Marjorie Coke , BACP

Marjorie Coke is a counsellor with 19 years of practice in the United Kingdom. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression and low self-esteem. Marjorie supports those coping with trauma, loss and relationship and intimacy concerns. She uses a respectful, non-judgemental approach and believes people bring important knowledge about their own lives.

Her background includes long experience with abuse-related trauma, including intimate partner and domestic violence and child sexual abuse. She also helps people dealing with grief, including those bereaved by suicide, and with difficult feelings such as suicidal ideation. Marjorie draws on several therapeutic ideas to shape practical sessions.

Sessions often focus on the person’s goals and on building everyday coping skills. Techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small experiments to shift them. Mindfulness practices are used to calm the nervous system and to bring attention back to the present moment.

She also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat over time, and trauma-focused methods when past events keep causing distress. Marjorie aims to work collaboratively, helping people make choices that suit their situation and values. Her approach is steady and warm, focused on helping people regain a sense of agency.

Marjorie holds BACP accreditation, which is listed as BACP. She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. Practical session formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging.

Approaches and online therapy options

Marjorie commonly draws on client-centred, cognitive behavioural and trauma-focused ideas in online work. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening closely and helping a person lead the pace and goals of sessions, which suits people wanting a supportive, person-led space. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking and introduces simple experiments and actions to try different ways of coping with anxiety, low mood and sleep problems. Trauma-focused therapy looks directly at how past events continue to affect feelings and behaviours and uses targeted strategies to reduce ongoing distress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Marjorie will discuss the options and decide with each person which methods match their needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative conversation can change over time as priorities shift or as someone notices what helps most.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat and text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from wherever the person is based. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, weekday check-ups or for people who find typing easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare and daily life while working with registered or accredited professionals who use the approaches described above.