About Marlene Simpson-Thomas
Marlene Simpson-Thomas is a counsellor and therapist offering face-to-face and online support across a broad range of life challenges and transitions. Her practice encompasses general counselling for adults, as well as specialist work with children, couples, and families. She brings extensive experience as a grief and loss counsellor, having worked with charities specialising in bereavement, and offers dedicated bereavement counselling alongside pre-marital counselling to support couples building strong relationships.
Marlene works with anxiety, stress, depression, and the emotional impacts of trauma and abuse, including childhood trauma, separation, abandonment, and attachment difficulties. She integrates multiple therapeutic approaches—including psychodynamic, person-centred, solution-focused, and cognitive behavioural methods—alongside art therapy to meet individual needs. She also draws on Parks Inner Child Therapy (PICT), a visualisation-based approach designed for those who have experienced childhood abuse and trauma.
Beyond one-to-one work, Marlene facilitates mediation, group work, and workshops. She delivers bereavement workshops in primary and secondary schools and colleges, and is a licensed facilitator for positive parenting programmes through Care for the Family.
Her practice addresses a wide spectrum of concerns including anxiety, panic attacks, depression, life transitions, mid-life and end-of-life issues, and matters relating to culture, race, and identity. Whether you're navigating relationship challenges, processing loss, supporting a child through difficulty, or working through personal trauma, Marlene offers compassionate, tailored therapeutic support.
Qualifications & specialties
Qualifications
- Diploma in Counselling
- Level 5 CBT
Specialises in
- Grief Counselling
- Couples Counselling
- Child and Adolescent Counselling
- Inner Child Therapy
- Mediation Services
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