About Andrew
Andrew Merz is a counsellor who uses practical, evidence-informed methods to help people manage stress and anxiety. He works with common concerns such as depression, grief and self-esteem. He approaches each person with respect, sensitivity and compassion to make the first step easier to take.
Andrew has five years of professional experience in the United Kingdom and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. He adapts what happens in sessions to match each person's needs rather than following a one-size-fits-all plan.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around what a person hopes to change and how they prefer to work. In conversation he focuses on clear, practical strategies alongside deeper emotional work. That can mean learning tools to manage anxiety, looking at patterns that feed low mood, or building skills to handle relationship and intimacy issues.
He also supports people dealing with addictions, ADHD-related struggles and career stress. Andrew is comfortable helping with complex life circumstances such as adoption and foster care questions, caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image concerns and sexuality matters including LGBT issues and kink. He aims to create a steady, non-judgemental space where difficult topics can be talked through at a manageable pace.
Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged through video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that suits the client.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online support
Andrew often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then focus on steps that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress and issues where avoiding feelings has become a problem.He also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, a hands-on approach that identifies unhelpful thinking and teaches simple skills to change behaviours and mood. CBT is commonly used for depression, panic and persistent worry.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Andrew treats therapy as a shared process and will discuss which methods suit your goals and preferences. Together you can try an approach and adjust it if needed so sessions stay relevant to the issues you want to address.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging helps people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to schedule around work, caregiving or travel and to keep continuity between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- 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 conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- 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
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult 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
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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