About Annabelle
Annabelle Watton is a counsellor who focuses on anxiety, stress and relationship difficulties. She has eight years of experience and a background in mental health nursing. She aims to make the first steps into therapy straightforward and manageable for people who are unsure where to begin.
She works from the view that each person knows their own story best. Sessions are built around the client's priorities and strengths. The therapist helps people turn small steps into meaningful change rather than promising quick fixes.
Background and approach
Annabelle uses a mix of approaches to match different needs. That can include talking about patterns from the past, noticing how the body holds tension, and focusing on the client’s own goals in sessions. She adapts the pace and focus to what feels most useful for the person in front of her.
Her experience includes supporting people with trauma and abuse, low mood and low self-esteem, and complex concerns such as dissociation or attachment difficulties. She is also familiar with issues connected to neurodiversity, body image and kink-aware work. Therapy with her is collaborative.
Practical tools and gentle reflection are offered alongside space to tell difficult parts of a story. People can expect clear conversation about what will happen in sessions and what to try between meetings.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy is about following what matters to the person in front of the therapist. Online sessions use that same principle, letting the client set the pace and topics so the work stays relevant to daily life.Psychodynamic Therapy looks at patterns formed over time and how past experiences affect current relationships and feelings. In remote sessions this can help identify unhelpful cycles and build clearer choices about how to respond to anxious or difficult moments.
Somatic Therapy brings attention to bodily sensations and how stress shows up physically. Through simple practices and noticing in video or phone sessions, clients can learn ways to ease tension and step out of reactive states.
Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. The therapist will discuss different methods and decide together which feels most helpful for the client's needs, goals and preferences. That kind of collaboration makes switching emphasis straightforward when life changes.
Online formats offer flexibility. Video calls approximate face-to-face conversation and let therapists read non-verbal cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and suit shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging can support regular contact between sessions or be a gentler way to begin. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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