Marie Potter, BACP

Marie Potter offers one-to-one counselling for people who feel lost, stuck or overwhelmed. She aims to create a calm space where a person can talk through difficult feelings and begin to find clearer direction. Marie writes that working together can help build inner strength, acceptance and a more hopeful outlook for the future.

Marie draws on ten years of experience to support people through stress, anxiety, depression and grief. She also helps with parenting strain, relationship and intimacy-related issues, anger, addiction concerns, bipolar situations, ADHD and coping with life changes. LGBT matters, compassion fatigue and career questions are also within her scope.

Her work focuses on building a warm, trusting relationship so people feel able to share things they may not have said before. That relationship is described as the starting point for making sense of difficult experiences and deciding what to do next. Marie allows time for the process and recognises that opening up can take time.

Marie practises as an integrative counsellor, which means she combines ideas from different evidence-based therapeutic techniques. She uses these to help people understand patterns, try new ways of coping and practise skills between sessions. The aim is practical change and better emotional balance.

Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging. Marie works in the United Kingdom and holds a BACP credential, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

How Marie adapts evidence-based techniques online

Marie describes her work as integrative, which means she blends a small number of evidence-based therapeutic techniques to meet individual needs. One approach helps people notice unhelpful patterns and try out new ways of responding to stress and low mood. Another approach focuses on building emotional awareness and practical coping skills that can reduce overwhelm and support clearer decision making.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Marie discusses goals, preferences and everyday routines with each person and then suggests which techniques to try first. This is collaborative - adjustments are made as progress is reviewed together.

Online sessions use video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a low-bandwidth option or suit people who prefer not to use video. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit shorter check-ins around work or caring responsibilities and to follow up between scheduled sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to use alongside daily life.