Tom Marshall

Therapeutic Counselor

Verified

“Hi there! I'm a native English, trauma-informed counsellor supporting expats, changemakers and neurodivergent adults through anxiety, burnout, grief and life transitions, and a natural home for climate distress and poly relationships.”

About Me

Most people who find me are navigating a lot at once — building a life somewhere new, caring deeply about a world that feels like it's unravelling, or being wired a little differently from the people around them. I've experienced this myself. I’m a British-born counsellor who has called the Netherlands home for over a decade. Having built my life across cultures, I understand both the excitement and the quiet ache of wondering where and how you belong. After graduating business school, I realised it wasn't the life I wanted and shifted my career from corporate consulting towards counselling and facilitation. I set-up an association to help young people find purpose, completed a diploma in counselling and Gabor Maté’s Compassionate Inquiry training. Since 2019, I’ve been engaged in the climate movement, facilitating Active Hope circles to help people transform eco-anxiety and climate grief into grounded purpose. I also support clients integrating psychedelic experiences. I’m autistic and surround myself with incredible neurodiverse humans who remind me that maybe we’re not the weird ones. I’ve been actively poly since my mid-twenties, learning both the abundance of love it can offer and the emotional complexity it invites. These lived experiences shape the way I hold space for others exploring connection, authenticity, and belonging, whether that’s in love, in community, or on a fragile planet.

Approach

My approach is relational, somatic, and infused with curiosity. I walk beside you as a fellow human navigating the same beautifully complex world. Together, we slow things down enough to listen: to the body, to emotion, to the wisdom underneath the noise. I draw from trauma-informed counselling, somatic integration work and a compassionate inquiry-informed approach (Dr Gabor Maté), helping to explore what’s behind recurring patterns. Sometimes we talk, sometimes we pause and breathe, sometimes we track sensations or emotion rather than stories. My role is to hold a grounded, compassionate space where you can make sense of what’s moving through you. I especially focus on supporting people living with anxiety, burnout, grief, eco-anxiety or existential overwhelm, as well as neurodivergent folks who experience the world differently (myself included). I also support clients exploring poly relationships, where love and complexity often dance together. Clients often tell me that therapy with me feels clear, compassionate, and real. My aim isn’t to fix you, but to help you remember the parts of you that already know how to adapt, connect, and thrive — even in a world that sometimes feels like it’s on fire.

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Rotterdam, Netherlands

In-person & Online

Services

Counselling — A safe, supportive space to talk through anxiety, burnout, grief, and life transitions with someone who listens without judgement. Trauma-informed somatic therapy — Relational, body-aware work drawing on Compassionate Inquiry, helping you understand recurring patterns and work with what lives in the body, not just the story. Somatic coaching — Using body awareness and gentle attention to sensation to release emotional tension and support personal growth. Eco-anxiety & climate grief support — Grounded practices, including Active Hope, to help transform climate overwhelm into purpose and resilience. Psychedelic integration — Support making sense of and integrating psychedelic experiences into everyday life and growth. Neurodiversity-affirming support — Acceptance-focused, sensory-aware therapy for autistic and other neurodivergent clients (from someone who shares the experience).

Services Offered:

Climate Grief Support
Distress, anxiety, or mourning related to environmental destruction and climate change, sometimes called eco-anxiety or ecological grief.
Coaching
A goal-oriented practice focused on identifying objectives, overcoming obstacles, and taking action, centred on the present and future rather than past difficulties.
Counseling
A form of talk therapy providing a safe, confidential space to explore feelings, thoughts, and behaviours with a trained professional.
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Trauma Counseling
Counselling specifically for people affected by traumatic events, focused on processing what happened and reducing symptoms like flashbacks and hypervigilance.
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Relationship Counseling
Counselling for couples or partners focused on improving communication, rebuilding trust, and strengthening emotional connection.
Mindfulness
The practice of paying deliberate attention to the present moment without judgement, used to reduce stress and increase awareness of automatic reactions.
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Online Therapy
Therapy sessions conducted over video call, phone, or secure messaging, using the same professional methods delivered remotely.
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Therapy
Professional treatment for mental health concerns, providing a structured space for insight, emotional processing, and behavioural change.
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Somatic Therapy
A body-centred approach to healing that uses physical awareness, breath, and movement to release stored tension and trauma, based on the recognition that the body holds and expresses emotional experience.
Somatic Psychotherapy
A form of therapy focused on the connection between mind and body, using body awareness and movement to release held tension, trauma, and emotion.

Works With:

Adolescents
Adults
Individuals
Couples

Area of Expertise

Scope of Practice:

Autism (ASD)
A neurodevelopmental condition affecting social communication, sensory processing, and behaviour patterns, with a wide range of presentations and strengths.
Climate Grief
Distress, anxiety, or mourning related to environmental destruction and climate change, sometimes called eco-anxiety or ecological grief.
Grief, Loss & Bereavement
The emotional, physical, and psychological response to the death of a loved one or another significant loss, varying widely in duration and expression.
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Relocation / Expat
The psychological challenges of moving to a new country or city, including loneliness, culture shock, identity shifts, and loss of social support.
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Self-Esteem
A person's overall sense of their own worth and value. When chronically low, it can drive self-doubt, avoidance, and difficulty in relationships.
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Stress / Burnout
The body and mind's response to prolonged or excessive demands. When sustained, it can lead to emotional exhaustion, detachment, and reduced functioning (burnout).
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Relationship Issues
Difficulties in romantic relationships, including communication problems, trust breakdowns, conflict patterns, or uncertainty about the relationship's future.
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Personal Development
The ongoing process of self-awareness, self-improvement, and reaching one's potential, pursued not because something is wrong but to live more fully.
Life Transitions
Major life changes, such as relocation, retirement, parenthood, or career shifts, that disrupt routine and require psychological adjustment.
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Anxiety
Persistent worry, nervousness, or fear that is disproportionate to the situation and interferes with daily functioning.
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