Marie Reid, BACP

Marie Reid is a BACP counsellor in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. She works with adults facing addictions, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, depression and other stresses of everyday life. Marie focuses on practical, person-focused conversation rather than labels or judgement.

She uses a client-centred stance that treats the person as the expert in their own story. That means sessions begin by listening to what matters most and building on existing strengths. Marie also draws on motivational interviewing to help people clarify goals and find reasons to change when they feel stuck.

Marie helps people dealing with big life shifts such as bereavement, separation and career change. She also supports those facing family tensions, blended family issues and intimacy-related concerns. Her approach aims to break problems into manageable steps and to identify small, realistic next moves.

Sessions involve talking through current struggles, reviewing what has helped before, and testing out new ways of responding. Narrative techniques are used when telling and re-framing one’s story can reduce shame and open new choices. Solution-focused methods help keep the work concrete and time-efficient.

Her practice suits someone who wants straightforward, respectful discussion and practical tools to try between meetings. To begin, people are invited to use the site matching steps to book a first appointment and outline their main concerns.