Andrea Reid, BACP

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s priorities. The counsellor offers empathy and reflection to help people feel heard and to find their own solutions; this can be useful for low self-esteem, parenting worries and coping with life changes.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses practical exercises and behavioural experiments to reduce symptoms like anxiety or panic attacks and to improve mood after events such as childbirth or illness.

Psychodynamic Therapy pays attention to recurring patterns in relationships and feelings. Talking about past experiences can reveal habits that affect current choices, which helps when dealing with emptiness, dissociation or midlife concerns.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work itself. The therapist will talk through options and try a way of working that matches a person’s goals and preferences. Sessions can be adjusted over time if a different focus would be more helpful.

Online therapy with Andrea is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people write in between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare and travel.