About Belly
Belly Harding is a counsellor who uses an integrative approach to help people manage anxiety, stress and relationship concerns. She combines practical and reflective methods to help clients explore what is causing pain and find ways to move forward. Belly works in English and French and is based in the United Kingdom.
Belly trained academically in psychology and is a BACP member. She holds a Master of Science in Psychology and is a doctoral candidate in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy.
Background and approach
She also completed a certificate in Humanistic Therapies and Existential Counselling and a life coach qualification, which shape her blend of approaches. In sessions she mixes cognitive behavioural techniques with psychodynamic and existential ideas. That means she will help identify unhelpful thought patterns and habits, while also looking at deeper life meanings and past experiences that shape current feelings.
Conversations move between practical steps and reflective questions depending on what the client needs. She has seven years of clinical experience working with issues such as trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, addictions and relationship difficulties. She has supported people facing grief, career strain, body image concerns and parenting stress.
She also offers Christian counselling when clients request that option. People can expect an open, empathic and non-judgemental space to talk. Belly aims to help people make sense of their world, manage suffering and build more authentic, fulfilling lives.
Her practical focus means sessions often include tasks or experiments to try between meetings.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape how people relate now. It helps when relationship patterns, attachment issues or abandonment fears affect your daily life and connections. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. It is useful for problems like anxiety, depression, sleep and stress where practical steps and experiments can reduce symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together they will choose whether to emphasise CBT tasks, explore meaning with existential ideas, or look at attachment patterns over time, adjusting the plan as you go.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is useful for more conversational, reflective sessions. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a work break. Live chat or messaging can help people who prefer writing or need brief, flexible contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity when travel or time makes in-person meetings difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- 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
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, French
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