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Marcia Reid, BACP

Credentials: BACP
Experience: 14 years
Practising in: United Kingdom
Languages: English
Sessions: Online only
Client ages: Adults, 18 and over

Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseParenting issues

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Marcia Reid offers a warm, person-focused counselling style that centres on listening and practical support. She brings 14 years of experience and aims to make it easier to talk about difficult issues. Marcia works in English from the United Kingdom and accepts international clients.

She helps people manage stress and anxiety, and to cope with depression and life changes. Marcia also supports those facing relationship and family problems, parenting strains, and issues around intimacy.

Background and approach

Substance use, grief, sleeping difficulties and anger are also areas she addresses. Her approach draws on attachment-based work and client-centred practice to build safety and trust. Cognitive behavioural techniques are used to spot unhelpful thinking and try different ways of coping.

She can also use elements of dialectical behaviour work and motivational interviewing when change and emotional regulation are priorities. Sessions are tailored to each person. Marcia focuses on what is useful right now and on practical steps people can try between meetings.

She encourages small, manageable goals so progress feels possible and steady. People come to talk about adoption and foster care issues, blended family tensions, caregiver stress and family of origin concerns. She also supports those dealing with domestic violence, immigration-related stress, infidelity and feelings of isolation.

Marcia describes her role as supportive and empowering. She aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity and compassion while working alongside them toward clearer goals and better day-to-day coping.

Approach-focused online counselling that adapts to you

Marcia combines attachment-based and client-centred ways of working to help people feel understood and to build stronger emotional connections. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people notice and shift unhelpful ways of relating. Client-centred counselling focuses on listening without judgement and following the person’s pace and priorities.

She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical experiments. CBT helps when anxiety, low mood or sleeping problems make daily life harder by giving clear steps to test and change thinking and behaviour. Marcia will talk with each person to decide which approach, or mix of approaches, best fits their goals and preferences in a collaborative way.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video is useful for a fuller conversation, phone can fit into a busy day, live chat allows shorter check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting and travel while still working steadily towards change.

What concerns does Marcia commonly help with?

She addresses stress, anxiety, depression and coping with life changes, plus relationship and family problems and parenting strain.

What style of therapy does she use?

Her work is client-centred and attachment-based, with practical tools from cognitive behavioural therapy and elements of dialectical behaviour therapy and motivational interviewing.

How much experience does she have?

She has 14 years of professional counselling experience working with a wide range of personal and family concerns.

Where is she based and what credentials does she hold?

She practises in the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration.

Can I work with her if I live outside the UK?

Yes, she accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.

Which session formats are available?

Sessions can be held via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs.

How much do sessions cost?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.

What are the first steps to begin therapy?

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Areas of focus

What this therapist works with

Most often

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Family conflicts

Also listed

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 14 years
Registered with: BACP
Languages: English

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Marcia Reid, BACP

Background and approach

Approach-focused online counselling that adapts to you

Areas of focus

What this therapist works with

Others working with stress, anxiety