About Geraldine
Geraldine Costello is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress and life changes. She uses a calm, non-judgemental style to make it easier to talk about painful or difficult things. Geraldine draws on ten years of professional experience and works in the United Kingdom.
She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, listed as BACP. Geraldine keeps sessions straightforward and practical. She listens first, then helps people find small steps that feel doable.
Background and approach
Motivational Interviewing is part of her work when clients want to change habits or face addictions. Cognitive Behavioural ideas are used to spot unhelpful thinking and try different ways of responding. Her person-centred approach means the conversation is led by the client’s needs and priorities.
Geraldine aims to create a warm, accepting space where people can speak freely. She pays close attention to grief and loss, pregnancy care issues and post-abortion counselling, which she has supported for many years. She also helps people facing relationship strain, low self-esteem, trauma and intimacy concerns.
Additional areas include ADHD, autism and issues around caregiving, fertility and end-of-life care. Geraldine adapts her approach to each person’s situation rather than using a one-size-fits-all method. Sessions can be conducted online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Geraldine aims to work collaboratively to set goals and decide the pace of therapy. She presents herself as an empathic listener who honours each person’s story.
How Geraldine’s approaches work online
Geraldine uses a person-centred approach that prioritises the client’s own goals and pace. This method focuses on listening, acceptance and building trust so people can talk openly about what matters to them.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy ideas to help identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical alternatives. CBT techniques are helpful for anxiety, low mood and coping with stressful situations. Motivational Interviewing is used when someone is looking to change a habit or increase motivation; it helps people explore their own reasons for change and plan small steps forward.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Geraldine treats the choice of methods as a collaborative decision based on the client’s needs, goals and preferences. She will check in regularly and adapt the style or tools if something isn’t helpful.
Online sessions can happen by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions fit a quieter time or when video is difficult. Live chat and text messaging can work as shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family or travel and help people access support from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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