About Fiona
Fiona Austin is a counsellor who focuses on helping people who struggle with stress, anxiety and overwhelm. She explains things simply and guides people toward practical change. Her aim is to clear away what gets in the way so daily life feels easier and more manageable.
Fiona often links sleep problems, low motivation and relationship strain to underlying stress. In sessions she helps clients find the roots of these issues and then work on steps to move forward.
Background and approach
She pays attention to strengths and to positive memories as tools for change, not just the problems themselves. Her work draws on approaches that encourage self-awareness, new thinking patterns and calmer states of mind. Sessions can include talking, reflective exercises and techniques to shift unhelpful habits.
The focus is on small, usable changes that make a real difference in day-to-day life. Fiona also supports people who are dealing with career shifts, parenting pressures, fertility and fatherhood worries, midlife questions and money concerns. She addresses attachment and communication problems, control issues, separation and the feelings of emptiness or isolation that sometimes follow life changes.
With 20 years of experience and membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP - she works with adults across the United Kingdom. Fiona offers both online and in-person meetings so people can choose what fits their routine and needs.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Fiona uses client-centred work to create a supportive space where the client's own goals guide each session. This approach focuses on listening, empathy and helping people find their own solutions, which can be done well in video or phone sessions.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. CBT offers clear steps and exercises that adapt well to online formats, helping with anxiety, sleep problems and motivation challenges.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Fiona discusses aims and preferences with each person and jointly decides which methods to try. That way the plan fits the client's needs and can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online work is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat suits brief check-ins and text messaging works for ongoing support between meetings. These options give flexibility to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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