About Marcia
Marcia Holloway is a counsellor who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction and relationship strain. She also supports those facing depression, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, low self-esteem and the pressures of career or life change. Marcia is listed for phobias as one of the concerns she addresses.
She holds BACP registration and brings 23 years of experience in the UK. Marcia keeps sessions straightforward and respectful. She adapts conversations to each person’s needs and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions.
Background and approach
Her manner is calm and compassionate while encouraging honest reflection and small, manageable change. Her approach blends several well-known methods. Cognitive behavioural ideas are used to spot and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people live with difficult feelings while committing to what matters most. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections. Marcia also draws on client-centred listening and skills from dialectical behaviour therapy to help manage intense emotions.
These tools are applied flexibly so therapy matches the person rather than the other way round. She pays attention to practical coping skills for everyday life. Sessions can address specific topics such as abandonment fears, body image, chronic illness or substance use.
Marcia aims to support people as they rebuild confidence, improve communication and regain a sense of control in daily life.
How Marcia’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, with practical exercises to reduce symptoms like panic or insomnia. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns from past relationships and how they affect present connections, making it helpful for intimacy, abandonment and communication issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Marcia will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try techniques together to see what fits best. The process is collaborative, so plans are adjusted as progress is made and new needs arise.
Online therapy here is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper discussion, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel and make it easier to keep continuity when circumstances change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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