Marianne Blackmore, BACP

Marianne Blackmore is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, parenting pressures and everyday thoughts and habits. She uses a calm, relatable style and aims to build a trusting relationship where people feel heard. Marianne brings five years of practice to her sessions and works in English and American Sign Language. Her approach is practical and person-led. She listens first, then helps people notice unhelpful thinking and daily routines that get in the way. Sessions may include talking through recent events, looking at how habits form, and trying small changes that fit into day-to-day life. Marianne has worked in education and with carers, as well as in creative industries and transport. That background informs how she supports people under work and caregiving pressure, including compassion fatigue, burnout and career strain. She also supports people facing loss, life transitions and relationship tensions. She uses client-centred ways of working to keep sessions focused on each person’s needs. Motivational interviewing helps when someone wants to make changes but feels stuck. Psychodynamic ideas may be used to look at patterns that repeat across relationships and choices. Marianne welcomes people dealing with self-esteem issues, sleep problems, anger, addictions, ADHD and trauma-related concerns. She also lists additional areas such as body image, codependency and hearing impairment support. If something on your mind isn’t listed, she asks you to get in touch so you can explore it together.

How Marianne’s approaches work in online sessions

Client-Centred Therapy centres the person in the room and follows their lead. It aims to create a space where someone can voice worries, notice unhelpful thoughts and try out new ways of responding. This approach is useful for anxiety, stress and building self-esteem. Motivational Interviewing focuses on helping someone find their own reasons to change. It uses supportive questions and reflection to strengthen motivation for things like addiction recovery, behaviour change or tackling career and lifestyle shifts. Psychodynamic Therapy looks at patterns that repeat in relationships and choices. It can help when people want to understand why certain reactions keep coming up after life changes, loss or relational stress. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and collaborate with the person to choose what fits their needs, goals and preferences. That might mean trying one method for a while and adapting if something else suits better. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week. Please confirm the current session options before booking so you know what formats are available. Remote sessions can reduce travel, allow shorter check-ins during a workday and let someone join from different locations when life is busy.