About Avril
Avril Lote is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with seven years of professional experience. She supports people who are dealing with stress, anxiety and depression. Avril also helps those facing major life changes and relationship difficulties.
She works from a view that the client is the expert in their own story. In sessions she aims to build on a person's existing strengths and to notice patterns that make life harder.
Background and approach
Avril uses clear, straightforward conversation and practical steps to help people feel steadier day to day. Her work includes attention to emotional pain from trauma and abuse, grief and issues around intimacy. She also supports people managing addictions, eating concerns and challenges linked to sexual identity and LGBT matters.
Career worries, self-esteem and ADHD-related struggles are part of her caseload too. Avril draws on client-centred ideas to keep the conversation focused on each person's goals. She also uses cognitive behavioural tools to address unhelpful thoughts and psychodynamic thinking to look at long-standing patterns.
Together these approaches help people understand what they want to change and try new ways of coping. She holds the NCPS credential, which is listed as NCPS. Avril encourages small steps and practical experiments between sessions, and she invites honest feedback so therapy can be shaped around what actually helps.
How Avril blends approaches for online therapy
Client-centred therapy puts the client's goals at the heart of the work. The therapist listens closely and follows what matters most to the person, helping them draw on their own strengths and choices. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going and offers practical tools to try new responses and reduce anxiety. Psychodynamic therapy pays attention to repeated patterns and feelings that can trace back to earlier relationships, helping people make sense of why they react the way they do.Finding the right approach is part of the journey and Avril treats it as a collaborative process. She will discuss different ways of working and agree on what to try first based on your needs, goals and preferences. If something isn't helping, she will adjust the plan together with you.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can be easier for a quick check-in and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family life and busy days while still working on anxiety, stress and other concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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