Mary McConville
Practical, compassionate counselling for everyday struggles
About Mary
Mary McConville is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with six years of clinical experience and a BACP registration. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, low mood and self-esteem. She also supports people with relationship and intimacy-related issues and those coping with life changes.
Her work is straightforward and respectful. She listens and adapts conversations to what each person needs. People can expect practical discussion alongside reflection, so sessions are both about understanding and making small changes.
Background and approach
Mary uses a range of approaches depending on the situation. She draws on client-centred ideas to keep the person’s priorities central. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques are used when people want tools to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviours.
She also uses mindfulness practices to help people manage stress and stay present day to day. Psychodynamic ideas can help uncover recurring patterns that affect mood and relationships. Mary explains these methods in plain language and applies them to everyday problems.
Mary works with a broad set of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief, eating issues, compassion fatigue and ADHD. Her additional focus areas include ageing and geriatric issues, chronic pain or illness, caregiver stress, financial worries and life purpose. Sessions are offered in English for people located in the United Kingdom.
Her approach aims to be compassionate and practical. She supports people to identify small, manageable steps that fit their life and goals.
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Sessions & fees
Therapy approaches and how they work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and priorities and creates space to be heard without judgement. It helps when someone needs support to make decisions, to feel understood, or to clarify what matters to them.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change patterns of thinking and behaviour that keep problems going. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and recurring unhelpful reactions because it gives clear strategies to practise between sessions.
Finding the right approach is usually a team effort. Mary will discuss goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit the issue and the person. Over the first few sessions she will check in and adapt the plan so therapy feels useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers a flexible way to work through difficulties using video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls are close to an in-person meeting and work well for deeper conversations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, step-by-step problem solving, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep therapy going around work, family and health demands.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
