Marcia Holloway, BACP

Marcia Holloway is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression and addiction. She also supports those coping with relationship and family tensions, trauma and intimacy concerns. Marcia uses a respectful and compassionate style and works to tailor sessions to each person's needs.

She draws on 23 years of experience and uses several talking approaches to suit different problems. Conversations focus on practical steps, building coping skills and looking at what matters most to each person. Sessions can include work on communication, handling change, sleep difficulties and self-esteem.

Marcia often helps people dealing with long-term health issues, chronic pain, cancer and the strain of caregiving. She also works with problems such as abandonment, attachment matters, codependency and substance use. The aim is to reduce daily distress and improve how people manage their lives.

Her approach is collaborative. Marcia listens first, then helps set small, achievable goals. She adapts techniques from cognitive and acceptance-based approaches, as well as client-centred and dialectical ideas, so the work matches a person's situation.

People who choose her can expect clear, down-to-earth conversations. Marcia encourages steady progress and practical strategies so clients can try things between sessions and notice change over time.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice their thoughts and values and then take small, meaningful steps that align with what matters. It is often useful for stress, anxiety and coping with long-term health conditions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical tools to change unhelpful patterns such as worry, low mood or sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and can be helpful for intimacy, abandonment and communication issues.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and review progress so changes can be made if needed.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm the available options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people use talking techniques and practical exercises from their own home or work break while keeping the focus on steady, achievable steps.