About Anne
Anne Ryan-Thomas is a counsellor who supports people facing phobias, anxiety, stress and low self-esteem. She helps with mood difficulties such as depression and bipolar, and with practical life challenges like career decisions, parenting strain and coping with major changes. She also works with addiction, trauma and relationship concerns, and offers support for LGBT issues and ADHD-related struggles.
Her style is warm and down-to-earth. She listens first and adapts what she does to each person.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to suit the client. That practical focus helps people try new ways of managing thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Anne trained in counselling after a long nursing career in the NHS.
She brings 12 years of therapeutic experience and two decades of healthcare work to her conversations. This background gives her a practical perspective on health, chronic illness and the mind-body connection. She uses client-centred listening alongside cognitive behavioural techniques and narrative ideas.
These approaches help people spot unhelpful thought patterns, reframe difficult stories about themselves and build small, realistic steps towards change. Online sessions can be done by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. The therapist works in English and meets people across the United Kingdom only.
Sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session when prompted. The therapist will then discuss goals and tailor the approach to what the person needs.
How Anne’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on understanding a person’s experience without judgement. The therapist listens carefully and encourages people to find their own solutions, which can help with low self-esteem, anxiety and relationship worries.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and practise different behaviours, which is useful for phobias, anxiety and stress management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about what feels most useful and try methods that match their goals and preferences. Decisions are made together and adjusted as progress is reviewed.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use a camera. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, step-by-step exercises or people who find writing easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family life and daily routines, and to stay connected between sessions when helpful.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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