About Annette
Annette Buswell is a counsellor who focuses on helping adults cope with anxiety, stress, grief and life changes. She draws on seven years of practice to support people through depression, relationship and family difficulties, addiction issues and trauma. Annette aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk openly and move at their own pace.
Her approach is person-centred, so she begins by listening closely and building rapport.
Background and approach
From there she uses techniques from a range of approaches to suit each person's needs, including hypnotherapy and mindfulness-based relaxation when helpful. Sessions can be short-term or longer term depending on the issue and goals. Annette trained in hypnotherapy and mindfulness and works within the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy ethical framework.
She brings an integrative outlook and offers tools for managing panic, low self-esteem, anger and phobias alongside longer-standing patterns such as attachment or avoidant traits. Clients who want practical steps will find solution-focused ideas alongside deeper psychodynamic work to look at past patterns. Annette also supports people facing chronic illness, caregiver stress, bereavement and end-of-life concerns.
She emphasises compassion and self-care as central parts of recovery. Sessions are available in English and take place online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. The process begins with a short matching questionnaire so people can be paired to the right counsellor and schedule sessions that fit their life.
How Annette blends approaches for online counselling
Annette uses a person-centred way of working that puts listening and empathy first. This approach helps people feel heard and choose the pace of their work, which is useful for anxiety, grief and relationship worries.She also uses mindfulness therapy to teach simple relaxation and breathing techniques. Mindfulness can help reduce stress and calm panic symptoms by returning attention to the present moment. Hypnotherapy is available as another option; it uses guided mental focus to address habits, low self-esteem and some trauma-related problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Annette discusses options with each person and together they pick techniques that match needs, goals and comfort levels. That collaborative decision helps the work feel relevant and manageable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video works well when face-to-face rapport matters, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or medical appointments while keeping continuity of care with the same counsellor.
Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does she help with?
What is her typical therapeutic style?
How much clinical experience does she have?
What credentials and where is she based?
Which languages are sessions offered in?
How are sessions delivered online?
How do fees and payment work?
What should I do to begin?
What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.