Marion is a former social worker specialised in child protection, school based social work and adoption. She has worked with people in the penal (prison) system, psychiatric care, traumatised adolescents, the chronically sick and dying, homeless women and with women in the sex industry. She currently works with primary school aged children, and is a clinical supervisor.

Registered Art Psychotherapist UK Health Care Professions Council (HCPC), Member of the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) and Certified Trauma Therapist (Intensive Trauma Therapy (ITT) WV USA).

Marion has been a regular visiting lecturer at Tobias School of Art and Therapy and Bath City College UK and seminar leader at the annual International Anthroposophical Art Therapy conference at the Goetheanum, Switzerland. She has taught in Honduras, Spain, Georgia, South Africa, Taiwan and the Philippines. She has presented papers for Confer Psychotherapy events UK see link below. Marion has several published articles on Burnout and is a chapter co-author in the book Art Therapy with Neurological Conditions. (S. Weston and M. Liebmann Jessica Kingsley 2015)