Molly — Integrative Counsellor in Cambridge
At a Glance
- Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
- MS, Marriage and Family Therapy (US-trained) · Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT, US-trained) — qualifications accepted by BACP
- Individual counselling · Couples counselling · Family therapy · Mindfulness · Coaching · LGBTQIA+ affirming counselling · Neurodiversity-informed counselling
- Online — video (Zoom or equivalent) and telephone
- Cambridge — currently online only
- Adults (18+) · Couples · Families · Workplace / EAP clients · LGBTQIA+ clients · Neurodivergent clients
- Individual sessions: £65 · Couples and family sessions: £85
- Monday to Friday, daytime and evenings
- Free 15-minute consultation — no commitment, no pressure
Molly’s Approach
“I believe that each person holds genuine strength, even when it feels out of reach. My role is to walk alongside you — not to direct or fix, but to create the kind of space where you can begin to find your own way forward.”
Counselling in Cambridge — About Molly
Something has brought you here. Whether it’s anxiety that’s been building quietly for years, a relationship that’s lost its footing, the weight of something you haven’t been able to put into words, or simply a sense that things could be different — you don’t have to carry it alone.
Molly is an integrative counsellor based in Cambridge, offering online counselling to individuals and couples across the UK. She holds a Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy and is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist — qualifications earned through internationally respected US training that are fully recognised and accepted by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), of which she is a Registered Member. With over 3,000 client hours of experience across university mental health services, specialist trauma care, and community mental health agencies, Molly brings both breadth and depth to her counselling work.
Her approach to counselling in Cambridge and online is integrative and relational — meaning she draws on a range of evidence-based approaches, shaped by what is most useful for the specific person in front of her, rather than applying a single method to everyone.
Background & Training
Molly’s therapeutic training is rooted in systemic and relational theory — a framework that understands each person within the context of their relationships, their history, and the wider world they inhabit. Trained in the United States in Marriage and Family Therapy, she brings a genuinely international perspective to her counselling practice that is grounded in rigorous clinical training and fully aligned with UK professional standards through her BACP registration.
Her experience spans some genuinely demanding clinical settings: embedded mental health support within university residence halls, trauma-focused counselling at a specialist sexual violence resource centre, and community mental health work serving people from widely diverse backgrounds. Each of these settings shaped her ability to hold complexity, stay present with distress, and adapt sensitively to each person’s needs.
Molly’s own experience as someone born in India and adopted transracially and internationally to the United States gives her a grounded, personal understanding of questions around cultural identity, belonging, displacement, and the complexity of navigating multiple senses of self. This is not an abstract clinical competency — it is lived experience, and it shapes the quality of attention she offers to clients navigating similar questions.
Molly is committed to ongoing professional development and engages in regular supervision. She independently pursues continuing education in areas including grief support, trauma-focused approaches, and relationship therapy — ensuring that the counselling she offers in Cambridge and online reflects current best practice.
Therapeutic Approaches
Molly’s integrative approach means she draws on a range of therapeutic frameworks, choosing what best fits the individual or couple she is working with rather than applying a single method to everyone.
Systemic and Relational Therapy
At the foundation of Molly’s counselling work is a systemic perspective — the understanding that we cannot fully understand a person in isolation. We are all shaped by our relationships, our families, our cultural contexts, and the wider systems in which we live. Systemic therapy explores these connections to understand patterns of behaviour and experience that may be difficult to shift through individually focused work alone. This approach is particularly valuable in couples and family counselling in Cambridge and online, and also informs Molly’s work with individuals.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Emotionally Focused Therapy is a structured, evidence-based approach primarily used in couples counselling, with strong applications in individual work too. Drawing on attachment theory, EFT helps people identify and express the deeper emotional needs that often lie beneath conflict, withdrawal, or disconnection. For couples navigating relationship difficulties, it creates opportunities to move from patterns of blame and defensiveness towards greater understanding and emotional closeness. Molly has specialist training in EFT and brings it to her couples counselling online.
Trauma-Informed Counselling
Trauma-informed practice runs through all of Molly’s counselling work — not only when trauma is the presenting issue. A trauma-informed approach means understanding how past experiences of harm, loss, or distress shape present behaviour and feelings, and creating therapeutic conditions that feel genuinely safe. Molly has specific experience working with survivors of sexual violence, abuse, and other significant adverse experiences, and her trauma counselling online draws on this depth of clinical background.
Mindfulness-Based Approaches
Mindfulness-based techniques — developing intentional, non-judgemental awareness of present experience — have strong evidence across a range of presentations including anxiety, stress, and emotional regulation. Molly integrates mindfulness throughout her counselling work rather than treating it as a standalone programme, drawing on these practices where they are genuinely useful for the individual.
Areas of Focus
Molly offers counselling in Cambridge and online across the UK for a wide range of presentations. The following are areas she works with regularly and has specific experience in.
Anxiety and panic
If anxiety has been making everyday life feel harder than it should — whether that’s generalised worry, social anxiety, health anxiety, or panic attacks — counselling in Cambridge or online can offer a space to understand what is driving it and explore ways of responding differently. Molly offers anxiety counselling online for adults across the UK.
Depression and low mood
Persistent low mood, loss of motivation, emotional flatness, or a quiet sense of hopelessness can take many forms and it rarely looks the way people expect. Molly works with individuals experiencing depression and low mood, helping them understand the patterns behind it and find a way through.
Trauma and PTSD
Molly has extensive experience working with trauma survivors, including those who have experienced sexual violence, abuse, and other adverse experiences. Her trauma counselling online is sensitive, paced, and grounded in trauma-informed practice. Online trauma counselling means you can access support from wherever feels safest for you.
Relationship and couples difficulties
Couples counselling online with Molly draws on her specialist Marriage and Family Therapy training and expertise in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). Whether you are navigating communication breakdown, recurring conflict, emotional disconnection, or the aftermath of a betrayal, Molly creates a balanced, non-blaming space for both partners. Couples counselling Cambridge and online is available for adults across the UK.
Family therapy
Molly offers online family therapy for families navigating difficult dynamics, major transitions, or conflicts that feel stuck. Her systemic training allows her to work with families as a whole — understanding relational patterns rather than locating difficulties in individuals.
Life transitions
Major life changes — redundancy, relocation, relationship endings, parenthood, career shifts, retirement — can unsettle your sense of who you are and where you are going. Molly works with adults navigating transitions of all kinds, both chosen and unchosen, through online counselling across the UK.
Cultural identity and belonging
Molly has a particular understanding of questions around cultural identity, transracial adoption, migration, displacement, and navigating multiple cultural contexts. If questions of belonging, identity, or not fully fitting one place have been part of your experience, Molly brings both professional training and personal understanding to this work.
Grief and bereavement
Grief counselling online with Molly offers a compassionate space for those carrying loss — whether recent or longstanding, expected or sudden. Bereavement counselling online means you can access support from wherever you are. Grief does not follow a timetable, and there is no right way to experience it.
Self-esteem and shame
Chronic self-criticism, shame, perfectionism, and a deep-seated sense of not being enough are among the most common and most painful things people bring to counselling. Molly works with individuals to develop a kinder, more grounded relationship with themselves.
LGBTQIA+ affirming counselling
Molly offers fully affirming counselling for LGBTQIA+ individuals and couples. Your identity and community are welcomed and respected — not treated as a presenting problem. LGBTQIA+ counselling Cambridge and online is available for adults across the UK. Molly is attuned to the specific pressures and experiences that LGBTQIA+ people may face, including those related to identity, disclosure, discrimination, and relationships.
Neurodiversity-informed counselling
Molly works in a neurodiversity-informed way with adults who have received or are exploring a diagnosis of ADHD, autism, or related conditions. Neurodiversity counselling online with Molly is tailored to the individual — both in the content of the work and in how sessions are structured.
Workplace stress and burnout
The particular exhaustion of workplaces that demand more than is sustainable — chronic overload, difficulty with boundaries, the sense of never being enough. Molly works with professionals experiencing work-related stress and burnout, including those accessing support through workplace EAP arrangements.
Anger and emotional regulation
If anger, emotional intensity, or difficulty regulating your responses is affecting your relationships or your daily life, counselling can offer a space to understand where these patterns come from and develop new ways of responding.
Abortion, loss and reproductive grief
Molly offers compassionate, non-judgemental counselling online for individuals navigating the emotional dimensions of abortion, miscarriage, infertility, and reproductive loss. This is a confidential space free from judgement.
Domestic violence and abuse
Molly has clinical experience supporting survivors of domestic violence and emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. Online counselling means you can access support safely and privately.
Online Counselling in Cambridge and Across the UK
Molly offers online counselling only, via secure video call (Zoom or equivalent) and telephone. As a Cambridge-based counsellor offering online sessions, she works with adults across the UK — wherever you are, you can access her support.
Sessions are 50 minutes. Whether you are looking for short-term focused work around a specific issue or longer-term exploratory counselling, Molly will work with you to find a pace and structure that fits.
Sessions are confidential. There are limited circumstances in which this may need to change — for example, if there is a serious risk of harm to you or others. Molly will explain these clearly before any work begins.
Location
Cambridge — currently online only
Molly offers online counselling to individuals and couples based in Cambridge and across the surrounding area — including St Neots, Huntingdon, Ely, Newmarket, St Ives, Saffron Walden, Royston, Histon and Impington, Waterbeach, and Cottenham. If you are based anywhere else in the UK, online sessions are available nationwide.
| St Neots | 28 mins |
| Huntingdon | 22 mins |
| Ely | 25 mins |
| Newmarket | 20 mins |
| St Ives | 22 mins |
| Saffron Walden | 28 mins |
| Royston | 25 mins |
| Histon & Impington | 10 mins |
| Waterbeach | 12 mins |
| Cottenham | 15 mins |
The journey times above show how long it takes to reach Cambridge by the fastest available transport — useful if face-to-face sessions become available in the future.
Molly’s online counselling is particularly popular with clients based in St Neots, Huntingdon, and Ely who prefer the flexibility of video sessions over travelling into Cambridge. Online sessions are available to anyone across the UK.
Fees
- Individual sessions: £65 per session
- Couples and family sessions: £85 per session
As part of Hope Therapy’s team of 90+ qualified counsellors, Molly is matched to clients where there is a strong therapeutic fit. Counselling in Cambridge and online with Hope Therapy starts from £65 — significantly more accessible than many comparable private practices.
Book a Free Consultation
If you are looking for a counsellor in Cambridge or would like to access online counselling from anywhere in the UK, a free 15-minute consultation is a good place to start. There is no commitment and no pressure — just a chance to ask questions and find out whether Molly is the right fit for you.
Hope Therapy’s team is also available by phone 24 hours a day if you would prefer to speak to someone before booking.
Book your free consultation: https://calendly.com/hopetherapy/15-minute-consultation
More Info
| Qualifications | Master of Science, Marriage and Family Therapy (MS, MFT) — US-trained, accepted by BACP, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT, US-trained) |
| Professional membership | Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) |
| NCPS | Hope Therapy & Counselling Services is an Organisational Member of the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) |
| Services | Individual counselling · Couples counselling · Family therapy · Mindfulness · Coaching · LGBTQIA+ affirming · Neurodiversity-informed |
| Session format | Online — video (Zoom or equivalent) and telephone |
| Session length | 50 minutes |
| Availability | Monday to Friday, daytime and evenings |
| Individual fee | £65 per session |
| Couples/family fee | £85 per session |
| Location | Cambridge — currently online only |
| Online coverage | UK-wide |
| Languages | English |
| Last reviewed | April 2026 |
| Booking | https://calendly.com/hopetherapy/15-minute-consultation |
Further Areas Molly Works With
- Abortion and reproductive loss — counselling online
- Abuse — counselling for abuse survivors online
- Affairs and betrayal — relationship counselling online
- Anger management counselling online
- Anorexia and eating difficulties — online counselling
- Anxiety counselling in Cambridge and online
- Bereavement counselling online
- Bulimia and eating difficulties — online counselling
- Bullying — counselling and support online
- Cancer — counselling and emotional support online
- Career counselling online
- Couples counselling online
- Cultural identity and belonging — counselling online
- Depression counselling online
- Discrimination — counselling and support online
- Domestic violence — counselling for survivors online
- Emotional abuse — counselling online
- Family therapy online
- Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) — counselling online
- Grief counselling online
- Health anxiety counselling online
- Identity and belonging — counselling online
- Infertility — counselling and emotional support online
- LGBTQIA+ affirming counselling in Cambridge and online
- Loneliness — counselling online
- Low self-confidence — counselling online
- Low self-esteem — counselling online
- Miscarriage — counselling and emotional support online
- Neurodiversity counselling online — ADHD and autism
- OCD counselling online
- Panic attacks — counselling online
- Passive aggressive behaviour — counselling online
- Physical abuse — counselling for survivors online
- Postnatal depression — counselling online
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) — trauma counselling online
- Pregnancy and birth — counselling and emotional support online
- Redundancy — counselling and support online
- Relationship counselling online
- SAD — seasonal affective disorder counselling online
- Separation and divorce — counselling online
- Separation anxiety — counselling online
- Sexual abuse — counselling for survivors online
- Sexuality — affirming counselling online
- Social anxiety counselling online
- Spirituality — counselling online
- Stress counselling online
- Trauma counselling online
- Work-related stress — counselling online
- Listing ID: 1245
- Type of Support: Counselling
- Types of Counselling: Adults (18+), Marriage or Couples Counselling, LGBTQ+ Support
- Type of Session: Online (Via Zoom & Skype), Phone
- Availability: Daytime, Evening