About Brett
Brett Garcia is a counsellor with twenty years of experience. He is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Brett offers a calm, non-judgemental space for people to talk through stress, anxiety, relationship problems and life transitions.
Brett draws on attachment-based, client-centred, cognitive behavioural and existential ideas to shape sessions. He looks at what is happening now while also noticing patterns that go back to earlier experiences.
Background and approach
This helps people understand why they react the way they do and learn different ways of coping. His background includes long-term roles in clinical leadership within the UK National Health Service, and work across social care, education, health and independent practice. That experience informs his work with people dealing with trauma, chronic stress, work pressures and identity concerns.
Brett also has experience with neurodiversity, including autism and ADHD, and adapts his approach to different communication styles. Sessions are offered in English and he works with people internationally. Brett supports concerns such as depression, addictions, grief, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting strains, anger, self-esteem, and career uncertainty.
He also helps with complex themes like attachment difficulties, abandonment, caregiver stress and chronic illness. People can expect a collaborative, reflective process focused on practical change and clearer self-understanding. Brett combines thoughtful listening with gentle challenge to help people find steadier ways of coping and relating.
How Brett’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on how past and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. Online sessions can be used to notice patterns in relationships and practise new ways of connecting or setting boundaries. Client-centred therapy places the person's experience at the centre, with the counsellor offering empathetic listening and reflection; this helps when someone needs steady support to explore identity, grief or confidence. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts, feelings and behaviours and uses practical exercises; it is useful for managing anxiety, phobias and unhelpful routines.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Brett will talk with each person about goals, preferences and how they like to communicate. Together they decide whether to focus on understanding past patterns, practical skills, or a mix of both, and that plan can change as therapy progresses.
Online formats offer practical benefits for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief updates, reflective writing exercises or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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