Marie Lloyd , BACP

Marie Lloyd is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 12 years of practice supporting people through stress, anxiety, grief and anger. She focuses on helping individuals who struggle with self-esteem or major life changes. Marie writes plainly and aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure.

Marie believes people know their own story and brings a steady, respectful presence to sessions. She uses a blend of talking therapies to help people notice strengths, reduce overwhelming thoughts and make clearer choices. Sessions are conversational and practical rather than filled with jargon.

Her background includes long-term clinical work with people facing loss, trauma and relationship strain. Marie has worked with clients dealing with bereavement, complex grief and coming to terms with serious medical diagnoses, and she has experience addressing issues related to ageing, caregiver stress and cancer. She also supports people who are navigating attachment concerns, abandonment, and communication difficulties.

Marie draws on client-centred and attachment-based ideas to build trust, and she uses cognitive behavioural techniques to address thinking patterns that cause distress. Emotionally focused and existential perspectives help when people want to bring meaning and emotion into the work. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.

Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged in a variety of online formats. Marie aims to work collaboratively, helping people set practical goals and find ways to cope day to day.

How Marie's approaches work online

Attachment-based work focuses on relationships and patterns formed early in life and helps people understand how these affect present-day connections and reactions. This approach can be useful for those struggling with trust, abandonment or attachment concerns. Client-centred therapy places the person at the heart of the work and relies on listening, empathy and the client’s own goals to guide sessions; it helps people build confidence and feel heard. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and reduce anxiety and low mood.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Marie will discuss options with each person and together they will decide what fits best with the client’s needs, goals and preferences. That collaboration guides whether the work is more exploratory, emotionally focused or skills based.

Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit brief check-ins and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work even when circumstances change.