Marcos Alves Ribeiro
Experienced counsellor for relationships and anxiety
About Marcos
Marcos Alves Ribeiro helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems and trauma. He also supports those dealing with low self-esteem, addictions, grief and intimacy-related issues. Marcos speaks English and Portuguese and brings 23 years of clinical experience to his work.
He keeps sessions practical and down-to-earth. Marcos listens first, then helps people set clear, manageable goals. He uses a mix of approaches so conversations focus on what the person needs right now.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a steady, respectful pace and aim to build skills that can be used between meetings. Marcos draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviours. He also uses client-centred principles to create a warm, accepting space where people can be honest about difficult feelings.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas help people identify values and take small steps toward them. His experience includes work with trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and complex relationship patterns. He can discuss attachment, abandonment, body image and issues related to kink and alternative sex cultures without judgement.
Marcos also has experience supporting carers and people facing ageing or adoption and foster-care concerns. Sessions can be held in English or Portuguese and are suitable for people based in the United Kingdom and abroad. He follows BACP standards as noted in his credentials.
To begin, people answer a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first appointment.
What Marcos works with
How Marcos works
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Sessions & fees
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Marcos commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) in his work. ACT focuses on helping people notice their values and take small meaningful actions, useful for anxiety, depression and life changes. CBT helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test different behaviours, which is effective for stress, low mood and many relationship problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. He will discuss which methods fit the person's goals, preferences and situation. That choice is collaborative and can change as therapy progresses to match what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation when possible. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer writing or need quick, ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, travel or family commitments and to keep momentum between sessions.
| 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
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
