Rate Mary Prime

About Me

I’m a Person?Centred counsellor who brings both professional training and lived experience into my work. I know what it’s like to face long?term challenges — I’ve lived with chronic pain for over 16 years, and I’ve recently undergone two spinal surgeries to repair a herniated disc in my lower back. This personal journey has shaped the way I support clients who are navigating chronic pain, long?term health conditions, fatigue, burnout, and the emotional impact these experiences can have on daily life.

I also specialise in working with neurodivergent clients, particularly autistic people and people with ADHD. I was diagnosed later in life myself, after seeking an assessment for my neurodivergent child and realising that I had many of the neurodivergent traits that I was seeing in my child and learning about through researching Autism and ADHD. — a story that many of my female clients relate to. I understand how easy it is to be missed or misunderstood growing up, especially if you were quiet, well?behaved, or masking your struggles. This lived experience helps me offer a space where you don’t have to explain or justify your neurodivergence — I get it, and I meet you with genuine understanding.

Previously, I worked in an NHS Talking Therapies service as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP), supporting people with anxiety and depression using low?intensity CBT approaches. If you feel you’d benefit from a more structured approach, I’m happy to integrate CBT tools, psychoeducation, and optional homework into our work together — always at your pace, and only if it feels right for you.

I’m also currently training as a health coach, which allows me to bring a holistic perspective to therapy. This means I can support you not only with your emotional wellbeing, but also with lifestyle changes, stress, energy, balance, and overall health goals if that’s something you’d find helpful.

How Therapy With Me Works

Online counselling with me is gentle, collaborative, and centred entirely around you. You can message me whenever something comes up, and in our live sessions we’ll explore whatever feels most important to you. I won’t judge you, rush you, or tell you what you “should” do. Instead, I offer a warm, accepting space where you can talk openly, make sense of your feelings, and reconnect with your strengths and what really matters to you.

Clients often tell me they feel safe, understood, and able to open up in ways they haven’t been able to elsewhere. My aim is to help you feel more grounded, more confident in your voice, and more connected to yourself — whether you’re dealing with anxiety, low mood, chronic pain, neurodivergence, relationship difficulties, or simply feeling stuck or overwhelmed.

If you’re looking for a counsellor who is genuine, compassionate, and easy to talk to — someone who truly understands both the emotional and physical challenges you’re facing — I’d be honoured to support you.

Specialisms:

* Chronic pain and long?term health conditions

* Neurodivergence (Autism, ADHD)

* Anxiety and depression

* Low self?esteem and insecurity

* Burnout and overwhelm

* Trauma?aware support

* Life transitions

* Holistic wellbeing and lifestyle support

My Promise to You

- I will meet you with warmth, honesty, and acceptance.

- I will never judge you or rush you.

- I will support you in becoming the version of yourself you want to be.