About Bethany
Bethany Fenton is a counsellor who focuses on anxiety and stress, and on relationship and intimacy concerns. She works in a person-centred way, so the client sets the pace and agenda for sessions. Bethany aims to create an accepting environment where people can speak without judgement and make sense of what is troubling them.
She uses straightforward conversation to help people name what is happening for them. That might include worries about self-esteem, feelings of isolation, or struggles with gender and sexual identity.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with attachment or abandonment concerns and issues around body image or sexual wellbeing. Bethany has four years of clinical experience and has spent a year teaching counselling students. Her practice is gender-affirming and welcoming to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people.
Sessions are offered in English and take place with online formats such as video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Typical sessions begin by finding what the client wants to focus on, then building on their own knowledge and strengths. Bethany listens closely and reflects what she hears to help people gain clarity and make different choices.
She aims for practical steps you can use between sessions. People who value a calm, patient listener often appreciate this way of working. The emphasis is on understanding personal experience and on moving at a pace that feels right for the individual.
How Bethany uses person-centred work online
Person-centred counselling invites the client to lead the conversation. The counsellor reflects back what they hear and supports the person to explore feelings and priorities. This approach helps when anxiety, self-esteem or relationship worries feel overwhelming because it centres the client's own knowledge and choices.For people exploring gender, sexuality or intimacy concerns, a gender-affirming, non-judgemental stance is often most helpful. That means listening to how someone describes themselves and following their lead about what matters. The counsellor helps make sense of confusing emotions and considers practical next steps that suit the individual's life.
Finding the right way of working is a shared process. Bethany will talk with each person about what they hope to get from therapy and try approaches that match those goals. If something isn't helpful, she will adjust the pace or focus in collaboration with the client.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people use visual cues and hold a longer conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is low or a quieter check-in is needed, and live chat or text are useful for shorter updates or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work and family demands while keeping the focus on the person's priorities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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