About Anna
Anna Doherty is a BACP counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression and life changes. She talks simply and directly, offering a calm presence for people coping with sleep problems, grief, addictions, eating concerns and low self-esteem. Anna works with people struggling with ADHD, attachment and abandonment issues, and the effects of trauma and abuse.
Her approach is client-centred, so sessions begin with the person’s immediate needs. Conversations are informal and focused, and Anna adapts the pace to what feels manageable.
Background and approach
She uses mindfulness practices and somatic techniques to help with body-based symptoms like tension or disturbed sleep. Anna also draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to help people notice patterns of thinking that increase worry or low mood. Psychodynamic thinking is used when exploring past experiences that continue to affect present relationships and emotions.
She combines talking therapy with practical exercises when these feel useful. She has six years of documented experience working in therapeutic roles in the United Kingdom and holds BACP accreditation. Sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging so people can choose what fits their routine.
Anna encourages small steps and clear goals. She supports people coping with chronic illness, body image concerns, codependency and career-related stress. Her style is steady, collaborative and aimed at helping people feel more settled in everyday life.
How Anna uses therapy approaches online
Anna combines client-centred work with mindfulness and cognitive behavioural ideas in online sessions. Client-centred therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities, letting conversations follow what feels most important. It helps people feel heard and guides decisions about practical next steps.Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) involves noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-world experiments. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep problems because it gives clear strategies to change patterns of thinking and behaviour.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Anna works collaboratively to decide which methods to use, based on each person’s goals, comfort and day-to-day needs. She will check in and adjust techniques as therapy progresses so sessions remain relevant and manageable.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone appointments, live chat or text messaging. Video calls suit longer conversations and face-to-face connection, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a short break at work. Live chat and text messaging can work well for brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions or for people who prefer writing. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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