About Shona
Shona Moncrieff is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, relationship and intimacy concerns, and challenges like addiction and grief. She works with issues such as sleep and eating problems, parenting strain, career-related stress, ADHD and compassion fatigue.
Shona practices in the United Kingdom and uses a direct, supportive manner to help people make small, practical changes. She draws on a mix of psychological approaches to suit each person's needs rather than using a single method.
Background and approach
Sessions are grounded in a trauma-aware attitude, and she focuses on what a person can do now to feel safer and more able in day-to-day life. Conversations are paced to match how comfortable someone feels speaking about difficult memories. Shona holds registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and has three years of professional experience.
That experience includes working with people who have experienced adverse childhood events and ongoing trauma, as well as those struggling with motivation and overwhelm. In the room she treats people as the experts on their own lives and centres work on practical steps alongside emotional understanding.
She aims to help people notice personal strengths they may have forgotten and to build on them. The approach is collaborative and respectful, and clients are invited to shape the focus of therapy. Sessions may cover skills to manage anxious thoughts, ways to improve sleep and routines, and strategies for handling difficult relationships.
Shona also offers support for identity and LGBT-related concerns, and for those coping with major life changes. The overall aim is clearer direction and more manageable daily routines.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and living with ongoing stress by focusing on what matters and small steps towards it. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical tools for changing patterns like worry, avoidance or sleep disruption. It is often used for anxiety, depression and habit change.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try options and adjust the methods to fit the person's needs, moving at a pace the client finds manageable.
Online sessions can be video calls, phone chats, live text conversations or messaging. Video is useful for a fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who express themselves better in writing. These formats offer flexibility for fitting therapy around work, family and day-to-day life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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