Marzena Uphill
Compassionate, practical therapy for everyday challenges
About Marzena
Marzena Uphill helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem and depression. She supports concerns around relationships, intimacy, eating and sleeping, parenting and career strain. Her work also covers family issues, anger, coping with life changes and LGBT-related matters.
Marzena works in a straightforward, respectful way. She believes people are the experts on their own lives and aims to build on strengths. Sessions focus on what matters to the client and on practical steps they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Her practice draws on a mix of approaches. She uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live by their values. Attachment-based ideas inform work on relationship and abandonment issues, and existential perspectives help with meaning and life changes.
Marzena has five years of professional experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She speaks English and Polish and works with people in the United Kingdom and internationally. Typical sessions include talking through current problems, building coping skills, and making small experiments to test new ways of being.
She also helps with body image, chronic illness and caregiver stress, fertility and cancer-related concerns when these come up in therapy. People who choose Marzena can expect a warm, non-judgemental space to talk and practical steps to try between sessions. Her aim is to support clients as they gain clarity, steadier moods and more confidence in daily life.
What Marzena works with
How Marzena works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that suit online therapy and your schedule
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice uncomfortable thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them. It focuses on what matters to you and on taking small actions that match your values, which can help with anxiety, depression and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It teaches straightforward tools to challenge unhelpful thinking and to build new routines, which is useful for anxiety, sleeping problems and low mood.
Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to patterns in relationships and early bonds. It can help when abandonment, trust or intimacy problems keep repeating in current relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Marzena will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and then agree a way of working together. That collaborative process means approaches can be blended or adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow a full face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is low or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for people who prefer writing or need support between sessions. These formats make regular sessions easier to fit around work, family and travel.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Polish
