Marie Reid
Compassionate counsellor focusing on personal change
About Marie
Marie Reid is a counsellor who uses a client-led approach to help people make changes in their lives. She works from the belief that each person knows their own story and has strengths to draw on. She offers calm, practical support during difficult moments and when big changes are needed.
With three years of professional experience in the United Kingdom, Marie helps people facing issues such as addictions, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, and depression.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with anxiety, stress, grief, sleeping problems and self-esteem struggles. Marie addresses work and career concerns and a wide range of related problems including communication and commitment issues. Her practice also includes support around adoption and foster care matters, blended family pressures, caregiver stress, cancer-related concerns, and the effects of divorce or separation.
She has experience with substance misuse and eating or food-related issues, plus personality and attachment difficulties that can affect relationships. Marie draws on Client-Centred Therapy to put the person's perspective first. She uses Motivational Interviewing to explore readiness for change and Solution-Focused and Narrative techniques to spot practical steps and reframe difficult experiences.
Sessions aim to be straightforward and goal-focused, while honouring each person's story. People who choose Marie can expect respectful listening, clear options for next steps, and collaboration on goals. She accepts international clients and works in English.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled according to availability.
What Marie works with
How Marie works
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Sessions & fees
How Marie's approaches work online
Marie uses Client-Centred Therapy to prioritise the person's own perspective and choices, offering non-judgemental listening and space to make sense of things. This approach helps when someone needs to explore feelings about relationships, loss or life changes.She also uses Motivational Interviewing to help people weigh up change and strengthen commitment when tackling issues like addictions or unhealthy habits. This method focuses on building motivation in small, manageable steps and works well when deciding on practical goals.
Finding the right approach is part of the process, and Marie works collaboratively to decide what fits best. She will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, adapting methods as progress is made and needs shift.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video works well for face-to-face conversation, phone suits shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth, and messaging can help with quick updates or ongoing reflections. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and travel while keeping the focus on clear, achievable steps.
| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
