Marie ShakespearBACP

Marie Shakespear is a counsellor in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience and BACP accreditation. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties. Her work also covers trauma, abuse and intimacy-related concerns, and she supports those facing life changes or challenges to self-esteem.

Marie aims to create an open, non-judgemental space where people can speak freely about difficult feelings. Sessions are conversational and paced to each person’s needs, with the counsellor listening closely before suggesting ways forward. She encourages small practical steps alongside exploring how past experiences shape current patterns.

Her background includes work supporting people through trauma and relationship distress, and she teaches and supervises other practitioners. That supervisory role keeps her thinking about clinical practice and reflective ways of working.

Marie draws on client-centred methods that put the person’s experience at the heart of the work. She also uses psychodynamic ideas to help make sense of recurring patterns, and solution-focused tools to identify immediate, realistic goals.

People often come to her for help with parenting pressures, family conflict, anger or issues around identity and intimacy. She aims to help clients notice options they might not have seen, and to try sensible changes they feel able to make.

Taking the first step can feel hard, and Marie offers steady, respectful support while people work toward emotional balance and clearer priorities.

How these approaches guide online counselling

Client-centred work places the person’s perspective first, so the counsellor listens closely and follows what matters most to you. This approach helps when you want a space to be heard and to build confidence in your own choices.

Psychodynamic ideas look at patterns that repeat over time and try to make sense of where they come from. This can help when relationships, attachment or recurring emotional reactions feel confusing and hard to change.

Solution-focused techniques concentrate on small, practical steps and clear goals. That makes it easier to notice progress quickly and to test changes that fit everyday life.

Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. Marie will collaborate with you to decide which methods fit your needs and goals, and she will adjust strategies as you learn what helps. This is a joint process that balances exploring underlying issues with making immediate, manageable changes.

The practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions around work, childcare and travel, and reducing the time spent on commuting. If you are unsure which session format is offered, check the current options before booking so you can plan around everyday commitments. Online sessions can make it easier to maintain regular contact and to build therapeutic momentum without needing to rearrange large parts of your schedule.