About Marian
Marian Hanson works from a collaborative, person-focused stance that puts the client's experience first. She uses straightforward talk and practical strategies to help people regain confidence, manage anxiety, and face life changes. Marian holds BACP accreditation and draws on 16 years of experience in the UK.
Her practice concentrates on relationship concerns, intimacy and commitment issues, and the strains of parenting and blended family life. She also supports people dealing with grief, career uncertainty, stress, depression, and compassion fatigue.
How Marian works
Marian helps clients who are navigating adoption and foster care matters or who face multicultural challenges and discrimination. In sessions she mixes talking therapy with hands-on techniques from approaches such as cognitive behavioural work and attachment-informed thinking. This means she will listen closely, help spot unhelpful patterns, and try small, workable changes between meetings.
Sessions also address communication problems, infidelity, domestic violence aftermath, and questions about life purpose. Marian aims to make the work practical. She helps people build self-esteem, improve emotional connection, and manage seasonal low moods like SAD.
Her experience includes long-term and short-term work depending on what a person needs. People can expect a calm, direct style that focuses on goals and everyday steps. She offers therapy in English and accepts clients in the UK and internationally.
Marian encourages an honest, gradual pace so people feel more capable as they move forward.
Marian lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Marian works with
The areas below are the ones Marian selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Online approaches for relationships and life change
Marian often combines attachment-based thinking and cognitive behavioural techniques to address relationship and emotional concerns. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people change how they relate to others. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going and practising new, more helpful ways of responding.Finding the right approach is part of the process and Marian treats it as a collaboration. She will talk through your situation, goals and preferences, then suggest which methods to try first. Progress is reviewed together so the plan can change if something feels unhelpful.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging to make work easier to fit into real life. Video is useful for deeper conversational work and seeing non-verbal cues. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is low or a session is needed during a short break. Live chat or text messages offer brief check-ins and a way to reflect between sessions. These options help people access support from different locations and schedules.
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