Mairi Brown, BACP

Mairi Brown is a BACP counsellor in the United Kingdom with six years of professional experience. She regularly supports adults dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, addiction concerns, and anger. She also works with people facing grief, self‑esteem struggles, career pressures, ADHD, and intimacy or parenting worries.

Her sessions aim to be straightforward. She focuses on clear conversation and practical strategies. That can mean learning coping skills, noticing unhelpful thought patterns, and practising new ways to respond when anger or frustration rises.

Mairi uses a mix of recognised approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Emotionally‑Focused Therapy. She blends these to match what each person brings, while keeping work focused and manageable. Sessions typically look at what is causing stress and what helps reduce it in daily life.

She has experience with issues linked to identity, including LGBT concerns, and with addictions and recovery-related work. She also supports people through relationship rupture, separation and blended family challenges, and the complicated feelings that follow adoption or foster care histories.

Practical steps are part of the work. That might include exercises to reduce physical tension, short behavioural experiments, or communication practice for difficult conversations. Mairi asks about the client’s goals and checks progress as work continues.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions