Mary Goggin
Supporting practical change with calm, listening care
About Mary
Mary Goggin is a counsellor who blends practical therapy methods with a calm, listening approach. She keeps sessions focused on what matters to the person in front of her and helps them find clearer ways to cope. Mary draws on three years of direct experience supporting people through anxiety, grief and big life changes.
Mary uses a mix of approaches to fit each person's needs. She might use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help someone accept difficult feelings while moving towards valued actions.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy may be used to spot and change unhelpful thoughts. Trauma-Focused and psychodynamic ideas can help untangle past hurts that still affect day-to-day life. Sessions start by agreeing simple goals together and checking progress as therapy continues.
Mary encourages small, practical steps that build new habits and improve self-worth. She may offer information or gentle prompts to try different ways of thinking. The counsellor has an NCPS credential, which is shown as NCPS.
Mary works from the United Kingdom and conducts sessions in English. She also has experience supporting people with relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues, family matters, career questions and issues such as abandonment, codependency or feeling isolated. Her practice can support people affected by trauma, domestic violence, separation and loss, and those coping with chronic shame, guilt or a sense of emptiness.
She also notes experience with HIV/AIDS and with clients who are hearing impaired. Therapy is tailored to the individual and paced to their needs.
What Mary works with
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Sessions & fees
How Mary’s approaches translate to online therapy
Mary commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, and then move towards actions that matter to them. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying practical experiments to change how someone feels and behaves.She treats the choice of approach as a collaborative process. During early conversations she and the person will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful. From there they agree on a plan and adjust it together as progress is reviewed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow a face-to-face feel; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit shorter exchanges, ongoing check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
