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Marcos Alves Ribeiro, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 23 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseSelf esteemDepression
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Marcos Alves Ribeiro helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression and relationship difficulties. He also supports those dealing with trauma and abuse, addiction, grief, intimacy-related issues and the strain of caregiving. Marcos communicates in English and Portuguese and has 23 years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom.
He takes a straightforward, conversational approach in sessions. Conversations tend to focus on clear goals and small, practical steps. Marcos aims to make therapy feel like a collaborative problem-solving process rather than a lecture.
Background and approach
Marcos draws on several therapy styles to match what each person needs. He uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people move toward valued living, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns, and client-centred methods to create an open, non-judgemental space. He also works with narrative and existential ideas when the focus is on meaning and life direction.
Across his work he has supported people with a wide range of concerns including body image, codependency, attachment difficulties, blended family issues and issues related to kink and alternative sexual cultures. He also addresses anger, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. Therapy can be arranged as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging.
Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session according to availability.
Approaches for online therapy and how they help
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them, and then focus on actions that matter to them. It can be useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behaviour and teaches practical techniques to change them, which often helps with anxiety, low mood and stress. Client-Centred Therapy creates a warm, non-judgemental space where the person leads the conversation and the therapist reflects back what matters most to them.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Marcos will discuss options and adapt methods based on a person’s goals, situation and preferences. That shared decision-making helps to shape a plan that feels useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to maximise flexibility. Video calls are close to face-to-face work and suit deeper conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging works well for ongoing, brief support. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel, and allow people to continue therapy even when routines change.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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