About Mary
Mary Attwood draws on seven years of practice in the United Kingdom. She uses a compassionate, straightforward style to help people tackle stress, anxiety and low self-esteem. Mary explains things simply and focuses on small, practical steps a person can try between sessions.
Her work often covers depression, addiction and grief. She also supports people with relationship strain, intimacy issues and family concerns, and helps those facing life transitions such as divorce or caregiving stress.
How Mary works
Mary pays attention to attachment patterns and how early relationships shape current difficulties. Mary works from a human-centred perspective that prioritises each person's experience. Sessions are conversational and aim to make difficult feelings easier to name.
She helps people spot unhelpful thinking and test new ways of responding to stress. Clients can expect a collaborative approach that blends short-term problem solving with deeper exploration when needed. Mary can offer practical tools from cognitive approaches alongside goal-focused techniques to build momentum.
The overall aim is clearer choices and more manageable day-to-day coping. She welcomes people across a wide range of concerns including compassion fatigue, parenting challenges, commitment worries and issues around trust or abandonment. Mary uses her experience to adapt support to each person's priorities and pace.
If someone is unsure what to expect, she encourages a first brief conversation to agree goals and a working plan together.
Mary lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Mary works with
The areas below are the ones Mary selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of relating that developed early in life and how they show up now. Online sessions let people talk through how relationships affect thoughts and feelings, which can help with trust, communication and intimacy concerns.Client-Centred Therapy puts the person's experience at the heart of sessions. The therapist listens without judgement and follows the client's pace, which helps when someone needs space to make sense of emotions or build confidence.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts, feelings and actions and tests small changes to reduce unhelpful patterns. It works well for anxiety, low mood and stress and adapts easily to worksheets and practical tasks shared in online appointments.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Mary will discuss options and try different ways of working to match someone’s goals and preferences. That collaborative conversation helps set clear aims and decide whether to focus on short-term problem solving or deeper exploration.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls recreate a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions suit those who prefer not to be on camera, live chat supports shorter check-ins and text messaging can keep momentum between appointments. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to choose the style that feels most comfortable.
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