About Marie
Marie Lloyd offers calm, straightforward support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief and big life changes. She explains things plainly and aims to help each person feel heard and understood. Marie works from a belief that people know their own stories and already carry strengths they can use to cope.
She draws on 12 years of practice to help people manage anger, low self-esteem and difficult transitions. Sessions focus on clear, practical steps alongside talking through feelings.
How Marie works
That mix helps people handle day-to-day pressures as well as deeper, longer-standing concerns. Marie uses a variety of therapeutic styles to match individual needs. She often blends attachment-based ideas, client-centred listening and cognitive-behavioural techniques to build understanding and change unhelpful patterns.
She also draws on emotionally-focused and existential approaches when exploring relationships and meaning. Her work has covered issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, autism and Asperger syndrome, caregiver stress, cancer, and ageing concerns. She also supports people facing control problems, communication challenges, codependency and commitment worries.
Sessions are offered in English and Marie sees people in the United Kingdom as well as international clients online. She holds BACP accreditation, which signals professional recognition within the UK counselling field. Her style is warm, direct and collaborative, with an emphasis on small steps that make a real difference.
People who choose Marie can expect practical tools alongside steady listening. The focus is on making life feel more manageable and on finding ways to move forward from painful experiences.
Marie lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Marie works with
The areas below are the ones Marie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- 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-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Marie often combines attachment-based and client-centred ways of working to build trust and understanding. Attachment-based work looks at how past relationships shape current feelings and reactions, helping people change patterns that leave them feeling unsafe or alone. Client-centred therapy focuses on active listening and helping the person steer sessions, which suits people who want a collaborative, paced approach.She also uses cognitive-behavioural techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical experiments that change behaviour. CBT-style work is useful for anxiety, stress and low mood because it breaks problems down into manageable steps and actions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Marie will work with each person to identify preferences, goals and what feels most helpful. That means trying different ideas together and adjusting the plan as needs change.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging gives practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging helps when daily writing feels more manageable. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and travel while keeping focus on progress and goals.
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