We can all face similar challenges and worries, but each of us is a unique person in our own right. We experience our relationships, work, health and life events from our own individual perspective. This is why I draw on my extensive toolbox of therapies and integrate them in a way that is tailored to your own specific needs. Those therapies include: Talk Therapy, EFT Emotional Freedom Techniques, Matrix Reimprinting, CBT and Transactional Analysis You can read more about these different
Couples Counselling is a specific area of counselling which requires specialised training and qualifications. With a Post Graduate Diploma in Couples Counselling, I’m fully qualified to help you with your relationship problems. When you first meet a partner, life feels wonderful; your relationship is effortless and it’s easy to expect that it will always be that way. However, as time goes on, difficulties and worries can begin to make your relationship feel like hard work. Your first step on the path
I love supervising counsellors and therapists – it gives me great joy and inspiration to help you explore the processes that occur within your therapeutic relationships with your clients, and, to help you develop your professional practice and career. I often think of supervision as making the invisible, visible. With my specialist training and skills I can help you highlight the processes that are happening with your clients, and help you to consider different perspectives which may have been unclear before. Supervision
Marlene Rose Shaw is an amazing therapist and an inspirational person. Highly recommended
Marlene is a professional and supportive therapist who has helped me understand how to manage my life priorities, deal with my problems and I had tried a number of ‘therapies’ over a period of 20 years and it was not until I met with Marlene and read her book ‘Out of Fear and Into Love’ that I started to live happily again. Her gentle and professional approach assured me she was listening and understood what I could do to get my life back on track. Marlene is an excellent therapist and I would highly recommend her to anyone who has any problem from a simple ‘I don’t know what is the best option’ life decision to more complex problems such as depression and anxiety. Thank you Marlene
Marlene is a fabulous therapist. Whatever your particular problem, she can help you think about things in a totally different way and offers you the tools to resolve your issues and move forward to a happier life. Her book is amazingly helpful too. Full of practical advice and really inspirational.
When I first went to see Marlene, I was in a place of mental isolation, suffering from severe panic attacks and great anxiety, which at its worst changed me from a very open, life-loving person, into an agoraphobic, who hardly ever ventured out. Marlene really helped me through that difficult, and harrowing time. With her help, and some positive life changes, I am now back to my life-loving self, with a few cognitive tools from the sessions with Marlene, that help keep my thoughts and emotions in check.
Highly recommended, Marléne is amazing she offers and gives a life changing service
Relationships—this is where we can face our greatest challenges; they try us and reward us, they cause us stress, and they bring us comfort, each and every day of our lives. As I describe in my latest book Out Of Fear Into Love: Life doesn’t have to be a struggle our relationships are like a classroom. They provide a context for us to learn the wisdom lessons of life. Its very often the interactions we have with each other that provide the
If you’ve been experiencing anxiety or panic attacks you’ll know how overwhelming it can be. It can seem as though it’s taking over your whole life but it doesn’t have to be this way. I’ve helped many people overcome anxiety. One of the things I hear often from new clients is that they want me to help them manage their anxiety. They believe that anxiety is something they have to put up with and learn how to cope with. However, in the
People often associate trauma with the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD experienced by those who have very intense experiences in extreme conditions such as war zones. Whilst this is quite true, many people can experience trauma in every day life – and can be carrying trauma from long ago events. Psychologists now describe Big Traumas and Small Traumas. Big Traumas are dramatic events such as such as a physical attack, child abuse, or a car accident. Small Traumas can be an event
If you’re struggling with your confidence you probably find that it stops you from achieving what you want in life. Maybe you know why you lack confidence; perhaps there is a specific reason or a memory or memories you have from the past, or even recently that have led you to feel vulnerable, maybe even powerless. Maybe you feel quite confident at achieving some things, but when it comes to communicating with people you get embarrassed, stuck and tongue tied? See if
Anger is a common problem. It can harm wellbeing, physical health and get in the way of happy relationships. We tend to think of anger as an emotion in itself, yet anger is often a reaction to deeper emotions. These can be hurt, frustration, humiliation and others. The human brain is built to “react to survive” and because of this it’s easy to skip across other emotions and go straight to anger. In your therapy sessions, I can help you to identify
Life is an ongoing work in progress and each of us is on our own personal journey into wisdom. These “Life in Progress” sessions are for you if you have already overcome a pressing issue in counselling and therapy, either with myself or another professional, and you wish to continue working on your personal development on a less frequent basis. You have seen the great value in having sessions, and you wish to continue exploring the possibilities for your own happiness You
It’s frustrating to keep trying to improve relationships, work, confidence yet end up going round in circles with the same old struggles. As a therapist helping thousands of clients, I’ve seen that it’s deep-rooted limiting beliefs which cause this stuckness. These limiting beliefs run in the background of our awareness, like information on a hard drive – and much as we want to make changes they keep running the same old programs and so we fall back into the same old patterns.
Techniques such as Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and Matrix Reimprinting, (collectively known as Energy Psychology) are fast-acting methods which can access the subconscious mind to help you let go of self-limiting beliefs that have been keeping you stuck. By combining these leading edge techniques with traditional therapies such as Talk Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (C.B.T) and Transactional Analysis (T.A) I can help you quickly identify the underlying limiting beliefs that are causing your problems, let them go and create new more helpful
I offer face-to-face counselling and therapy sessions in Miraflores, near Riviera del Sol, Mijas Costa, Malaga. I also offer online sessions across the Costa del Sol and worldwide via Skype or Zoom
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In the many years I’ve been working with clients, I’ve come to understand how guilt can serve us. However, it’s an uncomfortable emotion which we don’t need to hold on to. Watch this video to find out what guilt is really trying to tell us, and what we can do to let it go.
I’ve met a lot of people over the years who’ve asked me, “Why don’t other people treat me as well as I treat them?” I think it’s true to say that all of us have had the experience of being disregarded at some point. I’m sure you’ll agree that it’s a very unpleasant feeling. But the majority of us are basically kind and caring people — in most cases, the person doing the disregarding probably doesn’t even register what they’ve done. They
Human beings experience a wide range of emotions, and as I say in Out Of Fear Into Love, these emotions can come under the umbrella of either Love or Fear. Fear emotions are the negative ones, such as anger, hurt, resentment etc. and of course, love emotions are the positive ones, such as approval, warmth, compassion, kindness etc. But what about the emotion we call sadness? We often think of sadness in a negative sense (we can confuse it with depression) –
What did you think when you read the title of this post? Shouldn’t stop negative thinking – surely she’s wrong? -negative thoughts are not a good idea at all: they make people unhappy, they sabotage self-confidence, they create depression and anxiety. So surely, we should try to stop our negative thoughts from dictating our lives? The problem is that when we try to stop having negative thoughts we give those negative thoughts more power because we are trying to resist them. As
A common issue that couples bring into therapy is how to repair their relationship after an affair. A pattern tends to develop as follows. I’m going to call our example couple, Alex and Sam Alex has had an affair. Alex constantly apologises for the affair and promises NEVER to stray again Sam is devastated, and constantly questions Alex to find out all the details: places, times, what was said and what happened. No matter how many questions Alex answers, Sam persists with
There are times when we need to say something sensitive or even challenging to someone we love. It may be something which is upsetting us, a concern about their well-being, or something that’s impacting our relationship with them. The problem is that the more important the message, and the closer we are to that person, the riskier it can feel to say what we need to say. Humans are social beings. We’re hardwired to try and avoid separation from others because we
Did you know that how you feel, what you think and the choices you make, are mainly triggered by the beliefs embedded in your subconscious?Over thousands of client sessions, I’ve discovered that there are FOUR main limiting beliefs that cause problems for people - in relationships, in work and with self-confidence.This Belief Assessment Quiz is designed to help you discover the percentage to which these 4 self-limiting beliefs may be impacting on your life.Find out why these unhelpful patterns keep being repeated
