About Teresa
Teresa Readhead is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She has seven years of experience working with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, addiction and family conflict. Teresa aims to make the first step feel manageable and offers steady, practical support along the way.
She tends to keep things straightforward in sessions. Teresa encourages people to talk about what matters most to them and listens without judging.
Background and approach
The work focuses on understanding patterns, building new ways to cope, and testing small changes that can make everyday life easier. Teresa draws on a mix of approaches to match what a person needs. That might include looking at past attachment experiences, using structured thinking tools from cognitive behavioural approaches, or talking through the stories people tell about themselves.
Mindfulness and narrative ideas are also used when they help someone feel more grounded or make sense of a difficult time. Sessions are suited to people struggling with low mood, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, attention and concentration difficulties, sleep problems, anger or major life transitions.
She also supports those facing chronic illness, caring responsibilities, body image issues and work-related stress such as compassion fatigue. Teresa offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, and works with clients in the United Kingdom and internationally. If someone wants to begin, they choose Start Therapy, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then arrange sessions according to availability.
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Attachment-based work helps people look at how early relationships affect current patterns. It often focuses on emotion and connection, which can help with relationship worries, abandonment fears and attachment issues.Client-centred therapy puts the person’s experience at the centre of sessions. The counsellor offers active listening and reflection so someone can explore feelings and find their own solutions, which suits people dealing with grief, low self-esteem or life changes.
Cognitive behavioural techniques help identify unhelpful thoughts and test them with small behavioural changes. This approach is useful for anxiety, stress, sleep problems and mild to moderate depression.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Teresa works collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person’s goals and preferences. The plan can be adjusted as progress is reviewed over time.
Online sessions offer practical convenience. Video calls are close to face-to-face work and help with visual cues, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break. Live chat and text-based messaging are handy for short check-ins, written reflection or when someone prefers not to use a camera. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care from different locations and around busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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