About Robert
Robert Winstanley is a BACP counsellor with nine years' experience supporting people through anxiety, stress, loss and life changes. He draws on person-centred ways of working and practical helping models to offer straightforward, goal-focused support. Robert aims to create an atmosphere of respect, honesty and choice so people can speak openly about what matters to them.
He has worked in the NHS and employee assistance programmes across England and Ireland since 2016.
Background and approach
That background means he is used to practical pressures like work-related stress and balancing home and job demands. He also has experience with a wide range of concerns including depression, addictions, relationship strain and phobias. Robert blends a Person-Centred approach with the Skilled Helper model to match sessions to each person’s needs.
Sessions cover feelings and emotions, and also move toward concrete steps a person can try between meetings. This mix aims to address both emotional support and practical problem solving. He has provided Critical Incident Stress Management debriefs and travels to workplaces across the UK to support people after traumatic events.
That work informs his approach to trauma-focused conversations and coping strategies. People who come to Robert can expect calm, direct conversation and help to set small, achievable goals. He works in English and supports international clients via online formats when appropriate.
How these approaches work online and why they help
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience. The therapist offers empathy and acceptance while the person leads the pace of conversation, which helps with issues like anxiety, self-esteem and relationship concerns.Solution-Focused Therapy looks at practical steps and small changes. Sessions tend to identify clear goals and next actions, which suits people who want focused, short-term work on problems such as stress, work pressures or coping with life changes.
The therapist will work with the client to choose the best approach. Finding the right method is part of the process and it will be decided together based on needs, goals and personal preference. That collaboration can include trying different ways of working as sessions progress.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging which gives flexibility around work and home life. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone calls need less bandwidth, and short live chat or messaging sessions can fit into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep continuity of support and to try approaches that suit the person's routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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