Marian Hanson
Practical, relational therapy for life and loss
About Marian
Marian Hanson works from a client-centred and attachment-based perspective. She blends practical skills with thoughtful conversation to help people tackle stress, anxiety and low self-esteem. Marian draws on 16 years of experience and holds BACP registration, which guides her professional practice.
She helps people make sense of relationship and intimacy difficulties. That includes problems with communication, commitment, infidelity and blended family dynamics. She also supports those facing grief, compassion fatigue and career-related stress.
Background and approach
In sessions Marian often uses cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviours. She also brings existential ideas to conversations about life purpose and meaning. The Gottman Method informs her work on couple communication and conflict patterns.
Her style is warm and direct. She treats people as experts in their own lives while offering tools and structure when needed. Sessions aim to be practical so people can try new ways of relating between appointments.
Marian works with adoption and foster care matters and multicultural concerns including prejudice and discrimination. She also supports parents coping with family problems and seasonal affective disorder. People can expect a steady, collaborative approach that focuses on small, manageable changes.
What Marian works with
How Marian works
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Sessions & fees
How Marian’s approaches work online
Marian combines client-centred listening with attachment-based ideas to support relationships and emotional safety. Client-centred therapy means the counsellor follows the person's pace and priorities, offering empathy and reflection to help people find their own answers. Attachment-based work looks at how past connections shape current relationships and helps people change interaction patterns.She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new actions between sessions. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood and stress because it breaks problems into thought, feeling and behaviour so practical changes can be tested. Together these approaches give both understanding and concrete steps to try out in daily life.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Marian will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then adapt the methods used as therapy progresses. That means sessions can shift from listening to skills practice when that feels most useful.
Online work is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is good for longer conversations and visual cues, phone calls suit people who prefer not to be on camera, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and messaging lets people reflect in writing. These options make therapy more flexible around work, family and time zones, and let therapists and people try different formats until they find what fits best.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
