Marcia Holloway
Practical support for stress and relationships
About Marcia
Marcia Holloway helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, trauma and relationship or family difficulties. She also supports those facing intimacy concerns, sleeping problems, low self-esteem, career crossroads and compassion fatigue. Marcia works in a practical, respectful way and aims to make the first steps feel manageable.
Marcia uses clear conversation to find what matters to each person. She listens, asks straightforward questions and helps set small, realistic goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what someone wants to change and on simple skills they can use between meetings. Her background includes more than two decades of clinical experience across the United Kingdom. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, often abbreviated to BACP.
That registration guides how she practises and engages with people. Marcia draws on a few different approaches depending on the issue. She mixes elements from acceptance and commitment therapy, attachment-based work, client-centred listening, cognitive behavioural techniques and dialectical behaviour ideas.
These are used in plain, usable ways rather than complex theory. People who choose Marcia can expect a collaborative working style. She helps clients identify priorities, practise new responses and review progress.
Her aim is to support steady, realistic change that fits day-to-day life. Sessions are offered in English and Marcia is available to work with international clients. She provides appointments online through multiple formats so people can choose what suits them best.
What Marcia works with
How Marcia works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression and life changes because it emphasises meaningful action rather than fighting every unwanted thought. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand trust, closeness and fears of abandonment, which is often useful for relationship and intimacy concerns.Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods that fit the person's life and adjust the plan as needed so therapy feels practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat or messaging can suit shorter updates, between-session coaching or times when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, family and travel commitments.
| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
