About Ann
Ann Foster is a psychotherapeutic counsellor with nine years of practice in the United Kingdom. She works in a relational, client-led way and keeps each person's goals at the centre of sessions. People meet her when they want clear, down-to-earth support to manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, or trauma-related difficulties.
Her way of working focuses on listening first. She uses dialogue to help people notice patterns and make different choices.
Background and approach
Sessions are paced to each person's needs and may include gentle exploration of past experiences that shape current feelings and behaviours. Ann draws on several approaches to tailor care, including Client-Centred Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy. She also uses Narrative Therapy and Internal Family Systems ideas to help people tell a different story about themselves and their struggles.
This mix is used to address a wide range of concerns such as low self-esteem, eating issues, parenting stress, and career uncertainty. Practical problems like chronic pain, caregiver strain, or life changes are all part of her experience. She also supports people facing identity and intimacy questions, LGBT concerns, and issues linked to bereavement or compassion fatigue.
Work may include building coping strategies, improving communication, or working through feelings linked to abandonment and attachment. Sessions are available online by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Ann uses a subscription model for sessions that can be cancelled at any time.
Initial steps are simple: complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first appointment.
How Ann's Approaches Work Online
Client-Centred Therapy is about being heard and respected. The counsellor follows the person's lead, reflects feelings back, and helps people find their own solutions; it suits issues like anxiety, low self-esteem and general life stress.Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on how past painful events affect current emotions and behaviour. Sessions aim to reduce distress from traumatic memories and teach ways to manage triggers and overwhelm.
Finding the right approach is part of the journey. Ann will work with each person to decide which methods fit best for their needs, goals and preferences. That decision is made together and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions use video calls, phone conversations, live chat or text-based messaging to offer practical flexibility. Video is useful for fuller conversations and non-verbal cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family commitments or mobility limits.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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