Marie Lloyd, BACP

Marie Lloyd is a counsellor with 12 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief and big life changes. She works with individuals who are trying to rebuild self-esteem, manage anger, or cope with difficult decisions. Marie writes plainly and aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone under pressure.

Her way of working starts from the view that clients are the experts in their own lives. She listens for strengths and practical options, and helps people identify steps they can try between sessions. Conversations focus on what is happening now and what changes a person wants to make.

Marie draws on a range of approaches to match each person's needs. She uses client-centred conversations to make people feel heard, attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns, and cognitive behavioural techniques to work with unhelpful thoughts. She also brings elements of emotionally-focused and existential approaches when they fit a person's situation.

Marie has supported people through bereavement, childhood trauma, work-related stress, serious medical news, caregiving strain and relationship problems. She also has experience with issues such as codependency, abandonment and challenges related to neurodiversity including autism and Asperger Syndrome.

She is registered with the BACP, practises in the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English. The process for starting is straightforward: follow the platform steps to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.

How Marie's approaches translate to online work

Attachment-based work looks at patterns in close relationships and how they affect day-to-day feelings. Online conversations can help people notice those patterns and try new ways of connecting or setting boundaries. Client-centred therapy focuses on being heard and understood; in online sessions that usually means the counsellor follows the client's lead and reflects what is important to them. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test small behavioural changes, which can be practised between sessions and reviewed remotely.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work itself. Marie will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels most useful. Together they will decide which combination of approaches to try and adapt the plan as things move forward.

Confirm the exact session formats before booking, since the biography does not list them. Online therapy can still make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - it reduces travel time, can allow shorter check-ins during a lunch break and makes it simpler to include people who live far apart. Registered or accredited professionals often find remote sessions suit people who need flexibility while they work on stress, grief or life decisions.