About Anna
Anna Gardner is a BACP counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief and depression. She listens with care and pays attention to both what is said and what is left unsaid. Her manner is calm and respectful, aimed at making it easier to talk about difficult things.
Anna draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to shape sessions around each person's needs. She focuses on practical tools as well as understanding feelings and patterns.
Background and approach
Conversations are collaborative; the client and counsellor set goals together and decide what feels most helpful. She has five years of experience working with a wide range of concerns, including attachment and abandonment issues, caregiver stress, chronic pain and illness, communication problems, addiction-related issues, and loneliness. Anna also addresses life transitions such as midlife questions, money worries and questions about life purpose.
Sessions are offered in English and are delivered online through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. International clients are not currently accepted and sessions take place with clients in the United Kingdom. To begin, people select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
Costs vary with location and therapist availability and use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
Approaches and online working style
Anna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person's situation. One common approach focuses on understanding and changing unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns; this helps with anxiety, low mood and stress by teaching practical coping strategies. Another approach emphasises exploring attachment and relational patterns to make sense of recurring relationship tensions and feelings of abandonment.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Anna will collaborate with each person to agree which methods to try, check progress and adapt the plan as needs and goals evolve. The process is shared and flexible rather than fixed from the start.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to make sessions easier to fit into busy lives. Video allows face-to-face conversation when that helps, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging can be used for ongoing reflection between appointments. These options aim to make therapy more accessible and practical for people juggling work, caregiving and health issues.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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