Marie Jones, BACP

Marie Jones is a BACP counsellor with ten years' experience as a qualified therapist and more than 25 years working in mental health. She works with adults who bring issues such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions and anger. She also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, self-esteem, career strain and major life changes.

Marie draws on a humanistic, integrative approach shaped by long clinical practice. She uses practical conversations to help people name what is happening and to build everyday coping skills. Sessions aim to clarify patterns that keep problems repeating and to test different ways of responding in day-to-day life.

Her background includes focused work with complex trauma from childhood abuse as well as general mental health problems. That experience informs how she helps someone manage strong emotion, shift unhelpful thinking and improve communication in close relationships. She also addresses issues such as sleep, eating, chronic illness and caregiver stress.

In the room she balances listening with practical tools. Methods she commonly uses include client-centred work, cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness practices. She will also draw on existential ideas and elements of Imago relationship work when they suit the concern.

Marie invites people who are frustrated by recurring anger, snapping at loved ones or mounting workplace resentment to look at clear, achievable changes. She asks for concrete examples, helps set short-term goals and reviews what works between sessions. If you are considering counselling, she asks that you begin by describing what you want to change and how you notice the problem day-to-day.

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