Marco Centonze, BACP
Person-centred counsellor for everyday challenges
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- 16
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Grief
About Marco
Marco Centonze is a BACP counsellor with 16 years' experience. He supports people with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief, low self-esteem, depression, addictions and parenting concerns. He also helps with sleep and eating issues, anger, career changes and compassion fatigue.
Marco uses a person-centred way of working. That means he focuses on the person in front of him and trusts people have resources to find their own solutions. Sessions aim to create a respectful space where feelings can be named and understood.
Background and approach
He writes and talks plainly in sessions. Marco encourages people to talk about what matters to them, then reflects what he hears back in a clear, warm way. This helps make confusing problems feel more manageable and choose practical next steps.
Before counselling he worked for many years in a high-pressure London advertising agency. That background taught him to untangle complex issues and explain them simply. He brings this clarity to conversations about work stress, life changes and decision-making.
Marco works with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, intimacy-related problems, ADHD, attachment issues and codependency. He also supports clients around adoption and foster care topics, aging issues and chronic illness challenges. Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
What Marco works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
How evidence-based approaches fit with online therapy
Person-centred practice places the client's experience at the heart of sessions. It involves listening closely, reflecting feelings and helping people access their own strengths to tackle stress, grief, relationship struggles and parenting concerns. This approach helps people feel understood and clearer about the next steps.Combined with simple, evidence-based techniques such as behavioural strategies for managing sleep or mood, sessions can include practical exercises and small experiments to try between meetings. These kinds of techniques aim to change daily habits and reduce distress in a step-by-step way, which can be helpful for anxiety, depression and addiction-related concerns.
Finding the right mix of approaches is collaborative. The therapist will work with the client to identify goals and try methods that match those goals and preferences. Adjustments are made as therapy progresses so the plan stays relevant to what the client needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full conversation and non-verbal cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or a short check-in is needed, and messaging suits brief check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options give flexibility to fit sessions around work, family and travel while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
Questions people ask about Marco
What issues does Marco support in sessions?
He supports people with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief, low self-esteem, depression, addictions and parenting concerns among other issues.
How would you describe his therapeutic style?
Marco works in a person-centred way, focusing on the individual's experience and encouraging them to draw on their own resources to find solutions.
What experience does he bring to counselling?
He has 16 years' counselling experience and many years working in a high-pressure London advertising agency, which shaped his ability to clarify complex problems.
Where is Marco based and what credential does he hold?
He is based in the United Kingdom and holds BACP accreditation as supplied in his profile.
Which languages are sessions offered in and are international clients supported?
Sessions are offered in English and Marco accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Marco offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does the subscription and cost work?
Session cost varies with location and therapist availability; care is provided through a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
What steps does someone take to begin counselling?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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