Marianne Blackmore, BACP

Marianne Blackmore is a therapist with five years of professional experience who focuses on building strong, trusting relationships with the people she supports. She emphasizes empathy and connection as the foundation for meaningful work together, believing that a dependable therapeutic relationship helps clients explore themselves and tackle life challenges. Marianne has worked across education, with family and professional carers - including parents, young carers, spousal carers and those caring for older adults - and within creative industries and transport, bringing that varied background into her practice.

She integrates creativity into therapy and supports people facing burnout, stress and anxiety, depression, compassion fatigue, relationship difficulties, low self-confidence and self-esteem, and motivation problems. Marianne also works with clients managing life changes and career transitions, coping with loss and ambiguous loss, and dealing with stage fright, imposter syndrome and living with uncertainty. She frames therapy as both self-exploration and practical problem solving, and encourages clients to draw on their own strengths as experts in their stories.

Marianne holds the BACP credential - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and offers services in English and American Sign Language. She invites people to reach out with whatever is on their mind so they can begin a collaborative path toward more fulfilling and manageable daily life.

Approaches that guide online therapy and how they help

Client-Centered Therapy places the client at the heart of the process, focusing on listening, empathy and supporting the individual's own goals - it is especially helpful for building self-confidence and working through life transitions. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative, goal-oriented method that helps people find their own reasons and motivation to make changes, which can be useful for managing addictions, career shifts or motivation challenges. Psychodynamic Therapy explores patterns that developed from past experiences and relationships to illuminate how they influence current feelings and behavior - this approach can assist with deeper issues like relationship difficulties, trauma and patterns of low self-worth.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey. Marianne works collaboratively with each person to identify which methods best match their needs, goals and preferences, and she adapts the plan as the work evolves to ensure a good fit.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place via video calls, by phone, through live chat or with text-based messaging - so people can access support from home, during breaks, or when travel is difficult. This range of options makes scheduling easier and helps maintain continuity of care when life gets busy or circumstances change, while allowing therapists to tailor communication styles to what feels most comfortable for each client.