About Mary
Mary Harrington is a counsellor who aims to help people make real changes in their lives. She holds a BACP credential and has five years of professional experience. She is based in the United Kingdom and works with adults on a range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma, phobias and addictions.
Mary combines straightforward listening with practical strategies. Sessions focus on what a person wants to change and small steps they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
She keeps a calm, non-judgemental tone and treats people with respect and compassion. Her background includes work supporting people with ADHD and autism, and she draws on that experience when clients raise neurodiversity-related issues. Mary uses a blend of approaches so each plan fits the person rather than forcing a single method.
Typical sessions may use conversational, person-centred techniques to clarify goals, cognitive behavioural ideas to spot and shift unhelpful thoughts, and EMDR where trauma memories are involved. She also offers psychodynamic perspectives and hypnotherapy when they suit the client’s aims. Mary usually schedules sessions on Fridays and replies to messages in the early evening on weekdays.
Her practice uses a subscription model for sessions that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then book a session according to her available times.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Mary often blends client-centred work with cognitive behavioural techniques. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship so people can set their own goals and feel heard. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical strategies to shift unhelpful patterns.Mary also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) when trauma memories are a focus. EMDR involves structured processing of difficult memories to reduce their emotional impact and help the person move forward. Together these approaches give options for emotional support, coping with anxiety or working through trauma-related problems.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has worked or not worked before, then suggest which methods to try. Plans are reviewed regularly so the approach can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text messages to give flexibility. Video calls work well for a fuller conversational session, phone sessions suit those with limited bandwidth, chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and messaging suits ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, family and travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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