Marcin Maciejewski, BACP

Marcin Maciejewski is a UK-based licensed counsellor with five years of professional practice and more than a decade of experience in related therapeutic settings. He has accumulated around 3,000 hours supporting people through a wide range of mental health challenges, alongside more than twice that amount of experience in connected roles such as academic mentoring and care in institutional and hospice environments. Marcin works with clients on relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and coping with life changes, and he offers focused support for issues including abandonment, attachment concerns, body image, caregiver stress, dissociation, and family-of-origin dynamics. He also has experience with eating and food-related issues, narcissistic abuse, and difficulties connected to adoption and foster care.

At the center of his practice is a commitment to the therapeutic relationship as the foundation for change. His training spans multiple approaches - including person-centred work, existential perspectives, Gestalt practice, Focusing, and MCBT - which he weaves together to match each person’s needs. He relies on practical tools agreed with clients such as worksheets, mood charts, journalling, mindfulness exercises, genograms to map family patterns, movement and embodiment work, and creative expression to translate insight into daily life. Marcin is a member of BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and maintains ongoing professional development and oversight through two supervisors and peer support within his Gestalt school.

Marcin typically finds that regular weekly sessions are most effective, while remaining flexible to negotiate timing and format with each client. He responds to most communications in the morning between 7-10 am and around mid-day at 2 pm in his time zone, and will reply as practically feasible if matters are urgent. Having been in therapy himself, he brings both professional training and lived understanding to the therapeutic process and aims to make taking the first step easier for those seeking support. He is available to work with clients in English and accepts international clients.

Integrating therapeutic approaches for online care

Marcin draws on person-centred practice to create a respectful, non-judgmental space where the client’s experience guides the work - this approach emphasizes empathy, active listening, and the client’s own capacity for growth. Gestalt techniques are used to increase present-moment awareness, helping clients notice patterns in thoughts, feelings, and bodily experience so they can explore unfinished business and improve self-understanding. Focusing offers a gentle method for attending to the body’s felt sense to access subtle emotional information and clarify inner needs; it can be especially useful when words alone feel inadequate.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. Marcin works collaboratively with each person to identify which methods fit their goals, preferences, and circumstances, and adapts the work over time as needs change. This collaborative stance helps clients feel involved in planning their care and in choosing practical tools that suit them.

Online therapy with Marcin is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which allows for flexibility in scheduling and access across time zones. These formats make it easier to maintain regular sessions, try different communication styles, and integrate therapeutic tools into daily life while working with registered professionals and therapists who can support progress over time.