About Melissa
Melissa Foster is a BACP counsellor who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She supports those facing relationship strain, parenting pressures, grief and big life changes. Her style is warm and down-to-earth, making it easier to take a first step into therapy.
Melissa draws on a mix of approaches to suit each person. She listens first, then works with you to set practical goals. Sessions may include talking through patterns, developing coping skills, and trying small changes that feel realistic.
Background and approach
With five years of experience, Melissa has worked with people dealing with low self-esteem, career worries, and family problems. She has also supported clients with attachment and abandonment concerns, infidelity, and separation. Her background includes Level 5 training in Psychotherapeutic Counselling and membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, which is recorded as BACP.
Her sessions are collaborative and paced to the individual. She often uses client-centred techniques alongside cognitive behavioural tools and psychodynamic thinking to uncover recurring themes. Solution-focused strategies are used when short-term practical steps will help.
Sessions are offered in English and held online by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Melissa works from the United Kingdom and does not take international clients. To start, people complete a short questionnaire and book a session that suits their schedule.
How Melissa uses different approaches online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding your experience without judgement. It helps people who need a safe space to talk, build self-awareness, and gain confidence in their decisions.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, often called CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It is useful for anxiety and stress because it teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and to try new behaviours.
Therapy is collaborative and finding the right method is part of the work. Melissa will discuss options with you, check what feels most useful, and adapt the plan as you progress so sessions match your goals and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different routines. Video calls are good when face-to-face interaction helps, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can fit short check-ins or busy schedules. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping a steady pace of support for anxiety and life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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