About Marilyn
Marilyn Thomas is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with five years of practice. She offers a calm, listening presence for people facing stress, anxiety, low mood and challenges around relationships and intimacy. She uses a person-centred way of working that keeps the client’s experience at the centre of sessions.
That means she focuses on what matters most to the individual and adapts conversations to fit their needs. Marilyn also draws on cognitive behavioural ideas and attachment-based thinking when helpful.
How Marilyn works
Clients often come for help with relationship concerns, sexual and intimacy issues, or communication difficulties that feel stuck. She also supports people dealing with grief, trauma, burnout and life transitions such as divorce or career change. There is experience addressing neurodiversity-related concerns such as ADHD and compassion fatigue from caring roles.
Sessions aim to be practical and grounded. Marilyn will help people notice patterns, try small changes, and reflect on how past experiences shape current feelings and choices. Work can include exploring attachment dynamics, building coping strategies, and improving day-to-day communication.
Her approach is collaborative and paced to the individual. People who come for coaching-style support can expect clear goals and steps, while those wanting reflective therapy can explore deeper patterns over time.
Marilyn lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Marilyn works with
The areas below are the ones Marilyn selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- 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
Working online with attachment and cognitive approaches
Marilyn blends person-centred work with attachment-based and cognitive behavioural therapy ideas. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people spot and change unhelpful relationship habits. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought and behaviour patterns that keep problems going and practising concrete techniques to shift mood and reactions. Together these approaches suit relationship concerns, intimacy issues, anxiety and low mood.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Marilyn will discuss goals and preferences so the approach fits the person rather than the other way around. This is a collaborative process where techniques and pace are adjusted as things progress.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls help keep the face-to-face feel, phone sessions can be easier on bandwidth or for quicker check-ins, and chat or messaging works well for short updates or when written reflection helps. These options make it easier to attend around work, family commitments and travel.
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