About Ben
Ben Powell is a counsellor with 15 years of professional experience based in the United Kingdom. He works with people dealing with stress and anxiety, depression, grief, and issues around self-esteem and motivation. Ben emphasises that clients are the experts in their own stories and aims to support them as they take steps toward change.
He uses a straightforward, respectful style in sessions. Ben keeps a message box open for questions and sends weekly messages to help clients stay focused on goals.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to match each person's needs. Ben draws on client-centred principles to build a trusting relationship. He also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and patterns.
Mindfulness and narrative ideas are woven in to help people find steadier ground and clearer meaning. Over his career Ben has helped people with a wide range of concerns, including addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, ADHD, and work-related stress.
He works with those exploring sexuality and alternative sex cultures, and with people coping with life changes such as separation or bereavement. Sessions are offered in English and Ben accepts international clients. He aims to keep the process practical, offering tools and short exercises alongside conversational therapy.
The focus is on manageable steps that fit into everyday life.
How Ben brings therapy online using clear approaches
Ben uses client-centred work to build trust and signal listening. This approach focuses on understanding each person's experience and responding without judgement, which helps people feel heard and decide their own next steps.He also uses cognitive behavioural therapy or CBT to help identify unhelpful thought patterns and try different responses. CBT offers simple tools for tackling anxiety, low mood and stress by changing thoughts and behaviours.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Ben works collaboratively to decide which methods suit a person's goals and preferences. He will check in and adapt the mix of conversation, practical exercises and brief homework as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face when they prefer it. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or use less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging allow for check-ins, brief coaching or flexibility around schedules. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting around daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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