About Andrew
Andrew Higginbottom is a counsellor who uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people facing stress, anxiety and relationship strains. He works with adults on issues such as low self-esteem, motivation, grief and addiction concerns. He holds NCPS credentials and practises in the United Kingdom.
In sessions Andrew focuses on clear goals and simple tools you can use between meetings. He draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to spot and change unhelpful thinking.
Background and approach
He also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice what matters to them and take small steps towards it. Andrew pays attention to how early bonds shape current relationships, using attachment-based thinking to understand patterns that cause conflict or avoidance. He also uses skills from dialectical behaviour therapy for emotional regulation and crisis coping when feelings feel overwhelming.
He has three years of professional experience working with issues from parenting stress and caregiver burden to intimacy and body-image concerns. He aims to make sessions feel direct and practical, with space to reflect on past experiences and plan realistic changes. Andrew invites people to try short, manageable steps rather than big overhauls.
He explains methods clearly and coaches clients to practise new habits between sessions. If you want straightforward support for day-to-day struggles, he offers a collaborative, goal-focused way forward.
Using practical approaches online to manage feelings and relationships
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that reflect their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviours to reduce distress and improve sleep, mood and motivation. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people understand and change repeating dynamics that cause conflict or avoidance.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals and preferences, and together they will try methods that match those aims. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made along the way to find what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging supports frequent, brief contact. These options make it easier to have consistent sessions around work, caregiving and travel commitments while using the approaches described above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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