About Astrid
Astrid Tiefholz is an ACA counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, eating concerns, parenting strains, depression, and big life changes. She aims to make heavy moments easier to manage and supports clients in finding practical next steps. Astrid listens without judgement and treats each person as the expert in their own life.
Sessions focus on what matters to the client now, with clear tools and short-term strategies to reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
She blends evidence-informed methods with a gentle, person-centred style. Her background includes work across maternity and perinatal settings and community mental health. This experience informs how she supports transitions such as pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, and other life-stage shifts.
Astrid also draws on experience with eating and body image issues and with neurodiversity-related concerns. Astrid uses approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioural techniques, dialectical behaviour skills, mindfulness, and client-centred conversation. These methods are applied in straightforward ways - for example, learning small behaviour changes, practising skills for intense moments, and clarifying personal values and goals.
Clients can expect a collaborative process with clear options and homework when it helps. Astrid works in English and offers a practical mix of talk, skills practice, and goal-setting. Her work aims to reduce distress and increase usable coping strategies.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Astrid uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take small steps toward a meaningful life. ACT focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and choosing actions that align with what matters most.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy which looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact. CBT helps break patterns by testing unhelpful thoughts and practising different behaviours to reduce anxiety and low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Astrid will discuss options and tailor methods to a person's goals and preferences in a collaborative way. She checks in on what helps and adjusts the approach over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions can fit a short break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging can support quick check-ins and ongoing reflection between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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