Marianne Blackmore
Compassionate, practical therapy for everyday struggles
About Marianne
Marianne Blackmore helps people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem or big life changes. She aims to make therapy straightforward and easy to follow. Marianne introduces practical ways to cope and encourages small steps that add up.
She works in English and American Sign Language and practises from Kentucky. Marianne sees building a trusting relationship as the first step in therapy. She focuses on simple, honest conversation and pays attention to what each person needs in the room.
Background and approach
Sessions often include talking through current problems, noticing patterns from the past, and setting small, achievable goals. Her background includes work in education, support for unpaid carers, the creative industries and the transport sector. That variety has shaped an adaptable style that suits different everyday pressures.
Marianne also values creative activities as part of making progress in therapy. She draws on client-centred practice to follow the client’s lead and motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change. Psychodynamic ideas are used when past events appear to affect present feelings and choices.
Marianne lists many concerns she can support, such as burnout, depression, compassion fatigue, relationship strain, sleep problems, anger, career difficulties and addictions. She also attends to issues like body image, abandonment and caregiver stress. If hearing impairment is a factor, she can work using American Sign Language.
Therapy with Marianne is presented as a collaborative process. New clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling sessions that suit their needs.
What Marianne works with
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Listed by Marianne among the ways they work.
Listed by Marianne among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How these approaches work in online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy puts the person’s experience first. The counsellor listens closely and follows the client’s concerns, helping them understand what matters most and decide next steps. This is useful for anxiety, low self-esteem and coping with life changes.Motivational Interviewing focuses on finding the client’s own reasons to change. It uses careful questions and reflections to build motivation and small action plans, which can help with addictions, procrastination and career shifts.
Psychodynamic ideas look at how past experiences shape current feelings and patterns. Talking about early relationships and repeated reactions can make it easier to notice and alter unhelpful habits over time.
Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss the methods above and adapt them to the client’s goals, preferences and pace. Decisions about focus and techniques are made collaboratively during early sessions.
Online therapy here uses video, phone, live chat and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls are good when visual cues help the conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing encouragement and people who find typing easier than speaking.
These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to maintain continuity between sessions with registered or accredited professionals.
| 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
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, American Sign Language
