About Ana
Ana (Anabel) Olmedo Gonzalez is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with seven years of practice. She offers support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma and life changes. Ana uses a calm, person-centred style and speaks English and Spanish.
Ana combines work in NHS talking therapy services with independent practice and online sessions. Her credential is NCPS, which is listed as National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society.
Background and approach
She values listening and creating a space where people can speak without judgment. Her approach begins with what the person brings to the room. Sessions focus on understanding emotions, practical steps to manage symptoms, and gentle exploration of difficult memories where needed.
Mindfulness and breath awareness are woven in to help with stress and anxious moments. Ana also draws on emotionally-focused and existential ideas to help people make sense of relationships, purpose and life transitions. Motivational interviewing helps when someone is struggling with change or making decisions about next steps.
People often come with issues such as relationship and intimacy questions, self-esteem concerns, caregiving stress, or career-related strain. She also supports those facing bereavement, illness-related challenges, immigration-related worries, or feelings of isolation. Outside work Ana enjoys nature, meditation and yoga.
Her day-to-day interests feed into a gentle, steady style of counselling that aims to help people find clearer direction and calmer moments in their daily life.
Approaches that suit online counselling
Ana uses a person-centred approach that focuses on the person's experience and priorities. This method involves listening closely and helping someone steer sessions at their own pace, which can help with anxiety and low mood by making therapy feel manageable.She also incorporates emotionally-focused techniques that help people understand and shift patterns in close relationships. This work helps with intimacy concerns, trust issues and feelings of isolation by paying attention to emotional responses and interaction patterns.
Finally, Ana brings in mindfulness practices to support regulation of stress and anxious thoughts. Short mindfulness exercises and breath work are often used to build coping skills that can be practised between sessions.
Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process. Ana works collaboratively to choose methods that fit a person's goals, needs and preferences, and she reviews progress as therapy continues.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let sessions feel more like face-to-face meetings, phone sessions can be easier when lower bandwidth or less screen time is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging offer brief check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options help people fit counselling around work, caregiving and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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