Marianne Blackmore, BACP

Marianne Blackmore is a BACP credentialed therapist based in Kentucky with five years of professional experience. She emphasizes building a strong, trusting therapeutic relationship and brings a calm, empathetic presence to sessions. Marianne has worked across education, with carers - including parents, young carers, spousal carers and those caring for older adults - and in creative industries and transport, which informs a flexible, practical approach to support.

She values creativity as part of the therapeutic process and often incorporates imaginative or expressive elements when they suit a person's goals. Marianne focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, compassion fatigue and burnout, and she supports work on relationships, parenting, self-esteem, motivation and career difficulties. She also works with trauma and abuse, addictions, sleep problems, anger, ADHD and a range of family and interpersonal challenges, including divorce and separation, communication problems and codependency.

Additional focus areas include abandonment, body image, caregiver issues and stress, co-morbidity, dissociation, fatherhood issues, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and related concerns. Marianne is able to provide services in English and American Sign Language and has a particular experience working with people who are hearing impaired. Her clinical work draws on Client-Centered Therapy, Motivational Interviewing and Psychodynamic Therapy so sessions are tailored to each person's needs and strengths.

BACP indicates membership of a recognized professional body for counselling and psychotherapy and reflects a commitment to professional standards. Marianne approaches therapy from the view that each person is the expert in their own story and aims to empower clients to explore themselves, address difficulties and build on existing strengths. Marianne is not currently accepting new clients.