Marilyn Thomas, BACP

Marilyn Thomas is a UK-based psychotherapist with five years of experience supporting people through a range of life challenges. She is accredited with the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy), and she draws on an integrative approach that adapts to each person's needs while keeping a person-centred foundation at its heart.

Her practice focuses on helping clients manage stress and anxiety, navigate relationship and intimacy concerns, address communication difficulties, and work through low mood and self-esteem issues. Marilyn also offers support for past and present trauma, psychosexual concerns, menopause-related challenges, and family dynamics. She aims to create an accepting, non-judgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be explored openly and change can be pursued at a comfortable pace.

Marilyn combines person-centred listening with therapeutic tools from psychodynamic, cognitive behavioural, and existential perspectives when appropriate, tailoring the mix to what will be most helpful for each client. She frames therapy as a collaborative process and seeks to empower people to make meaningful steps toward a more fulfilling and balanced life. Her approach emphasises respectful curiosity, practical skills, and emotional understanding to support lasting progress.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Marilyn works from a person-centred perspective, which places the client’s experience at the centre of the work and emphasises empathy, acceptance, and collaboration. This approach helps people who want a supportive environment to explore feelings, build self-understanding, and increase confidence in their decisions and relationships.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help identify unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and to develop practical strategies for managing symptoms such as anxiety, low mood, and stress. CBT can be useful for people seeking clear tools and structured steps to tackle specific problems.

Attachment-Based Therapy is another approach Marilyn may draw on when relationship patterns, early bonds, or attachment difficulties are contributing to current struggles. This work focuses on understanding relational styles and fostering safer, more secure ways of relating to others.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and Marilyn collaborates with each person to determine which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She treats the selection of techniques as flexible and responsive rather than fixed.

Online therapy formats - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to access support from different locations. These options provide flexibility in scheduling, allow continuity of care when in-person meetings are difficult, and create multiple ways for clients and registered professionals to connect and make progress.