Marilyn Thomas, BACP

Marilyn Thomas is a BACP-registered counsellor with five years of practice in the United Kingdom. She offers a calm, straightforward space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, low mood, relationship and intimacy concerns. She aims to help people make small, manageable changes that improve day-to-day life.

She works in a person-centred way, which means sessions focus on the client’s priorities and pace. She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, the Gottman Method and Imago Relationship Therapy are used when they fit someone’s needs.

Typical issues she supports include relationship tension, sexual and intimacy worries, communication breakdowns, self-esteem problems, grief and trauma. Marilyn also works with career stress, compassion fatigue and neurodiversity-related challenges such as ADHD. She mentions work around abandonment, attachment difficulties and codependency among her focus areas.

Her practical approach blends talking, reflection and skills practice. Sessions may include noticing unhelpful thoughts, trying new ways to speak with a partner, or exploring feelings from the past that repeat now. The aim is clearer understanding and day-to-day tools for coping.

Marilyn accepts clients in the United Kingdom and international clients in English. To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.

How attachment, person-centred work and CBT translate online

Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions. Online sessions can explore those patterns by noticing how clients feel in the therapy relationship and tracing those feelings back to real-life interactions. Client-centred therapy puts the client’s priorities first and focuses on empathetic listening and reflection; this approach helps people set their own goals and move at their own pace. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and trying practical changes in thinking or behaviour to ease symptoms.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try. That collaborative process may involve mixing approaches over time so the plan fits the person’s needs.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm the available options before booking. In general online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, cut travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people use audio-only sessions to reduce screen time or choose video when visual cues help the conversation. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt tasks and handouts for remote sessions so practical skill-building continues between meetings.