Marzena Uphill , BACP

Marzena Uphill is a UK-based licensed therapist with five years of professional experience supporting people through a wide range of life challenges. She works with individuals facing relationship and communication difficulties, family and work-related stressors, loss and bereavement, anxiety, depression, and the long-term effects of childhood trauma. Her practice focuses on helping clients build greater self-awareness, improve self-esteem and confidence, and develop practical coping strategies that fit their everyday lives.

Marzena approaches therapy from a collaborative, strengths-based perspective, believing that each person is the expert of their own story and that existing strengths can be used to overcome what feels overwhelming. She emphasizes the courage it takes to seek change and aims to offer support and empowerment throughout the therapeutic journey. While therapy can be emotionally demanding at times, she views it as a process that can also bring inspiration and meaningful personal growth.

In her work she draws on a mix of theoretical approaches, including holistic and psychodynamic ideas, holding that present-day difficulties often reflect unconscious patterns and influences from past relationships and experiences. Marzena is a BACP member - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and provides therapy in English and Polish for clients in the United Kingdom and beyond.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Marzena draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help clients learn practical ways to notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that reflect their values. ACT can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes by focusing on acceptance and committed action. She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy to explore how early relationship patterns shape current connections and emotional responses - this approach can help with attachment issues, abandonment concerns, and relationship difficulties. In addition, Marzena applies Client-Centered Therapy principles by creating a compassionate, nonjudgmental space where the client’s perspective and strengths guide the pace and focus of the work.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process, and Marzena works collaboratively with each person to determine what best fits their needs, goals, and preferences. She treats the selection of methods as a shared decision, adjusting strategies as therapy progresses to match what proves most helpful.

Online therapy offers flexibility and accessibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to arrange sessions around work, family, and travel, and they allow licensed professionals to maintain continuity of care when in-person meetings are difficult. For many people, remote sessions provide a practical way to engage in consistent, meaningful therapy from different locations.