About Melissa
Melissa Foster is a counsellor and a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She has five years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting pressures, grief and major life changes. She aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and respectful of each person's pace.
Her sessions focus on listening first and then working with you to build practical steps forward.
Background and approach
Melissa uses a person-centred way of working, which means conversations are guided by your needs rather than a fixed script. She also draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to help with patterns of thought and behaviour. Clients often come for help with attachment and abandonment worries, communication or commitment problems, and the emotional impact of separation or blended family life.
She also supports people dealing with career shifts, fertility and fatherhood issues, and the distress that follows bereavement or illness. Melissa completed Level 5 training in Psychotherapeutic Counselling, which enables her to work at a deeper level with patterns and past experiences. She combines that training with solution-focused tools to set small, achievable goals during sessions.
Her aim is to create a calm, non-judgemental space where people can make sense of feelings, try out new ways of coping, and gradually build confidence. Sessions are tailored to what each person needs, and progress is reviewed together as therapy continues.
How her approaches work online and in sessions
Client-centred work places your experience at the heart of the sessions. The therapist listens closely and follows what matters most to you, helping you feel heard and shaping the pace of change around your needs.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on recognising unhelpful thought patterns and trying out small behavioural experiments. It is useful for anxiety, stress and problems that feel stuck in repeating loops.
Psychodynamic ideas look at how past relationships and patterns influence current feelings and choices. This approach can help when longstanding patterns such as attachment or abandonment worries affect present relationships.
Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through options with you, try different techniques, and adjust the plan as you notice what helps. Finding the right fit is part of the work together rather than a one-time choice.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you have a face-to-face conversation from anywhere with a good internet connection. Phone sessions make it easy to fit a session into a busy day or when a camera isn't wanted. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, reflective journalling between sessions, or lower-bandwidth communication. These options make it easier to keep continuity and to use the format that best fits a person's routine and needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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