About Poppy
Poppy Streatfield is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who works online. She holds a BACP accreditation and has seven years' experience helping people with common mental health concerns. She offers one-to-one counselling that can be short or long term, and adapts sessions to each person's needs.
Her practice aims to be warm and accepting. Sessions are client-focused and scheduled weekly. She keeps messaging outside sessions to practical enquiries and responds during set working hours on the platform.
Background and approach
Poppy draws on several approaches rather than using one fixed method. She uses Client-Centred Therapy to follow what matters most to the person. She uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused techniques when these fit the goals.
She has worked in NHS, education and community settings as well as in independent practice. That range of settings means she is used to supporting people with different backgrounds and needs, including those who have autism or ADHD and need adjustments to sessions. Poppy lists stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma and abuse and phobias among the concerns she helps people with.
She also supports issues such as eating difficulties, relationship strain, parenting pressures and self-esteem challenges. To begin someone selects the Start Therapy button and completes a short matching questionnaire. Sessions run via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging and are organised around the therapist's availability.
How Poppy blends approaches for online counselling
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person's own priorities and pace. The counsellor listens closely and helps people find their own answers rather than directing them. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns; it can help with anxiety, panic and phobias. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) teaches skills for managing strong emotions and improving distress tolerance, which is useful for mood instability and self-harm urges.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Poppy will talk through your concerns, aims and preferences and suggest which methods to try. Often she combines elements from different approaches so sessions match your goals and the time available.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins and people who find typing easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family or study commitments and to keep continuity between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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