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bBeside You TherapyMarcia Radcliffe, RP (Qualifying)
Therapy services

How Marcia can help.

Twelve focused practice areas, drawn from evidence-based modalities, delivered with care and pace.

01

Individual Therapy

Confidential, one-to-one psychotherapy tailored to your unique needs, goals, and pace. Therapy offers a compassionate, collaborative space to explore life's challenges, process difficult emotions, and gain deeper insight into yourself. Whether you are navigating anxiety, stress, relationship difficulties, grief, trauma, life transitions, or feeling emotionally overwhelmed, Marcia helps you build healthier coping strategies, strengthen self-awareness, and create more stability and balance.

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What this might look like in session
  • Goal-setting and a shared plan reviewed across sessions
  • Skills work for emotional regulation and grounding
  • Reflection on patterns, values, and relationships
02

Couples Therapy

When relationships feel strained, disconnected, or stuck in recurring conflict, it can be difficult to know how to move forward. Couples therapy provides a supportive, non-judgmental space where partners can strengthen communication, rebuild trust, and better understand one another. Marcia's approach is collaborative and tailored to each couple, integrating CBT, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), The Gottman Method, attachment-based interventions, and trauma-informed care.

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What this might look like in session
  • Improve communication and conflict resolution
  • Rebuild trust and emotional intimacy
  • Navigate infidelity, betrayal, or unresolved hurt
  • Develop healthier boundaries and relationship patterns
  • Manage parenting, blended family, or life-transition stressors
  • Clarify goals and expectations within the relationship
03

Anxiety & Stress Support

Compassionate, evidence-based support for managing anxiety, overwhelm, and chronic stress. Together, Marcia and her clients explore the thought patterns, emotional triggers, and nervous-system responses that keep anxiety cycles going. Sessions focus on slowing things down, increasing self-awareness, and developing practical coping tools — drawing from CBT, mindfulness, and trauma-informed care — to build resilience, emotional balance, and a greater sense of calm and control.

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What this might look like in session
  • Mapping triggers and the cycles that keep anxiety alive
  • Cognitive and somatic skills for everyday regulation
  • Gentle exposure and pacing where useful
04

Depression & Emotional Numbness

Supportive, structured therapy to help you reconnect with yourself, your emotions, and a sense of meaning and hope. Depression and emotional numbness can leave life feeling heavy and disconnected. Using CBT, behavioural activation, and compassionate reflection, Marcia helps clients gently rebuild motivation, restore emotional awareness, and reconnect with the small, ordinary moments that bring comfort, purpose, and joy.

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What this might look like in session
  • Small, doable steps that rebuild momentum
  • Working with the inner critic and hopelessness
  • Reconnecting to values, relationships, and rest
05

Trauma-Informed Therapy

A compassionate, safety-centred approach to healing the impact of trauma and overwhelming life experiences. Marcia recognises how past wounds can affect emotions, relationships, self-worth, and the nervous system long after the events have passed. Sessions move at a pace that is manageable and respectful of your needs — focusing first on safety, stabilisation, and emotional regulation before any deeper processing work.

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What this might look like in session
  • Resourcing and grounding before any processing
  • Window-of-tolerance work and nervous-system care
  • Respect for choice, consent, and your timing
06

Self-Esteem & Confidence Support

Therapy focused on strengthening self-worth, quieting the inner critic, and developing a healthier, more compassionate relationship with yourself. Many people carry longstanding beliefs of not being "good enough," shaped by past experiences, relationships, or repeated setbacks. Marcia helps clients explore these patterns with curiosity and care, challenging harsh self-judgments and building a more balanced, accurate understanding of who they are.

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What this might look like in session
  • Naming and softening shame patterns
  • Skills for self-compassion and self-trust
  • Reclaiming voice in relationships and work
07

Relationship & Boundary Support

Therapy focused on building healthier, more secure, and more fulfilling relationships — with partners, family, friends, and yourself. Relationship difficulties often involve patterns connected to attachment, communication, self-worth, people-pleasing, or difficulty setting boundaries. Marcia helps clients better understand their emotional needs and the ways past experiences may be influencing present connections, supporting clearer communication and stronger, more grounded boundaries.

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What this might look like in session
  • Understanding attachment patterns
  • Communication skills and assertiveness
  • Boundaries that honour your values
08

Immigration & Cultural Adjustment

Support for the complex emotional experience of building a life in a new country. Immigration often involves far more than practical adjustment — it can include grief, identity shifts, loneliness, cultural disconnection, family pressures, and the ongoing challenge of finding belonging. Marcia offers a compassionate space to process both the visible and invisible losses that accompany migration, while honouring the resilience and courage of starting over.

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What this might look like in session
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Loss, grief, and the work of adaptation
  • Family, intergenerational, and role transitions
09

Life Transitions

Support through seasons of change, loss, grief, and uncertainty. Therapy can offer a steady place to process what's ending, what's unfolding, and who you are becoming in the midst of it. Together, Marcia and her clients make space for reflection, grounding, and healing — navigating life's shifts with greater clarity, resilience, and self-compassion.

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What this might look like in session
  • Career, relational, and life-stage change
  • Grief and identity work
  • Building stability inside uncertainty
10

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

Emotionally Focused Therapy helps individuals and couples recognise the patterns and emotional cycles that keep them feeling disconnected, misunderstood, or stuck. Grounded in attachment science and supported by extensive research, EFT focuses on strengthening emotional connection, deepening understanding, and creating more secure, responsive relationships — moving clients toward greater emotional safety and healthier communication.

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What this might look like in session
  • Recognising the cycle that keeps you stuck
  • Working with attachment needs and protective responses
  • Building new ways of connecting and being heard
11

Gottman Method

Rooted in more than 40 years of relationship research, the Gottman Method provides practical, evidence-based tools to help couples strengthen connection, navigate conflict more effectively, and build healthier patterns of communication. Using structured assessments and targeted interventions, Marcia helps couples identify their unique strengths and growth areas, deepening friendship, trust, intimacy, and shared meaning.

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What this might look like in session
  • Conflict management and repair skills
  • Friendship, intimacy, and shared meaning
  • Assessment-informed work tailored to your relationship
12

Faith-Integrated Therapy

For clients who desire it, Christian faith can be thoughtfully and respectfully integrated into the therapeutic process. This may include prayer, Scripture, spiritual reflection, and exploring questions of meaning, identity, and healing through a Christian lens. Faith integration is always optional, always client-led, and approached with care, openness, and respect for your personal relationship with God, your experiences, and your pace.

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What this might look like in session
  • Optional, withdrawable at any time
  • Reflection on values, hope, meaning, forgiveness
  • Clinically grounded and client-directed
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