About Robert
Robert Dawson is a counsellor who uses a client-centred approach and eight years of experience to help people facing anxiety, phobias and life stress. He works in a calm, respectful way and aims to make clients feel heard from the first session. He adapts his style to each person's needs and focuses on building trust together.
Robert has worked in a range of professional settings with adults and young people.
Background and approach
He is especially drawn to supporting people who feel marginalised or different, and his interest in human rights shaped his decision to become a counsellor. He also has lived experience of a stammer, which informs his patience and sensitivity in sessions. Sessions typically centre on the client's goals.
He helps people talk through anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, grief, trauma, addiction and difficulties with relationships or parenting. Additional areas he supports include attachment and abandonment issues, body image, gender dysphoria, autism and ADHD related concerns, and caregiver stress. Robert describes his style as warm and softly spoken.
He aims to offer a non-judgemental space where clients can explore their thoughts and feelings at their own pace. He prefers to tailor techniques to what each person needs rather than applying one fixed method. Ethical practice and respect are important to him.
He works within the standards of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and offers sessions in English for people based in the United Kingdom.
Client-centred care delivered online
Client-Centred Therapy puts the person's experience at the heart of sessions. The counsellor listens carefully, reflects what you say and follows your priorities. This approach suits issues like phobias, anxiety, low self-esteem and relationship concerns because it helps people feel understood before making changes.Robert emphasises collaboration when deciding how to work together. He will talk with you about goals, preferences and the kinds of exercises or conversations that feel most useful. That way the approach can be adjusted over time to better match your needs and progress.
Online sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a fuller conversation and visual cues, while phone calls need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for short check-ins, brief reflections or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to stay consistent with appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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