How I can help
I am a BACP Accredited Counsellor with twelve years’ experience, offering individual counselling to adults of all ages from 18 to 118! You are all welcome to my practice. You may be looking for someone to talk to because you feel anxious or worried for what feels like too much the time. Maybe you are more tearful than usual, or you feel flat or low. You don’t feel like yourself anymore. This might be for any number of reasons: you might have experienced adversity, such as a bereavement, the end of a relationship, the loss of a job or the diagnosis of a health condition. You may be feeling stressed at work or at university, suffering from burnout, or you might be overwhelmed with caring responsibilities. You might be struggling with your friendships; with your partner, your parents or a sibling. Or you may simply feel stuck but not know why. Perhaps you have experienced past trauma – you were bullied at school, or you were involved in an accident, or there were problems within the home. You may have experienced abuse or neglect. Together we will seek to understand how your experience has impacted you, so that you are able to make the positive changes needed to move forward with your life. Whether you are facing one of the issues above or another that’s not listed, or you simply want to talk to someone outside of your day-to-day life in order to gain a different perspective, my aim is to support you as best I can. Whatever your reason for reaching out for help, I am available either in person or by video, to talk it through with you.
Areas of expertise
- Abortion
- Abuse
- Addiction
- ADHD
- Affairs and betrayals
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Baby loss
- Bereavement
- Birth Trauma
- Blended family
- Boarding school syndrome
- Bullying
- Burnout
- Cancer
- Career
- Carer Support
- Child Related Issues
- Childhood bereavement
- Childhood bullying
- Childless not by choice
- Chronic illness
- Chronic pain
- Codependency
- Cognitive therapy
- Depression
- Difficulties in childhood
- Domestic Abuse
- Eating Disorders
- Emotional abuse
- Family issues
- Feeling sad
- Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD)
- Grief
- Health anxiety
- Infertility
- Infidelity
- Internet addiction
- Jealousy
- Life Transitions
- Loneliness
- Loss
- Low Self-Confidence
- Low Self-Esteem
- Men's Issues
- Menopause
- Mental health
- Miscarriage
- Money
- Neurodiversity
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Older people's counselling
- Panic Attacks
- Perfectionism
- Perinatal Anxiety
- Phobias
- Postnatal depression
- Pregnancy and Birth
- Redundancy
- Relationship Issues
- Relationship problems
- Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
- Separation and Divorce
- Separation anxiety
- Sex Problems
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual assault
- Sexuality
- Shame
- Sleep Disorders
- Social anxiety
- Stress
- Suicidal Thoughts
- Trauma
- Women's Issues
- Work-Related Stress
Languages spoken
- English
Works with
- Individuals
- Young Adults 18-25
Fees
£90 per session
Availability
| Tuesday | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm |
|---|---|
| Wednesday | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm |
| Thursday | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm |
| Friday | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm |
Training, qualifications & experience
Advance Dip. Humanistic Counselling, Metanoia Institute (2016); BSc Reflective Therapeutic Practice, Middlesex University (2016)
Member organisations
- BACP
About me
As a Humanistic Counsellor, my role is to facilitate self-understanding and growth, nurture self-development, offer support, promote healing where there has been damage, and empower you to make the right choices. We will work together to find the best way forward for you.
Further trainings in CBT therapy as well as Life Coaching have enriched my practice, enabling me to offer clients a more integrated approach to their issues. For instance, I draw upon CBT skills when we explore how your thoughts affect your mood, or when helping you identify the ways in which your coping mechanisms might maintain your problems rather than resolve them. Or you may be looking for a more directive, solution-focused approach in order to achieve a desired outcome. This is where the coaching tools I have learned can be very effective in mobilising you to reach whatever goals you want to set for yourself.
Sessions will be tailored to your specific needs, whether you are seeking shorter-term help with a specific issue, or a longer-term engagement for more complex ones.
In our first session, we will discuss your reasons for seeking therapy, any personal history that you choose to share, as well as your goals for the therapy and the type of support you are looking for. Everything we discuss will be confidential.
Whether this is your first time seeking counselling, or whether you have had therapy in the past, it can be difficult to open up to a stranger. My aim, therefore, is to help you feel as comfortable as possible in your sessions with me.
Get in touch with Marina Palmer
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