Deborah Marku, BACP

Deborah Marku is a counsellor who focuses on how thoughts and everyday habits affect wellbeing. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship concerns and eating-related issues. Deborah writes plainly and aims to make sessions feel practical and manageable for busy lives.

She trained and practises within a pluralistic framework, which means she draws on different methods to suit each person. This includes approaches that help shift unhelpful thinking patterns and develop flexible habits in daily life. She also uses approaches that look at parts of the self and solutions that build on what already works.

Deborah has six years of professional experience in the United Kingdom and holds a BACP registration. Her background includes a Master Diploma from the National Centre for Eating Disorders, covering a range of eating and weight concerns. She has also worked with people who identify as neurodivergent, including autism and ADHD, and with related concentration or memory difficulties.

In sessions she treats the person’s experience as the key guide. Conversations focus on practical steps, small habit changes and clearer ways of thinking. Clients can expect a collaborative, down-to-earth way of working that aims to make day-to-day life easier to manage.

To begin, people choose whether to look at immediate coping strategies or longer-term changes. Deborah supports both practical problem solving and deeper work on attachment, self-worth and recovery from past hurt.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

Deborah uses methods that focus on thoughts, habits and personal parts to help people feel steadier day to day. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with more realistic thoughts and practical actions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, supports people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match their values.

She frames online work as a collaborative search for what helps most. Together the therapist and client look at goals, day-to-day routines and what feels possible. They try techniques and adjust the approach based on what the person finds useful rather than following a fixed plan.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week and reduce travel time. It can also allow for shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, or sessions without video when bandwidth is limited. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt exercises, goal-setting and habit tracking to an online setting so therapy fits into everyday life.