About Fiona
Fiona Scotland is a counsellor with ten years' experience working across the United Kingdom. She holds BACP registration with a background in person-centred practice and uses an integrative, neuro-affirming perspective to shape sessions. Fiona meets adults at different life stages and aims to help them make practical changes.
Her work often focuses on everyday pressures such as stress, anxiety and depression. She also supports people coping with relationship and family tensions, bereavement, and the strain of life transitions.
Background and approach
Issues around work, career decisions, and academic stress are part of her caseload too. Fiona draws on approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy alongside mindfulness and solution-focused techniques. Sessions are grounded in listening and helping clients notice patterns and try small experiments between meetings.
Conversations are paced to the person and emphasise real steps that can be taken outside the session. People who value a collaborative, down-to-earth style tend to feel comfortable with her. She pays attention to neurodivergent experiences and aims to adapt how she works so it makes sense for each person.
Practical problem-solving sits alongside emotional processing depending on what the client needs. Fiona offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. She works in English and can see international clients.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then arrange sessions according to the scheduling options offered.
How Fiona brings therapeutic approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and decide what matters to them. In practice this looks like identifying values, trying small behavioural steps and learning skills to stay engaged with chosen goals despite setbacks.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. Sessions involve noticing unhelpful thinking patterns, testing them in real life and building alternative responses to reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning.
Fiona treats finding the right approach as a shared task. She will explore goals, preferences and practical needs with each person and then choose or blend techniques together. This collaborative process is used to shape what happens in sessions and to set realistic short-term tasks.
Online work is offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to make counselling more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone calls can fit a break at work or suit lower bandwidth. Chat and messaging can be helpful for shorter check-ins, written reflection or people who prefer not to use video. These options make it easier to keep continuity when life is busy or travel is difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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