About Annette
Annette Buswell welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, loss or life change. She presents as a calm, compassionate counsellor who aims to create a steady space for honest conversation. Her approach begins with listening and helping each person find practical ways to cope day to day.
Annette has seven years' practice in the United Kingdom and works within the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She uses a range of methods so sessions can be shaped around what the person needs.
Background and approach
That might mean talking things through at the person’s pace, practising relaxation, or exploring patterns from earlier life that still cause difficulty. Sessions can be short term to solve a specific problem, or longer term to look at deeper issues. Annette draws particularly on client-centred work, mindfulness and hypnotherapy alongside psychodynamic and solution-focused ideas.
She explains options and helps people decide what to try first. Common concerns she supports include anxiety, depression, grief, low self-esteem, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and addiction. She also works with issues such as chronic illness, caregiving stress, body image, abandonment and bereavement related to ageing and end of life.
Working with Annette usually involves practical coping strategies, paced conversation and simple relaxation practices. The aim is to develop more self-compassion, clearer choices and small steps that make life feel more manageable. She asks people to set goals together and reviews progress as therapy continues.
How Annette’s approaches translate to online therapy
Annette combines client-centred work with mindfulness and hypnotherapy to support people online. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting connection so people can talk at their own pace; it helps with anxiety, low mood and relationship worries. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple awareness and breathing practices to reduce stress and to manage panic or rumination. Hypnotherapy uses guided relaxation and focused attention to help change unhelpful habits and to support coping with pain or strong emotions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Annette discusses goals and preferences in early sessions and together they decide whether to focus on short-term solutions, mindfulness practices, or deeper psychodynamic themes. The therapist tailors methods as progress is reviewed so care feels collaborative and responsive.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client meet face to face for longer conversations and demonstrations of relaxation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat or text messaging suit brief check-ins, written reflections or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while balancing day-to-day life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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