About Mandy
Mandy Parnell is a counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, phobias and relationship worries. She supports clients dealing with depression, low self-esteem, trauma, eating and sleeping problems, anger and career pressures. Mandy also works with people facing issues related to identity, prejudice, sexual assault and other complex life challenges.
She qualified with a Bachelor of Science honours degree in integrative counselling and psychotherapy from the University of Roehampton and has practiced for 16 years.
Background and approach
Mandy is a BACP member, and she follows the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy’s ethical framework. She draws on several counselling approaches to suit each person’s needs. Mandy’s style is warm and person-focused.
She aims to build a trusting relationship first. Sessions are conversational and practical, with space to understand current difficulties and the impact of past experiences. She commonly uses cognitive behavioural ideas to look at how thoughts influence feelings and actions.
Narrative and attachment-based perspectives help people reframe their stories and examine important relationships. Existential and client-centred elements create a space to reflect on values and life choices. Mandy believes change is possible for most people.
She works collaboratively to set clear goals and to find small, manageable steps forward. Many clients find this approach helpful when coping with life changes, phobias, obsessive thoughts or long-standing worries.
How Mandy’s approaches translate to online therapy
The client-centred approach places the person at the heart of sessions, encouraging open listening and empathy to help people feel heard and understood. This style suits those who need space to reflect on feelings and life choices.Cognitive behavioural therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. It can be useful for anxiety, phobias and sleep or eating difficulties where clear, step-by-step work helps reduce symptoms.
Attachment-based ideas look at how early and important relationships influence current responses and can help when relationship patterns or reactions cause distress.
Mandy treats finding the right approach as a joint process. She will work with each person to decide which methods suit their goals and preferences, and adapt techniques as progress is made. The work is collaborative and revisited as needed.
Online formats give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing body language matters. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and helpful when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, written reflection or people who find typing easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, travel and family commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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