About Anthony
Anthony Grainger is a counsellor with BACP registration and 13 years of experience in the United Kingdom. He works with people facing everyday struggles such as stress, anxiety and depression, and supports those dealing with trauma, addiction and relationship difficulties. He speaks English and Spanish and aims to treat people with respect and compassion.
Anthony uses an integrative approach, combining methods to suit each person. Sessions can focus on reducing symptoms or exploring deeper issues to help bring about acceptance and change.
Background and approach
He sees therapy as a joint endeavour and involves clients in setting clear, achievable aims. He offers practical ways to manage mood, worry and difficult memories. Techniques draw on cognitive behavioural ideas for changing unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment principles for living with difficult feelings, and attachment-informed work for relationship patterns.
Conversations are straightforward and oriented towards everyday life goals. Anthony follows the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy ethical framework as a BACP member. He takes monthly supervision and does ongoing professional development to keep his practice current.
Clients can message between sessions when that is helpful. People often start by naming a few priorities and deciding whether to work on recovery or symptom management. Anthony helps with a wide range of concerns including grief, intimacy, parenting and career questions, as well as specific issues such as body image, ADHD and chronic health worries.
He aims to help people manage better and feel more capable in daily life.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that reflect personal values. It can help when anxiety or low mood prevents people from doing what matters to them.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together and uses practical steps to change patterns that cause distress. This approach is useful for tackling unhelpful thinking, phobias and everyday anxiety.
Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early relationships shape current patterns with others and helps people recognise and change repeating cycles. That work often helps with relationship problems and intimacy-related worries.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and decide together which methods suit the client's goals and preferences. Sessions are collaborative and may combine techniques over time to meet changing needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls suit full sessions when face-to-face style contact is preferred. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging can fit into busy days, allow shorter updates between sessions, and make it easier to reflect in writing. Registered or accredited professionals provide these formats so people can choose what fits their life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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