Marie Shakespear

Marie Shakespear is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) with five years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or relationship and intimacy problems. Marie aims to make the first step easier by offering steady support and an open, non-judgemental space to talk through difficult feelings.

Marie works together with each person to understand what matters most to them. She listens for patterns from the past that affect the present and looks for practical ways to ease day-to-day strain. Her approach blends client-centred listening with psychodynamic reflection and focused methods to set achievable goals.

Clients bring a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, parenting and family stress, ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, and issues around identity and sexuality. Marie also supports people dealing with chronic illness, codependency, abandonment, body image, and communication breakdowns. She adapts her conversations to what an individual needs that week, whether that is a gentle check-in or a deeper piece of work.

In sessions she keeps language plain and straightforward, helping people make small, steady changes. She draws on trauma-focused techniques when past experiences are blocking progress, and on solution-focused steps when someone wants clear, short-term goals. As a BACP-registered practitioner she also works as a supervisor for other professionals.

Marie practises in the United Kingdom and offers therapy in English. If you would like to explore working together, follow the Start Therapy steps to complete the short matching questionnaire and schedule a session.

How her approaches guide online therapy

Marie uses client-centred therapy and trauma-focused methods as core parts of her work. Client-centred therapy means she places the person’s experience at the centre of each session and follows their pace, which helps when someone needs a listening space to make sense of feelings. Trauma-focused therapy looks at the impact of past hurt and uses focused techniques to reduce how much those memories affect everyday life.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Marie will work collaboratively to decide which methods suit a person’s goals and preferences. That might mean a few sessions of solution-focused work to tackle a practical problem, or a gentler, longer course that looks at early patterns and attachment over time.

Practical benefits of remote sessions include fitting therapy around work or family commitments and avoiding travel time. Different ways of meeting can help with quieter check-ins, shorter focused conversations, or fuller therapy when someone is able to set aside more time. Because the available session formats are not specified in the biography, please confirm the current options before booking so sessions can be scheduled to fit everyday life.