Marianne Blackmore, BACP

Marianne Blackmore is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety and major life changes. She aims to build a trusting connection first, and then work together to find practical ways forward. Marianne speaks English and can communicate using American Sign Language for clients who use it.

She describes the relationship between counsellor and client as the foundation of progress. Sessions tend to centre on listening, reflecting and helping people notice strengths they already have. Marianne values creativity in the work and often brings imaginative ways to look at problems when they might help.

Her background includes roles in education, work with carers and time spent in creative industries and the transport sector. That range of experience shapes a pragmatic style that suits people juggling work, caring duties or career stress. Marianne has five years of professional practice working directly with people in these settings.

She offers support for a broad set of concerns including parenting pressures, compassion fatigue, addictions, relationship and family problems, trauma and abuse, sleep difficulties, anger and career strain. Additional focus areas noted are body image, caregiver stress, codependency, dissociation and issues such as abandonment, guilt and shame.

Marianne uses approaches that prioritise the client's perspective, including client-centred methods, motivational interviewing and psychodynamic ideas. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.

To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability through the Start Therapy flow.

How her approaches work online

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience in their own words. The counsellor listens with empathy and helps clients identify their priorities and personal strengths, which can help with anxiety, low self-esteem and life transitions.

Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative conversation style that helps people find their own reasons for change. It can be useful for challenges such as addiction, motivation problems or making career and lifestyle shifts.

Psychodynamic ideas look at patterns that repeat over time and how past experiences shape current feelings. This approach can help people make sense of relationship difficulties, abandonment or long-standing emotional pain.

Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. Marianne will discuss options and decide together which methods fit a person's goals, needs and preferences. She takes a collaborative stance and adjusts her way of working as the relationship develops.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for a fuller face-to-face conversation, phone sessions suit lower bandwidth or when hands-free time is needed, and chat or messaging can be a shorter check-in or a way to fit counselling around a busy schedule. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.