About Angela
Angela Neary is a BACP counsellor with 20 years' experience supporting people through anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship troubles and addictions. She works in a warm, person-centred way and focuses on helping people find practical steps forward. Her approach is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at everyday problems as well as deeper emotional wounds.
Angela trained as a person-centred counsellor in 2005 and has since worked alongside social care and social work teams.
Background and approach
That background means she is familiar with community services and with people facing a wide range of life challenges. She has helped adults with issues from grief and parenting strain to chronic illness and body image concerns. Sessions are conversational and interactive.
Angela listens closely and encourages people to notice what helps them feel better. She uses elements of cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness alongside person-centred work to tailor practical tools to each person’s situation. Her style is respectful and down-to-earth.
She avoids labels and aims to treat people as individuals rather than a diagnosis. The focus is on small, achievable changes that fit into daily life. Angela also draws on psychodynamic and solution-focused ideas when useful, helping people understand patterns from the past and set clear short-term goals.
She welcomes people who want support with coping, building self-esteem, navigating relationships, or managing the ongoing effects of trauma. People who choose to work with her can expect a collaborative process that balances gentle exploration with concrete strategies for change.
Approaches that can be used online
Angela often combines client-centred work with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and mindfulness. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening without judgement and helping people find their own solutions, which can help with low self-esteem, relationship worries and grief. CBT looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and provides practical exercises to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms. Mindfulness teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce stress and improve day-to-day coping.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will discuss goals and preferences early on and try methods that suit each person. Together they review what helps and adjust the plan over time so sessions match changing needs and aims.
Online formats offer flexibility and different ways to engage. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing their thoughts or want ongoing, brief support between conversations. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and travel, while keeping continuity of care across locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- 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
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- 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
- 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
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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