About Aaron
Aaron Thorpe is a counsellor who draws on relational work to help people facing anxiety and other life challenges. He is a BACP member and brings four years of focused therapeutic practice in addition to a long background in education and leadership. Aaron aims to make people feel heard, respected and understood from the first session.
He creates calm, non-judgemental spaces where people can talk through painful feelings and confusing patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around each person's pace, values and goals. Aaron uses clear, everyday language and metaphors to make complex emotions easier to understand. His approach blends listening with thoughtful questions to surface underlying emotional patterns.
He helps people spot repeated behaviours and consider new ways of responding. This can be useful for relationship strain, low self-esteem, grief, addiction-related concerns, and the stress of life change. Aaron uses methods drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based work alongside client-centred conversation and emotionally-focused ideas.
He may suggest reading, exercises or reflective practices between sessions to support progress. Practical aims include clearer boundaries, steadier mood, better communication and greater self-understanding. Aaron supports people working through career shifts, intimacy issues, trauma responses, ADHD-related challenges, and compassion fatigue with a steady, curious style.
How Aaron uses different therapy models online
Aaron commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in his online work. ACT helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values, which can reduce the hold of anxiety and avoidance. CBT focuses on identifying thought and behaviour patterns and practising small changes that ease stress and mood problems.He also uses Attachment-Based ideas to understand how early relationships shape current patterns. That work can help people improve connection, boundaries and emotion regulation within relationships. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process - Aaron will work collaboratively to choose methods that match someone’s goals, personality and practical needs rather than applying a single technique.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video helps with face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat or messaging can support brief reflections, ongoing coaching-style contact, or people who prefer writing their thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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