About Annie
Annie Ryan is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and other distressing issues. She brings five years of personal practise experience to one-to-one work and aims to create a calm, respectful space for people to talk about what is worrying them.
She listens closely to each person's story and works at a pace that suits them. Conversations are used to identify practical steps and priorities.
Background and approach
Annie checks in regularly so the plan can be adjusted as things change. Her practice covers a wide range of concerns including stress, relationship strain, grief, addictions and depression. She also supports people facing parenting pressures, workplace challenges, identity questions, trauma and issues around self‑esteem and intimacy.
Annie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people build coping skills and feel more in control of day-to-day life. She aims to break complex problems into manageable tasks and to teach tools that can be used between sessions. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat and text messaging to suit different needs and routines.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and then sessions are scheduled according to the usual availability of the service.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Many clients benefit from structured, evidence-based techniques that focus on thoughts, feelings and behaviour. Cognitive approaches look at patterns of thinking that keep anxiety and low mood active and introduce small experiments to test unhelpful beliefs and build new habits. Behavioural techniques focus on breaking avoidance, building routine and practising coping strategies for stressful situations.Other helpful methods include skills-based work that teaches relaxation, grounding and emotion regulation exercises. These are practical, short exercises people can use between sessions to manage panic, overwhelm or strong emotions. These approaches are useful for anxiety, stress, trauma-related symptoms and low mood.
Finding the right way forward is a joint effort. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences and daily life. Plans are reviewed regularly so techniques can be adjusted or new strategies introduced as progress is made.
Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat or text messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people write when it suits them. Together these options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, childcare and travel.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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