About Mairi
Mairi Brown is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship problems, addiction concerns and LGBT issues. She works with clients on grief, self-esteem, sleeping and eating worries, and other life changes. Her approach is warm and respectful and she aims to make the first step feel manageable.
She uses a mix of practical talking and skills work to address worries as they come up. Sessions are shaped around what the person needs, so conversations and exercises are adapted to each situation.
Background and approach
Mairi listens with sensitivity and keeps the focus on achievable next steps. Her practice draws on several evidence-based approaches. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviours.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports people to act in line with their values while tolerating difficult feelings. She also brings elements of Client-Centred Therapy, which means the client leads the pace and topic of sessions, and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills for emotion regulation when needed. Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas are applied in work around intimacy and communication issues.
Mairi holds BACP registration, and she has six years of professional experience working in the United Kingdom. She offers appointments in English and provides sessions through video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. To begin, complete the short matching questionnaire and schedule a session via the Start Therapy button.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and to take action that matches their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and life transitions when someone wants clearer direction.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviours to reduce distress. It is often used for anxiety, depression and sleep or eating concerns because it gives practical steps to try between sessions.
Client-Centred Therapy emphasises the client's perspective and pace, with the counsellor offering empathic listening and reflection. This approach supports people who need time to explore feelings and make decisions at their own speed.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and adapt methods as the work progresses. Clients can expect a mix of talking, exercises and skills practice based on what helps them meet their aims.
Online sessions are offered by registered or accredited professionals in formats that fit modern life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, travel and family commitments while maintaining continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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