Sonia Roberts, BACP

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. The therapist follows the person’s lead, reflecting feelings and helping people feel heard, which can help with low mood and relationship worries.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses practical exercises and experiments to test unhelpful thinking and develop new coping habits, which is useful for anxiety and depression.

Psychodynamic Therapy pays attention to repeated patterns and past influences that shape current feelings. It offers space to notice long-standing themes such as attachment or abandonment and to understand how they affect present choices.

Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals and try methods that suit their needs and preferences. That means trying things, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together as work progresses.

Online therapy here is delivered by registered or accredited professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging. These options make therapy more flexible - video for face-to-face style conversations, phone if bandwidth is limited, chat or messaging for quick check-ins or shorter exchanges. The range of formats helps people fit sessions around work, family and busy days while keeping therapy consistent and practical.