About John
John Edgar is a BACP counsellor with ten years of experience in mental health settings across the United Kingdom. He works with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and health-related challenges such as cancer. He also supports those dealing with career difficulties, depression, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and concerns around self-esteem and anger.
John has worked in a range of settings including schools, prisons and cancer charities.
Background and approach
That variety means he is used to different kinds of pressure and life change. He draws on practical approaches to help people manage immediate problems and daily demands. Sessions are paced to the person.
John aims to listen without judgement and to treat everyone with respect and sensitivity. He tailors each meeting to what the client needs that week rather than using a fixed script. When handling trauma or grief he focuses on tangible steps clients can use between sessions.
For career, ADHD or compassion fatigue concerns he helps people set priorities, plan tasks and build coping routines. For relationship or intimacy worries he works on communication and understanding patterns that cause pain. John offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their life.
He accepts international clients and practices from the UK under his BACP credential. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled to suit the client.
Approaches that guide online counselling and how they help
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques often focus on practical skills and structured work. One common approach uses short-term strategies to manage anxiety and stress by teaching breathing, grounding and planning techniques that reduce immediate overwhelm. This helps when worry or panic make day-to-day tasks hard.Another helpful method concentrates on processing difficult experiences such as trauma, abuse or grief. It involves pacing sessions, making sense of what happened and building small routines that restore stability. This approach suits people who need stepwise support for painful memories and life changes.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The counsellor will discuss concerns, goals and preferences and together they will try ideas that fit the client. If something does not feel helpful, the plan can be adjusted to find a better fit.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is well suited to in-depth work and reading non-verbal cues, phone calls need less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging lets people write when it suits them. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family and travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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