About Sunshine
Sunshine Goodfellow is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain and phobias. She works with individuals on issues such as trauma, grief, low self-esteem and addiction. Sunshine offers a calm, respectful presence and encourages clients to speak openly about what worries them.
She draws on 13 years of experience and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, framework. Sessions focus on building practical skills to manage difficult moments and on understanding the patterns that keep problems repeating.
Background and approach
Conversations are paced to suit each person and aim to make small, steady changes. Her background includes study at Anglia Ruskin University and postgraduate work in Art and Play Therapy at the University of Cambridge. That training informs hands-on, creative ways to look at feelings and memories when words alone are not enough.
She has also volunteered as a school governor and youth leader, which shaped her community-focused outlook. Sunshine uses approaches such as attachment-based work, client-centred listening and cognitive behavioural techniques when helpful. She prefers to collaborate with clients to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level.
The aim is to help people feel more connected to themselves and better able to cope with life’s changes. Clients can expect a straightforward, warm style. Sessions emphasise practical steps, regular check-ins and attention to what matters most to the person sitting in the room.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Sunshine commonly uses attachment-based work and client-centred counselling, alongside cognitive behavioural techniques tailored to the issue at hand. Attachment-based work looks at early relationship patterns and how they affect current reactions, which can help with trust, intimacy and relationship worries. Client-centred counselling places the person’s experience at the centre of sessions, offering non-judgemental listening and space to find their own answers. Cognitive behavioural techniques focus on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviours to reduce anxiety and improve daily routines.Finding the right approach is part of the journey. The counsellor discusses goals and preferences with each person and adapts methods as therapy progresses. This collaborative process helps identify which techniques feel most useful and which to try next.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers quick check-ins and text messaging can suit brief updates or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caring responsibilities or travel, while keeping continuity of care across distances.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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 of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- 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)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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