Mairi Brown
Supportive counsellor for stress and relationships
About Mairi
Mairi Brown helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties. She also supports those dealing with addiction, grief, self-esteem and life changes. Her work covers intimacy-related concerns, parenting stress and LGBT issues.
Mairi is available to people in the United Kingdom and communicates in English. Mairi works in a straightforward, respectful way. She aims to listen first and then shape sessions around what matters most to each person.
Conversations are practical and paced to fit what someone can manage.
Background and approach
She focuses on small, doable steps as well as understanding difficult feelings. She draws on several established approaches to guide sessions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports people to act on their values while living with uncomfortable emotions. Client-Centred Therapy keeps the person’s viewpoint central and guides the pace of change. With six years of practice, Mairi adapts methods to the issue at hand.
That means using mood and behaviour strategies for depression, skills for managing anger, motivational techniques for addiction, and emotion-focused ideas for close relationship work. She also addresses issues like body image, ADHD-related struggles and career stress. Mairi holds BACP registration, which recognises her professional standing in the UK.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. To begin, a short questionnaire helps match people and schedule the first session.
What Mairi works with
How Mairi works
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Sessions & fees
How Mairi’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people focus on what matters to them and take actions aligned with their values while allowing difficult feelings to exist. It is useful for anxiety, stress and life transitions where motivation and clarity are needed.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns. It suits problems like depression, anxiety, sleeping difficulties and many everyday stresses.
Client-Centred Therapy puts each person’s perspective at the heart of the work. The counsellor follows the person’s pace, offers empathic listening and helps them make sense of their experiences over time, which can aid relationship and identity concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Mairi will work with the person to decide which methods best match their goals, preferences and current situation. This happens collaboratively, and the plan can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls are close to an in-person session and let visual interaction. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to schedule during short breaks. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or irregular routines.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
