About Annette
Annette Isibor is a counsellor with more than 21 years of experience supporting people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She helps with low mood, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, and problems with self-esteem and motivation. Her approach aims to make talking about hard things feel straightforward and useful.
Annette adapts her style to each person. She draws on cognitive behavioural ideas and client-centred work to focus on practical steps and on understanding what matters to you.
Background and approach
She also uses attachment-informed ways of looking at relationships and emotions. In sessions she listens without judgement and checks in about what is helpful next. Together, Annette and the person she is counselling set goals and try small changes between sessions.
Conversations are shaped around the client’s priorities and pace. She has worked across different settings in the United Kingdom and brings a calm, respectful manner to clinical work. Her BACP credential is listed as part of her professional background.
Annette is comfortable offering support to people who live outside the UK and works in English. People often come to her for issues such as grief, addictions, intimacy concerns, eating and sleeping problems, parenting stress, anger, and bipolar symptoms. She also offers help for attachment difficulties, body image, codependency and dissociation.
Annette aims to help people regain steadiness and clearer next steps. Starting therapy can feel difficult and she recognises that first step takes courage. She tailors conversations and plans to each person so the work feels relevant and manageable.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Annette uses cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to help people spot and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns, which can be useful for anxiety, mood problems and sleep difficulties. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shape current ways of relating and feeling, which can help with intimacy issues, trust and communication problems. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening, empathy and supporting the person's own choices, helping people feel heard and clearer about their next steps.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Annette collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and preferences. She checks in on what is working and adjusts the approach as the therapeutic goals change.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls are good when visual connection helps the conversation. Phone sessions suit people who need lower bandwidth or a quieter check-in. Live chat and messaging can fit brief updates, reflection between sessions or people who prefer typing. These options give flexibility so people can fit therapy around work, family and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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