About Millie
Millie Ashton is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 15 years of experience. Millie works in a client-centred way and meets people where they are. She focuses on stress, anxiety and related concerns and aims to make conversations straightforward and useful.
Millie uses a person-led approach so sessions follow what matters most to the person in the room. She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help spot unhelpful thinking and to try small, practical changes between sessions.
Background and approach
The mix of listening and skill-building means clients leave with clearer steps to try. Her background includes long experience supporting people with depression, grief, relationship and parenting worries, and a range of trauma and abuse issues. Millie has practical experience from many years as a foster carer, working with young people who have experienced emotional and physical harm.
That work influences her calm, steady style. Millie is comfortable discussing LGBT concerns and gender dysphoria alongside life changes, career pressure, addiction and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with attachment, adoption and ageing issues, and a number of care-related stresses.
Sessions aim to be non-judgemental and focused on what the client wants to work on. Millie encourages honest, steady work rather than quick fixes. She talks plainly about what therapy involves and helps people decide if the approach feels right.
If a different match would be better, she supports that move so the person can get the best possible help.
How Millie combines client-centred work and CBT online
Millie blends a client-centred style with cognitive behavioural techniques when working online. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and following the person's priorities so sessions change with what matters most in the moment; this helps when people bring complex feelings like grief, gender uncertainty or relationship strain. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and offers practical steps to test small changes between sessions, which can be useful for anxiety, stress and low mood.Deciding which approach to use is collaborative. Millie will talk through goals, preferences and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they will try approaches and adapt them over time so the work fits the person's needs and pace rather than forcing a fixed method.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared worksheets, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and travel and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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