Mairi Brown, BACP

Mairi Brown helps people cope with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and addiction. She supports clients dealing with low mood, anger, grief, parenting pressures and identity questions. Mairi also works with concerns such as sleep and eating issues, ADHD, and career change. She is named in the profile as a BACP practitioner and brings six years of experience in the UK.

Mairi aims for conversations that feel straightforward and practical. She treats people with respect, sensitivity and compassion. Sessions are shaped around each person’s needs, not a fixed script. The emphasis is on clear goals and manageable steps forward.

Her approach draws on several well-known therapies. Mairi uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people live by their values. She draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to change patterns of thinking and acting. Emotion-focused and dialectical methods are also part of her toolkit when emotion regulation and close relationships are central issues.

Mairi usually works collaboratively, so the client and counsellor plan what to try together. She adapts language and pace to suit different people. Over time she focuses on skills you can use outside sessions, and on building better ways to handle difficult moments.

To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability. Fees vary by location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time. International clients are not currently accepted.

How Mairi’s approaches translate to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take action aligned with those values. Online sessions can guide practice in everyday life and work on gentle behavioural changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns. In an online conversation this often becomes homework-style tasks and simple experiments to try between sessions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centres on understanding and processing strong feelings, especially in close relationships, and can be used online to practise new ways of expressing emotions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mairi will discuss aims and preferences with each person and suggest which methods to prioritise. That choice is made together, and can change as therapy progresses.

The practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions around work, caring responsibilities and daily routines. It can make attendance easier when travel is difficult and allows for shorter check-ins when that suits a week. The exact session formats are not listed here, so please confirm current options before booking. Registered or accredited professionals offer online counselling and will help adapt exercises to suit the way you prefer to meet.