About Anna
Anna Richardson is a counsellor who brings five years of clinical experience to her work. She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Anna speaks English and Russian and sees people online across the United Kingdom.
Her practice is rooted in psychodynamic ideas and attachment-based thinking. Sessions look at how past experiences and relationship patterns shape current feelings and reactions. She invites clients to talk through anxieties, low mood, stress, and problems with self-esteem in a calm, non-judgemental way.
Background and approach
Anna also helps people facing life changes and relationship difficulties. Other concerns she supports include grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, parenting stress, and issues connected to identity such as gender dysphoria and LGBT-related matters. She listens for patterns like abandonment fears, control struggles, or communication problems and brings these into the conversation.
Her background includes charity work with local mental health organisations and experience working with people with PTSD in personal sector care homes. That experience informs how she notices trauma reactions and emotional triggers in sessions. She frames therapy as a steady process rather than a quick fix.
In practical terms Anna offers appointments by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. New clients start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions to suit their timetable. Costs vary with location and the subscription plan used.
How attachment and psychodynamic work translate online
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and emotional bonds. It helps people recognise how early and current attachments shape trust, closeness and responses to stress. This approach can be useful when anxiety, abandonment fears or communication problems affect daily life.Psychodynamic therapy pays attention to recurring feelings, hidden expectations and earlier life experiences that influence behaviour now. It supports people who want to understand where strong emotions come from and how past events affect current relationships and self-image.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and adapt methods to suit the issue at hand. That decision is collaborative and may change as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues during deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Live chat or messaging works well for frequent short reflections or when writing helps people pace their thoughts. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, travel and family commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Russian
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