About Patricia
Patricia Foster is a counsellor with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and 20 years of experience. She combines a person-centred attitude with practical therapy methods to help people facing anxiety, depression, addiction and low self-esteem. Patricia makes space for straightforward conversation and steady support.
Her work often focuses on stress, relationship strain and parenting pressures. She also supports people dealing with grief, trauma or issues around intimacy.
Background and approach
Phobias are listed among her focus areas, and she helps people manage those fears alongside other concerns. Patricia mixes client-centred listening with cognitive behavioural ideas and emotion-focused work. She uses approaches that help identify unhelpful thinking patterns, strengthen emotional understanding and build everyday coping skills.
Sessions are shaped around what each person needs rather than a fixed programme. She has a background in addictions and experience with people affected by physical trauma and emotional abuse. That experience informs how she plans sessions and sets realistic goals.
Patricia aims for a warm, non-judgemental space where people can talk through fears, behaviours and decisions. Her style is collaborative and practical. Clients can expect clear conversation, simple strategies to try between sessions and regular review of progress.
Patricia works with people across many life stages and accepts international clients for online work.
Approaches that suit online therapy
Attachment-based work helps people look at how past relationships shape current reactions and closeness. It supports people struggling with trust, abandonment or repeated relationship patterns by exploring feelings and building new ways of relating.Client-centred therapy focuses on being listened to without judgement. The therapist offers empathy and reflection so people can clarify what matters to them and make choices that feel right. This approach suits anyone wanting a steady, accepting space to talk things through.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together. It gives practical techniques to test unhelpful thoughts and change routines that keep problems going, useful for anxiety, phobias and mood difficulties.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will explore your concerns, goals and preferences in early sessions and suggest which methods to try. That decision is made together and adjusted as progress is reviewed.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation without travel, phone sessions use less bandwidth, and live chat or messaging suit short check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options increase flexibility and help therapy continue around work, family or travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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