About Edward
Edward Mcguinness is a UK-based counsellor with three years of professional experience. He offers a calm, straightforward approach and focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, low mood and relationship concerns. Edward works in English and is comfortable supporting international clients.
He has worked with employee assistance programmes and similar occupational support services. That background means he is used to brief, goal-focused work as well as longer conversations about underlying patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around what each person needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Edward draws on several practical therapy approaches to help people manage thoughts, emotions and behaviour. He uses tools to build coping skills, improve communication and tackle unhelpful thinking.
He also pays attention to emotional experience and personal values when helping people set goals. People come to him with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, addictions, ADHD and sexual or relationship difficulties. He also supports people dealing with chronic health problems, caregiving stress and life transitions.
Edward describes his manner as respectful, sensitive and compassionate. In sessions he aims to tailor dialogue and the plan to each person’s situation. He encourages practical steps alongside reflection so clients can try things between meetings.
Edward emphasises that reaching out takes courage and that his role is to support and empower the person through change.
Therapy approaches and how they work online
Edward draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centred Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, meaningful steps even when feelings are difficult. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening closely and offering a non-judgemental space so people can find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at patterns of thought and behaviour and uses simple exercises to reduce anxiety or low mood.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. Edward will work with each client to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process where the therapist and client review progress and adjust plans together.
Online sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone conversations, live chat or text messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visible cues, phone calls suit people with limited bandwidth, live chat allows quick check-ins and messaging supports short daily reflections or exercises between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, travel or busy family life and let people try different ways of meeting to see what helps most.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- 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
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- 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
- 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
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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