Abigail Cruse , BACP

Abigail Cruse is a counsellor who uses reflective, meaning-focused approaches to help people navigate hard moments. She brings a calm, straightforward style to sessions and aims to make talking about stress, anxiety, grief and trauma easier to manage.

Abigail is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She has four years of clinical experience working with people facing relationship problems, addictions, parenting strains and mood concerns such as depression and bipolar. She also supports those coping with loss, compassion fatigue and issues around intimacy and identity.

In sessions she encourages honest conversation and gentle curiosity about thoughts and feelings. She draws on approaches that help people explore personal meaning, patterns from early life, bodily responses and present-moment awareness. Therapy is paced to each person’s needs and goals.

Abigail works with a wide range of concern areas including attachment and abandonment, family of origin issues, communication problems and difficulties after separation. She also helps people dealing with infertility stress, shame, guilt and recovery from domestic violence.

Her style aims to empower people to make practical changes and to understand emotional patterns. She offers a calm space where clients can start to try new ways of coping and relating to themselves. Abigail speaks English and works with people in the United Kingdom and internationally.

How her approaches work in online therapy

Existential Therapy focuses on questions about meaning, choice and purpose. It helps people facing life changes, grief or feelings of emptiness to identify values and make deliberate choices about how they want to live.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple, practical ways to notice thoughts and bodily signals without getting swept away by them. This can help with anxiety, stress and emotional ups and downs by creating space to respond rather than react.

Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on stabilising distressing symptoms and gradually processing traumatic memories. It aims to reduce the overwhelming hold of past events and build coping skills for daily life.

Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk about options, try different methods and adjust work to match a person’s needs and goals. Clients are involved in choosing what feels most useful for them as sessions progress.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let conversations feel closer to face-to-face, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins and text messaging suits brief reflections between appointments. These formats make it possible to fit therapy around work, family and travel while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.