Marcia Holloway

Marcia Holloway is a BACP counsellor in the United Kingdom with 23 years of experience. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strain, family concerns, depression, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, sleep problems, low self-esteem, career doubts, and coping with life changes. She also focuses on compassion fatigue and related concerns.

Marcia listens to what matters most and starts by making time to understand the immediate problem. She uses familiar conversation and practical exercises rather than jargon. Sessions aim to clarify what feels stuck and to test small, manageable steps for change.

Her work draws on several approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based work, Client-Centred methods, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy. That means conversations can include values-based planning, looking at relationship patterns, building problem-solving skills, and learning ways to handle intense feelings.

She treats issues such as abandonment, attachment problems, body image, caregiving stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, communication and control issues, separation and divorce, domestic violence, and substance problems. Marcia will talk through practical ways to manage symptoms and everyday pressures alongside longer-term goals.

Her style is straightforward and focused on what can change now. People meet to set priorities, try out new approaches between sessions, and review what helps. International clients can be seen in English, and session arrangements are confirmed when booking.

How therapeutic approaches are used online

Marcia draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in her online work. ACT focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that align with those values while learning to live alongside difficult thoughts and feelings. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and how early bonds influence current interactions, which can help with intimacy, abandonment, and communication issues.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will discuss your goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try. That choice is reviewed as you go and adjusted to fit what helps most.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm which options are offered when you book. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. They also let people join from different locations if they live abroad. Registered or accredited professionals and therapists routinely adapt exercises, worksheets and conversational tools to work over distance, so practical steps and skills practice are possible in online sessions.