About Raymond
Raymond Ronan is a BACP counsellor with seven years of professional experience. He moved into therapy after a long corporate career and major personal health challenges. He now uses his own recovery story to support people facing hard life moments.
He keeps sessions straightforward and practical. Raymond listens first and asks questions to understand what matters to the client. He helps people identify small, manageable steps to reduce stress and anxious thoughts.
Background and approach
Work often focuses on changing unhelpful patterns in thinking and behaviour. Raymond draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive strategies, attachment ideas and client-centred listening. He mixes structured tools with open conversation depending on what a person needs.
Sessions may include skills practice, noticing thoughts, and setting realistic daily goals. His background includes a BA Honours degree in counselling and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Before training as a counsellor he worked in finance and management, and he also lived through serious illness and recovery.
Those experiences shape how he talks about resilience, work stress and life transitions. People come to Raymond for many issues, including stress, anxiety, addictions, grief and relationship difficulties. He will work collaboratively to make goals that fit each person.
The focus is on practical steps that can be used between sessions to build steadier routines and calmer thinking.
How Raymond integrates therapy approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting overwhelmed and then choose values-based actions. It is useful for stress, anxiety and life changes where avoidance has become the default. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting thinking patterns that fuel worry and testing them with practical experiments. It often helps with anxiety, low mood and changing unhelpful behaviour. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current ways of connecting and reacting, which can be helpful for relationship strain and trust issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Raymond will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then shape sessions from those conversations. This is a team effort - approaches can be mixed and adjusted as needs evolve so the therapy fits the person rather than the other way round.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues. Phone sessions suit people who prefer no video or have limited bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, written reflections and ongoing contact between sessions. These options help make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel while still using structured therapeutic tools.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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