About Bernadette
Bernadette Hall is a counsellor with NCPS and 13 years of experience supporting people through difficult times. She works with individuals facing anxiety as well as relationship and family challenges. Her background includes helping people cope with trauma, grief and loss.
She frames sessions around listening first. Bernadette creates a calm space for people to talk about what is worrying them. She focuses on simple, practical steps that can ease stress and improve day-to-day coping.
Background and approach
Her work draws on a mix of evidence-informed approaches. She uses cognitive behavioural techniques to spot and change unhelpful thinking. She brings attachment-based ideas to help with relationship and intimacy concerns.
Sessions also make use of acceptance and commitment ideas and dialectical behaviour strategies when they suit the situation. Bernadette adapts methods to fit someone’s goals rather than following one fixed model. The emphasis is on what helps the person feel steadier and more able to manage life’s demands.
People often come with worries about sleep, eating, addiction or low self-esteem. She also supports those adjusting to major life changes or coping with chronic health issues. Bernadette works with people across a wide range of concerns and tailors each plan to their needs.
Approaches that suit online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then focus on actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns, often helping with sleep, worry and mood. Attachment-Based Therapy considers how past relationship patterns shape current difficulties and can support work on intimacy, communication and family stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about what matters to them and try different methods to find what fits best. This is a collaborative process aimed at meeting the client’s goals and preferences rather than following one set method.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can suit shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth, and chat or messaging helps when someone prefers written reflection or needs flexible timing. These options support continuity of care and make it simpler to keep appointments across different routines and time zones.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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