About Patricia
Patricia Foster is a counsellor and BACP member with two decades of helping people manage difficult life moments. She focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and anxiety, tackle addictions, and rebuild confidence. Patricia writes simply and listens closely to what matters most to each person.
Her background includes long experience supporting people with depression, trauma and abuse, relationship strains and parenting challenges. She has worked with clients facing grief, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD and complex personality and attachment issues.
Background and approach
This range means she often combines different approaches to suit the situation. Patricia’s work is rooted in person-centred principles. That means the conversation starts with the client’s priorities and moves at their pace.
She blends that stance with cognitive behavioural tools to identify unhelpful thinking and with elements from emotionally-focused and attachment-based ways of working when relationships or past losses are central. Sessions are collaborative and practical. People can expect clear, manageable steps between meetings alongside space to talk things through.
The aim is to reduce overwhelm, improve coping and help people regain more control over day-to-day life. Her practice is UK-based and she communicates in English. Patricia also accepts international clients and offers a range of online formats to suit different lifestyles and schedules.
If someone wants a straightforward, steady approach, she helps them shape goals and a plan that fit their life.
How attachment and CBT translate to online therapy
Patricia commonly uses attachment-based work to look at patterns from past relationships and how they affect current feelings and connections. This approach helps when people want to understand why they react strongly in close relationships or feel unsafe trusting others.She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence. CBT is useful for tackling anxiety, low mood and repetitive worry by teaching practical techniques and small behavioural experiments.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Patricia works together with each person to decide what methods match their goals and preferences. That means plans can change as progress is made or new issues arise, and the therapist checks in regularly about what is working.
Online therapy makes these approaches easier to access. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a deeper, interactive session is needed. Phone sessions are useful for people with lower bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins and a way to reflect in writing between meetings. Together these options give flexibility to fit therapy around work, family and travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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