About Abby
Abby Rounding is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety and low self-esteem. She supports people struggling with relationships, depression and life changes. Abby writes plainly and aims to create a calm, honest space where people can talk about what feels hard.
Abby draws on several ways of working and adapts her approach to each person. She often uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which offers practical steps when someone is stuck in repeating unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
She also places value on the therapeutic relationship and on understanding early experiences that shape how people relate now. Sessions may include talking about childhood and attachment, noticing how thoughts and feelings affect behaviour, and trying small experiments or worksheets to build different habits. Some sessions focus on exploring deeper meaning, while others focus on straightforward practical changes.
Abby aims to balance both depending on what a person needs that week. She has three years' experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She works with mild to moderate anxiety and depression and pays attention to issues such as abandonment, body image, codependency and communication problems.
First sessions are normally an introduction where details, assessments, goals and expectations are discussed. Sessions are shaped by the client and led by their priorities, with the counsellor offering guidance, reflective listening and practical tools to try between meetings.
How Abby’s approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. In practice this means noticing how you connect, how you respond when you feel threatened, and using that awareness to try different responses in relationships. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It offers practical exercises and short worksheets to break unhelpful cycles and build new habits. Client-Centred Therapy emphasises a respectful, non-judgemental relationship where the counsellor follows your lead and helps you find your own answers.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Abby treats this as a collaborative process and will help you choose methods that fit your goals, preferences and current needs. Some weeks may use more practical CBT tasks, while other weeks look at attachment history or simply provide a listening space.
Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, family life and other commitments while keeping the focus on consistent, helpful progress with a registered professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Phobias
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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