Mary Prime , BACP

Mary Prime is a professional counsellor based in Milton Keynes in the United Kingdom, with eight years of clinical experience and a BACP accreditation - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She has worked within NHS talking therapies as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner and currently works as a Social Prescriber with Community Mental Health Teams, bringing experience from both statutory and community settings.

Trained initially in person-centered counselling and qualified in 2018, Mary completed a higher level diploma and now integrates multiple counselling modalities into a flexible, client-focused practice. She is also training to become a health coach and can incorporate coaching elements when appropriate to support practical goal setting alongside therapeutic work.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic Mary has predominantly worked online, and her schedule has included evening and weekend appointments to improve accessibility for people with busy lives. Over the years she has supported many hundreds of clients with a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship and family issues, life transitions, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting and career challenges, and trauma-related problems. She has experience supporting people facing suicidal thoughts and self-harm concerns, and she offers particular expertise in working with chronic pain and long-term health conditions, drawing on 16 years of lived experience of chronic pain to inform her empathy and understanding.

Mary has also supported unpaid carers and those managing complex family dynamics, and she brings lived neurodiversity experience to her work, having received later-in-life diagnoses of Autism, ADHD, and dyslexia. She is not currently accepting new clients.