About Anita
Anita Redfern is a counsellor with 15 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She holds a BACP accreditation and a masters degree in Counselling Psychology. Anita focuses on practical support for everyday problems and helps people who are overwhelmed by stress or anxiety take manageable steps forward.
She offers straightforward help for relationship strain, family conflict, low self-esteem and the shifts that come with life changes. Sessions are conversational and aimed at making difficult feelings easier to understand.
Background and approach
Anita encourages people to speak openly and to notice small changes that make a difference. Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth. She listens first, then works with each person to set short-term goals and simple strategies they can try between sessions.
This can include ways to cope with worry, build confidence, or repair communication patterns. Anita also supports people facing loneliness, caregiver stress, issues around ageing, and the emotional aftermath of separation or infidelity. She addresses both practical problems and the painful feelings that follow from them.
People who prefer a calm, respectful conversation about realistic steps tend to find her style useful. Anita recognises the courage it takes to start therapy and aims to make the process clear and manageable from the first meeting.
How different approaches work online
Evidence-based techniques often used to help with anxiety include cognitive-style work and behavioural methods. Cognitive-style work involves noticing and gently challenging unhelpful thoughts so worries feel less overwhelming; it suits people who want practical ways to change how they think. Behavioural methods focus on gradual changes in action - for example facing avoided situations in small steps - and help reduce avoidance and build confidence.Therapy is a collaborative process and the right approach is found together. The therapist will discuss what feels most useful, try different strategies, and adjust plans based on what the client reports and prefers. Decisions are made jointly so the approach matches personal goals and day-to-day routines.
Online sessions let people choose formats that fit their life. Video calls allow a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging is useful for ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping a steady course of support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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