward way and aims to make sessions feel approachable and useful from the first contact.
Mariam uses approaches that centre the person in the room and that look for practical solutions when needed. Sessions emphasise listening, reflection and finding small, manageable changes that build confidence.
How Mariam works
Conversations are paced to match what each person needs that week. She brings ten years of experience working with a broad range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, addiction, grief, career stress and compassion fatigue. Mariam also supports people dealing with attachment and commitment worries, body image, chronic illness, and blended family challenges.
Mariam is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She practises in the United Kingdom and offers help in English. International clients are not accepted at this time.
Sessions can be taken as video calls, phone conversations, live chat or text-based messaging, depending on what feels most useful. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
Mariam lists 2 ways of working on the entry:
What Mariam works with
The areas below are the ones Mariam selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on giving the person in therapy space to speak and be understood. The therapist reflects what is said, asks helpful questions and supports people to make their own choices; this can help with low self-esteem, grief and relational issues.Solution-Focused Therapy looks for practical next steps rather than concentrating only on the past. Sessions identify small, achievable changes that build momentum and tackle problems like stress, anxiety and work-related struggles.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mariam will discuss options and decide together with each person which methods fit best for their goals and preferences. This collaborative planning helps shape session length, focus and the balance between talking and practical tools.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins and text-based messaging works for shorter, ongoing support. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving or health needs and let people choose what feels most helpful.
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