About Edward
Edward Mcguinness is a UK-based counsellor with three years of professional experience supporting people through stress and anxiety. He approaches sessions with respect, sensitivity and compassion. He aims to tailor conversations and plans to each person’s needs and goals.
He has worked with employee assistance and similar workplace programmes. That experience means he understands work-related pressures and practical demands on time. He also supports people dealing with relationship strain, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and depression.
Background and approach
In sessions he uses straightforward, collaborative conversations. He listens and helps people notice patterns in thoughts and feelings. He then suggests simple, practical steps to try between meetings and checks how they work for the individual.
Edward draws on methods such as cognitive behavioural techniques and acceptance and commitment ideas to help with worry and unhelpful thinking. He also uses client-centred and emotionally focused approaches where relationship issues or personal values are central. He accepts international clients and works in English.
Sessions can be by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to fit different schedules. To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange appointments that suit their timetable. Edward encourages realistic goals and small steps.
He supports people who want clearer thinking, better coping with change, or relief from persistent worry and low mood.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Edward uses cognitive behavioural therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns; this can be useful for anxiety, sleep problems and low mood. He also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy which focuses on values and learning how to live with difficult thoughts rather than trying to eliminate them. Emotionally focused and client-centred ideas are used when relationship dynamics or personal meaning are central to the work.Finding the right approach is part of the process. He works collaboratively to choose methods that fit a person’s goals, preferences and day-to-day demands. That means trying approaches, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together as progress is reviewed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different schedules. Video calls work well for a full conversational session, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit shorter check-ins, and messaging offers an option for ongoing written support between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments, and to keep sessions consistent despite changing circumstances.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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