About Norma
Norma Boyd is a counsellor with six years' experience who works with people facing anxiety, stress, depression and relationship strain. She holds BACP registration from the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and offers straightforward, person-centred support. Norma aims to make the first step easier for someone who is nervous about starting therapy.
She draws on a few different approaches and adapts them to suit each person. Sessions focus on the immediate problems you bring, such as coping with grief, parenting pressures, family change or career transitions.
Background and approach
Conversations are paced to match what feels manageable for the client. Norma has practical experience supporting people after bereavement, including those affected by suicide loss, from earlier helpline work and later therapy roles. That background shapes how she holds difficult topics and follows a person’s lead.
She encourages people to notice small changes that make daily life feel less overwhelming. Therapy combines listening with simple, usable ideas drawn from psychological approaches. You can expect time to talk through feelings and to try tools that help with worry, unhelpful thinking patterns and relationship tensions.
The focus is on what will help you cope better between sessions. Sessions are offered in English and can be conducted remotely by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. Norma welcomes people living in the United Kingdom and international clients who prefer online sessions.
To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange a time to meet.
How Norma’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person without judgement; it helps when someone needs space to make sense of feelings and to be heard. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together and offers practical exercises to reduce worry and manage symptoms of anxiety or low mood.Deciding which approach to use is a joint process. The therapist will discuss what you want to change and try out ideas together, adapting the work as your needs and goals become clearer. That collaborative way of working lets you test what feels most useful over a few sessions.
Online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video allows face-to-face conversation from different locations. Phone calls can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, written reflection or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options add flexibility and can help people maintain continuity of care around work, family and travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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