About Marie
Marie Shakespear uses a person-centred approach to help people who feel stuck, anxious or overwhelmed. She is a BACP practitioner with five years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. Marie aims to make the first step easier for anyone who is nervous about reaching out.
She focuses on everyday problems such as stress, anxiety and depression. She also supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy-related concerns, trauma and abuse, and the emotional effects of life changes and caregiving.
How Marie works
LGBT issues, career stresses and challenges around self-esteem are included in her work. Marie combines client-centred listening with psychodynamic ideas about how past experiences shape present patterns. She also uses solution-focused techniques to set small, practical goals and trauma-focused methods when past harm needs careful attention.
Sessions are aimed at helping people notice patterns and try different ways of coping. Her approach is straightforward and respectful. She creates a non-judgemental space where people can talk through painful topics and test new responses.
The work can include short-term goal-setting or a longer process to understand deeper issues. Marie also offers supervision to other practitioners. She works in English and accepts international clients, and she provides sessions through video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Marie lists 4 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches in online counselling
Marie commonly uses client-centred therapy, which focuses on listening closely to each person and responding without judgement. This approach helps people feel heard and can be useful for anxiety, low mood and relationship worries.She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at how earlier experiences and relationships influence current feelings and patterns. This can help when someone wants to understand repeating difficulties or long-standing emotional themes.
Marie treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will work with the person to agree goals and try methods that suit their needs and preferences, adjusting the plan as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging, giving flexibility for different situations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing, shorter exchanges. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family or other commitments and allow people to choose the format that feels most comfortable.
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