About me
I offer a calm, grounded space where you can take a breath and begin to lay down the weight you’ve been carrying, so we can make sense of what’s yours to hold, and what never should’ve been.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or struggling with anxiety, depression or a sense of disconnection, therapy can help you make sense of who you are in the context of your life, relationships, and environment.
Whether you’re facing difficulties in relationships, processing painful experiences, or unsure where to begin, all of you is welcome: the parts that feel certain, and the parts that don’t.
Through counselling, you can:
- Slow down and reconnect with yourself
- Understand your thoughts, emotions and patterns more deeply
- Develop self-compassion and clarity
- Make choices that feel more aligned with who you are
- Explore and heal from past experiences or trauma
- Strengthen relationships with yourself and others
In our work together, I offer:
- A calm, non-judgemental space
- A person-centred, humanistic approach that honours your individuality
- Sensitivity to the wider social and cultural pressures and expectations that shape your experiences
- Support to explore, reflect and make sense of what’s happening in a way that feels safe and empowering
- An inclusive, LGBTQ+ affirming practice where your identity and experiences are respected and valued
In practice, this might mean:
- Being invited to consider questions or perspectives you've never explored before
- Looking at your thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and experiences in ways that deepen your understanding of yourself
- Exploring patterns you are repeating
- Understanding why parts of yourself feel conflicted, and the roles these parts play
- Consider how we are 'wired' as humans and how this has played a role in your life
- Being challenged in ways that can encourage personal growth
- Experiential techniques to connect with self beyond the thinking mind
- Finding ways to connect with any numbness/dissociation/disconnection
- You might find greater clarity, learn to navigate your emotions with more ease, or reconnect with the parts of yourself that you've lost.
I currently offer face to face and online sessions.
Face to face sessions are available in Chorlton, South Manchester. Please drop me a message to enquire.
For more info about my practice, please check out my website, and feel free to get in touch with any questions.
Please note: I have only have online slots available for Monday day time, or Tuesday evenings.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Post Graduate Diploma with Distinction in Counselling and Psychotherapy
- Counselling Skills and Studies Certificate
- Currently work as a Counsellor at Rape Crisis
- Experience working in the NHS Talking Therapies service at Step 3 Counselling
- Experience working with people with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses, along with those closest to them, such as family, friends and carers
- Volunteered for the Samaritans for over 4 years
- BACP registered member
- Fully insured
- ICO registered
I have undertaken additional training in areas such as:
- Intrusive memories and flashbacks
- Relational trauma / attachments
- Trauma informed mindfulness
- Sexual abuse
- Pre-trial therapy
- Working with shame, flashbacks, intrusive thoughts/memories
- Bereavement - working with grief and loss
- Unconscious bias
- Anti-racism
- Moral injury (feeling of powerlessness – seeing/doing something deeply wrong and not having ability to stop it)
- Anxiety
- Safeguarding adults and children
- Working with the parts of self
- Qualified yoga teacher, with training in trauma informed yoga, as I understand the importance of physical movement and mindfulness to help mental health.
- I have also personal experience with free movement, solution focused hypnotherapy, and coaching.
I continue to educate myself through professional CPD and receive regular supervision to ensure my practice is ethical and within my ability to help.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Counselling for digital creators (see website for more info)
Therapies offered
Photos & videos
Fees
£50.00 - £60.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I currently only have online sessions available for Monday day time, or Tuesday evenings.
£60 for a face-to-face in the therapy room session.
£50 for a 50-minute online session.
Payment can be made via bank transfer (or cash if sessions are in person), all details are within a professional working agreement shared beforehand.
Concessionary rates are available for no/low income which I am happy to discuss.
When I work
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Further information
I have experience in supporting people with an online presence, having worked with creative entrepreneurs such as; content creators, vloggers, podcasters, influencers, public figures.. those navigating visibility in digital spaces, and industry personnel in these spaces. If your work or life is “out there” in some way, I understand the emotional toll that can take, and offer a confidential, grounded space to show up exactly as you are, no performance needed. Please see my website and Creator Counselling for more information.
https://www.mairiwilsontherapy.com/services/creator-counselling
