About Ann
Ann Foster is a psychotherapeutic counsellor practising in the United Kingdom. She holds NCPS credentials and brings nine years of professional experience to her work. Her style is warm and respectful, and she puts each person’s goals at the centre of sessions.
She uses a relational approach that focuses on how connections and patterns affect everyday life. Sessions are led by the client, and she works together with people to build a plan that fits their situation.
Background and approach
That plan is practical and tailored, aiming to make small, workable changes. Ann has supported people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and grief. She also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, issues around identity and LGBT matters, parenting strain, and work or career pressures.
Other areas she addresses include eating and body image concerns, chronic illness and caregiving stress, and adjustment after major life changes. Her methods draw on client-centred ideas, narrative work and trauma-focused methods, and she pays attention to internal parts and relationship dynamics when helpful. In sessions she listens, reflects, and helps people notice patterns that keep causing distress.
Conversations are practical and paced to the person’s comfort. Ann offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
She works in English and does not take international clients.
How relational and narrative approaches work online
Ann uses client-centred and narrative approaches to help people understand their feelings and the stories they tell about themselves. Client-centred work focuses on listening, empathy and helping the person lead each session, which suits people who want a supportive, non-judgemental space. Narrative work helps people separate themselves from painful problems by examining the stories that maintain them and developing new, more helpful narratives.She also draws on trauma-focused ideas and internal parts work when needed to address distress rooted in past events or conflicting internal states. Those methods aim to reduce the ways traumatic memories or inner parts keep causing upset and to strengthen coping strategies. Choosing the right mix of approaches is collaborative - the therapist and client decide together what feels most useful for the person’s goals and preferences.
Online formats used include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video suits in-depth conversations and visual connection. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited and for quick check-ins. Live chat and messaging work well for shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when writing helps someone reflect. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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