Marc Dalal
Insightful counsellor for complex life challenges
About Marc
Marc Dalal is a counsellor with eight years' experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and addiction. He supports people facing career change, grief, parenting challenges and intimacy-related concerns. He also works with issues such as ADHD, bipolar symptoms, anger and low self-esteem.
Marc approaches each person with respect and without judgement, aiming to make sessions straightforward and practical. Marc believes people know themselves best, and he helps them use that knowledge to find clearer ways forward.
Background and approach
He listens closely to what matters to the individual and keeps the focus practical. Sessions tend to centre on what someone wants to change and the small steps that can make a difference. His work draws on client-centred methods that place the person's experience at the heart of therapy.
He also uses narrative approaches to help people rewrite the stories that keep them stuck, and solution-focused techniques to set short-term goals and track progress. Jungian and existential ideas may be used when they help a person make sense of deeper feelings or values.
Marc has supported people with complicated family of origin concerns, attachment and abandonment issues, dissociation, chronic illness or pain, and matters around kink and alternative sexual cultures. He offers a calm, steady presence and practical tools for coping between sessions. Sessions are offered in English and run from the United Kingdom.
He works online using video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
What Marc works with
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Client-Centred Therapy emphasises the person's own perspective and experience. The counsellor provides attentive listening and reflects what is said so people can find their own answers; this works well for stress, anxiety and self-esteem concerns.Narrative Therapy helps people separate themselves from their problems by looking at the stories they tell about their life. Rewriting those stories can shift patterns around relationships, family of origin issues and feelings of emptiness.
Solution-Focused Therapy is short-term and practical, concentrating on small, achievable steps. It is useful when someone wants to address a specific problem such as coping with life changes, building communication skills or tackling anger.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Marc will talk through different methods and decide together which fits best with the person’s goals, preferences and life situation. That collaborative choice can change over time as progress is made.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to match practical needs. Video calls are good when seeing facial cues matters, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited, brief live chat or messaging can be used for quick check-ins or when someone needs a lower-intensity contact. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
| 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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
