About Anna
Anna Critsinelis is a counsellor with ten years of hands-on experience supporting people through stress, anxiety and low self-esteem. She works with individuals facing mood swings, bipolar challenges, attention differences and major life changes. Anna uses clear, practical methods and a calm approach to help people feel steadier and more able to cope.
Clients can expect a conversational style that centres their priorities. Anna listens without judgement and helps people set realistic, step-by-step goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what matters now and on small changes that make daily life easier. Her background includes training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Person-Centred approaches and Solution-Focused Therapy, and she is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. That mix informs practical work on thoughts, behaviours and values.
In sessions Anna often combines short-term tools with a longer view of personal values and strengths. She offers exercises to reduce worry, strategies to manage impulsivity, and ways to handle relationship and communication difficulties. The aim is steady progress, not quick fixes.
Anna speaks English and Portuguese and works with people across the United Kingdom and internationally. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles and schedules.
How Anna’s approaches adapt to online therapy
Anna commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. ACT is useful for anxiety, low mood and life transitions because it focuses on what matters most rather than trying to remove every difficult thought.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to identify thinking patterns and test them with practical experiments. CBT gives clear steps for reducing worry, managing impulsivity and changing behaviours that keep problems going.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Anna treats therapy as a collaboration and will discuss which methods suit a person’s goals and preferences. Together they try techniques, review what helps, and adapt the plan as needed.
Online therapy makes these approaches accessible through different formats. Video calls let people work face to face and practise skills in real time. Phone sessions suit those who prefer no video and sometimes use less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins, written exercises and flexible contact between sessions. These options help therapy fit around work, caregiving and busy days while keeping the focus on steady, practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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