Marie Potter
A calm, adaptable counsellor for life challenges
About Marie
Marie Potter offers one-to-one counselling for people feeling stuck, overwhelmed or unsure which step to take next. She writes in a calm, straightforward way and invites clients to talk through pressures like stress, anxiety, parenting strain, low self-esteem, depression, addiction and relationship concerns.
Marie aims to help people find clearer direction and more inner strength so they can make decisions that feel right for them. She builds work around a warm, trusting relationship where people can share thoughts and feelings they may not have voiced before.
Background and approach
That relationship is given time to develop, and sessions move at a pace that suits the person. Marie says it is normal for things to feel hard at first and she supports clients through that. Marie is an integrative counsellor, which means she draws on a range of evidence-based therapeutic techniques.
She adapts the way she works to match each person's needs and life situation rather than using a single fixed method. This flexibility helps when people face complex issues such as trauma, grief, compassion fatigue or bipolar challenges. With ten years' experience and membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), Marie combines practical conversation with thoughtful reflection.
She helps people look at patterns of behaviour, manage anger, cope with life changes and address intimacy-related worries. Sessions are offered in English and are delivered online by video, phone, live chat or messaging. The process to begin is selecting Start Therapy, completing a short questionnaire and then arranging sessions to suit the client's schedule.
What Marie works with
Sessions & fees
How Marie adapts therapeutic techniques for online work
Marie commonly uses integrative, evidence-based techniques that are chosen to suit the person's situation. Integrative counselling blends useful elements from different approaches to focus on the person's current struggles, helping with self-understanding and practical steps to change unhelpful patterns.When trauma or grief are central concerns, she may draw on trauma-informed methods that focus on pacing and emotional safety while helping people process distressing experiences. For mood difficulties such as depression or bipolar-related coping, she uses structured conversational techniques to identify patterns, set small goals and build everyday routines.
Choosing the right way of working is a collaborative process. Marie will talk with clients about their goals, needs and preferences and will adjust techniques over time. Together they decide what feels most helpful and make changes as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video sessions are useful for fuller conversation and visual connection, phone sessions suit those who prefer not to be on camera or have lower bandwidth, live chat allows short check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. This mix makes it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life.
| 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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
