About Robert
Robert Winstanley is a BACP counsellor with nine years' experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. He works in a straightforward, respectful way and aims to make sessions easy to follow. He listens without judgement and helps people find practical steps they can try between sessions.
He draws on a person-centred outlook, putting the client's perspective at the heart of the work. He blends that with practical problem-solving ideas from Egan's Skilled Helper model.
Background and approach
Together these approaches help people talk through feelings and test small changes that can improve day-to-day life. Robert has worked in the NHS and employee assistance programmes across England and Ireland. He has supported people with depression, bereavement, relationship strain, and work-related stress.
He has experience with clients from varied cultural and neurodiverse backgrounds. He also offers Critical Incident Stress Management debriefs and travels to workplaces around the UK for that work. In those situations he helps people process traumatic events and identify immediate coping steps.
Sessions are practical and collaborative. Robert encourages simple experiments - setting boundaries, adjusting routines, or trying new communication techniques - and reviews what helps. He keeps the focus on small, achievable change and on restoring balance when life feels overwhelming.
How these approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person's experience and aims to create a supportive space where they can speak openly. It helps with anxiety, low mood and struggles with self-esteem by prioritising understanding and acceptance.Solution-Focused Therapy looks at practical steps and small goals. It helps people who want quick, concrete changes in work, relationships or daily routines by identifying what works and doing more of it.
Trauma-Focused Therapy offers ways to process distressing events and to build immediate coping strategies. This approach can be useful after critical incidents or other traumatic experiences.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs, and they will adjust methods as work progresses to find the best fit.
Online sessions are offered by registered or accredited professionals via video, phone, live chat or text messaging. Video suits in-depth conversations, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, chat and messaging work well for shorter check-ins or for people who prefer not to use a camera. These options let people fit therapy around work, travel or family life and make regular support easier to maintain.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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