Marcia Reid, BACP

Marcia Reid is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) with 14 years' experience. She works with people presenting with stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns. Her practice also covers trauma and abuse, parenting pressures, addictions and grief.

She draws on approaches such as Attachment-Based Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to address problems that affect daily life. Sessions concentrate on practical steps people can use between meetings. Conversations aim to make patterns clearer and help people try different ways of coping.

Marcia has worked with a wide range of issues linked to family life. This includes blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, family of origin problems and fatherhood issues. She also supports people dealing with domestic violence, immigration-related strain and the stress of caregiving roles.

Her clinical style uses client-centred listening alongside techniques from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Motivational Interviewing when they fit the situation. That means a focus on how thoughts and behaviours connect, and on building small, achievable changes. People are offered straightforward strategies for sleep, anger, self-esteem and managing grief.

Sessions are held in English and Marcia accepts clients from outside the UK. The practical aim is to help people find clearer ways of handling relationship tensions and the everyday pressures of merged households and parenting roles.