About Marisa
Marisa Pieri offers practical, evidence-informed counselling to people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction or relationship pain. She works with adults who want clearer thinking, steadier emotions and more confidence. Marisa uses a gentle, collaborative style that treats the client as the expert in their own life.
With three years of professional experience in the United Kingdom, Marisa has supported people facing trauma and abuse and those rebuilding after separation.
How Marisa works
She helps clients manage addictions and the knock-on effects they bring to daily life. She also focuses on self-esteem and motivation, helping people find small, workable steps forward. Marisa pays attention to how early attachment and abandonment experiences shape current relationships.
She is familiar with issues related to adoption and foster care, autism and attachment differences. She also addresses personality-related patterns such as avoidant, dependent and antisocial traits when these affect wellbeing. Practical communication skills and strategies to reduce reactivity are a common part of her sessions.
She supports people working through blended family strain, divorce and co-morbidity of mental health and substance use. Marisa aims to make change feel doable rather than overwhelming. People who choose her often want a calm, steady listener who offers clear next steps.
She invites clients to set the pace and focuses on building on existing strengths. Small gains are celebrated as part of longer-term rebuilding and growth.
What Marisa works with
The areas below are the ones Marisa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| 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
Marisa works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common technique helps people learn skills to manage anxiety and stress through breathing, grounding and step-by-step exposure to feared situations. This approach aims to reduce avoidance and increase confidence in everyday tasks.Another helpful technique focuses on trauma-informed care, which helps people make sense of painful past events and how those events affect current relationships and emotions. This method helps with rebuilding trust in oneself and developing safer ways of relating to others.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Marisa collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs and pace. She will adapt techniques over time so the plan stays practical and realistic for the person she is supporting.
Online therapy offers flexibility and different ways to connect. Video calls work well for full sessions and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or when video bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing reflection and when written communication feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into daily life and to keep momentum between sessions.
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