Mareike Coakley
A calm, practical counsellor for life changes
About Mareike
Mareike Coakley offers support for people facing grief, parenting strains, low self-esteem, depression, and big life changes. She writes simply and listens closely to what matters right now. Mareike aims to make talking about hard things feel manageable and clear.
She works in English from the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration. Mareike draws on several evidence-based techniques and adapts them to each person. Sessions focus on understanding what is happening, finding small practical steps, and noticing unhelpful patterns in day-to-day life.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how early relationships and family history affect current feelings and choices. People bring many different concerns, including abandonment, attachment worries, autism and Asperger Syndrome, chronic illness or pain, divorce and separation, guilt, shame, and loneliness. Mareike breaks these topics into workable pieces so they feel less overwhelming.
She uses straightforward language and concrete tools rather than jargon. Her background includes work in education and experience supporting children, young people, and adults. That experience informs a gentle, patient style and a focus on rebuilding confidence and purpose.
Mareike welcomes feelings that are confusing, angry, or painful and helps people find ways to move forward. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging, with practical options to suit busy lives. Mareike works with each person to set clear goals and to review progress as therapy continues.
What Mareike works with
Sessions & fees
How practical approaches work online
Person-centred work focuses on listening and building a trusting connection so people can explore feelings at their own pace. It helps when someone needs time and acceptance to sort out emotions and identity questions.Cognitive-behavioural techniques look at unhelpful thoughts and behaviour. Sessions use simple exercises and small experiments to test different ways of thinking and coping, which can help with depression and low self-esteem.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mareike will discuss different options and decide together which methods match a person's needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative planning makes it clearer what to try first and how to check progress.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face from wherever they are, while phone sessions can be useful when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing to speaking. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare, or health commitments and can help maintain continuity when life gets busy.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
