About Abigail
Abigail Cruse is a counsellor who centres her practice on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works in a straightforward, compassionate way and aims to make the first step feel achievable for anyone feeling overwhelmed. She uses a mix of approaches that draw on meaning, body awareness and mindfulness.
Sessions are a place to speak openly about loss, trauma, relationships, addictive patterns and the everyday pressures that build up over time.
Background and approach
Abigail offers space to name difficult feelings and try new ways of responding to them. People often come with grief, work strain, low mood or concerns about intimacy and communication. Abigail also supports those facing parenting challenges, eating or sleeping difficulties, and the emotional costs of caregiving or compassion fatigue.
She pays attention to how past attachments and family patterns shape present life. Her work includes trauma-focused and somatic elements when helpful, alongside Jungian ideas about meaning and mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity. Discussions are practical and paced to suit the person’s needs, with gentle invitations to notice thoughts and bodily signs.
Abigail is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She has four years of professional experience working with people across a range of common life struggles. Sessions can be arranged online by following the site’s matching and booking process.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Existential therapy looks at meaning and choice in life and helps people face difficult questions about purpose, responsibility and change. It can be useful for people struggling with emptiness, life transitions or questions about direction.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple exercises to notice thoughts and sensations without getting swept away by them. This approach can reduce reactivity to stress and help with anxiety, sleep problems and ongoing low mood.
Somatic and trauma-focused elements attend to bodily responses to distress and support people in recognising how trauma shows up in the body. These approaches can help when emotional material feels stuck or when symptoms show as physical tension or dissociation.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Abigail will collaborate with each person to identify which methods suit their goals, needs and preferences, and adapt the plan over time as things change.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or if someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text-based messaging can fit into a busy day and provide shorter check-ins or ongoing written reflection. Registered or accredited professionals can use these formats to make therapy more accessible while maintaining therapeutic focus and continuity.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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