About Esmie
Esmie Wainwright is a counsellor who uses practical psychological approaches to help people manage anxiety, stress and relationship strain. She holds BACP and NCPS credentials and works with clients in the United Kingdom and internationally. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at making sessions feel straightforward and manageable.
Esmie combines cognitive behavioural ideas with attachment-focused thinking to look at how thoughts, feelings and early relationship patterns shape current problems.
Background and approach
She also uses client-centred listening to make space for each person's experience. Conversations are guided to surface patterns and then to try small, actionable changes. Clients who come for help with parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, or depression will find a focus on clear steps they can use between sessions.
Esmie pays attention to issues such as abandonment, attachment concerns and blended family dynamics when these are relevant. She also addresses problems like codependency, control issues and post-traumatic stress in practical ways. Sessions may include exploring unhelpful thought patterns, practising new ways of communicating, and noticing how past experiences affect present reactions.
The aim is to build useful skills and understanding rather than rely on jargon. Esmie explains techniques plainly and tailors the pace to the person seated across from her. Starting therapy is framed as a steady process.
Esmie encourages clients to set small goals and check progress as they go. Her background and approaches are chosen to help people feel more in control of anxiety and daily stresses.
Approaches you can use online and why they help
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and closeness. It can help when anxiety or relationship struggles are linked to patterns of trust, abandonment or attachment wounds.Client-centred therapy places the person's experience at the heart of sessions. The counsellor listens without judgement and helps people name their feelings and priorities, which is useful for those feeling overwhelmed by stress or depression.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Esmie will collaborate with clients to decide which ideas to focus on, combining methods when that suits a person's goals and preferences. This shared planning helps shape short-term goals and small steps to try between sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging lets someone check in or have shorter, more frequent contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring commitments or travel, and to try different ways of engaging while working on anxiety, relationships and stress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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