About Ryan
Ryan Powell is a counsellor who aims to walk alongside people during difficult times. He brings three years of experience working in NHS IAPT services and in prison mental health support, plus independent practice work. Ryan uses a kind but direct style and focuses on anxiety and depression among other concerns.
He offers a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk about what matters most to them. Conversations are guided by the client’s priorities, with gentle challenge when it helps move things forward.
Background and approach
Ryan works to make sessions feel practical and grounded rather than abstract. In sessions he draws on client-centred listening, cognitive behavioural techniques and psychodynamic ideas. That means he listens closely to a person’s experience, helps spot unhelpful patterns, and looks at how past events might shape current feelings.
He adapts these ideas to each person rather than following a fixed formula. Ryan has experience supporting people with stress, addictions, relationship worries, trauma, eating concerns and issues around sexuality and gender. He also addresses codependency, obsessive thoughts and addiction-related challenges.
His background includes short-term therapy in community services and mental health work with men in prison. People who prefer honest, straightforward conversations tend to find his approach useful. Sessions aim to help people manage everyday difficulties, build better coping skills and make clearer decisions about their next steps.
Ryan offers appointments in English and accepts international clients.
Approaches for online counselling and how they help
Client-Centred Therapy is about being heard. The counsellor listens without judgement and follows what matters to the client. This approach helps when someone needs space to make sense of feelings and decide what matters next.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns that keep problems going. It helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. CBT is often used for anxiety, obsessions and low mood because it focuses on practical changes.
Psychodynamic ideas explore how past experiences influence current reactions. This can help when long-standing patterns or repeated relationship difficulties are causing distress. Sessions gently examine those patterns to find new ways of relating to oneself and others.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and then shape sessions together. That means plans can change as therapy progresses to focus on what is most helpful.
Online sessions are offered by registered or accredited professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation, phone is useful when bandwidth is low, live chat suits short check-ins and text messaging lets someone reflect between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family and travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Anger management
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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