About Avril
Avril Harding is a counsellor with six years of professional experience working in the United Kingdom. She supports people who are feeling stressed or anxious and those dealing with depression, relationship worries, or the impact of past trauma. Avril aims to make taking the first step easier by offering a calm, non-judgemental space to talk.
She listens carefully to what matters most to each person and helps them name what is getting in the way of day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on practical steps people can try between sessions, as well as on understanding patterns that keep causing pain. Avril uses a mix of recognised approaches to suit different concerns and personalities. Her work commonly addresses anxiety, addictions, grief and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
She also helps people coping with life changes, career stress and compassion fatigue. Additional interests include attachment difficulties, eating and sleeping problems, and support around neurodiversity challenges such as autism and Asperger syndrome. Avril practises using methods drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused and Attachment-Based approaches, and client-centred therapy.
These inform a flexible style that places the person’s goals at the centre of sessions. Sessions are offered in English and are available to people inside and outside the UK. Avril works with individuals to set realistic aims and practical steps, and to review progress as therapy continues.
How Avril's approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being ruled by them, and then take small values-based steps towards a more meaningful life. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and coping with change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns and testing new ways of responding; it often helps with anxiety, low mood and sleep difficulties. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on emotional experience and connection, useful when intimacy, attachment or relationship patterns are causing distress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Avril discusses what matters to each person and together they decide which methods to try first. She adapts techniques to a person’s goals and checks in regularly to see what is helpful and what should change.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make sessions fit around life. Video is good when a longer conversation is needed, phone calls can be a simpler way to check in without bandwidth demands, and messaging suits shorter reflections or quick updates between sessions. These options give flexibility for people juggling work, family or travel while keeping continuity of care with a registered or accredited professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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