Andrea Reid , BACP

Andrea Reid offers a calm, person-centred approach that puts the client at the heart of therapy. She uses client-centred methods alongside cognitive behavioural and psychodynamic ideas to help people manage stress, anxiety and everyday pressures. Andrea is identified as BACP, which is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and she brings three years of professional experience to her work.

Andrea helps people who are coping with life changes and challenges at work. She supports those feeling low in self-esteem, struggling with motivation or dealing with career uncertainty. Parenting concerns and the practical strain of caring roles are also areas she talks through with clients.

Her wider focus includes issues tied to midlife and ageing, fertility and pregnancy concerns, postpartum depression, and cancer-related distress. She also works with people facing financial worries, hoarding behaviours, dissociation, emptiness and panic episodes. Andrea takes a steady, non-judgemental stance when people bring these varied problems to sessions.

In practice she listens for what matters most to each person and helps them build on their own strengths. Sessions often involve practical thinking strategies from cognitive behavioural work, alongside exploring patterns and feelings using psychodynamic ideas. The overall aim is to help people develop clearer ways to cope and move forward.

Andrea offers appointments in the United Kingdom and conducts therapy in English. She supports people through different formats so that therapy can fit around busy lives.

How Her Approaches Work Online

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on understanding each person as an individual. The therapist listens actively and helps clients identify their own strengths and goals. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches straightforward strategies to manage anxiety, panic and stress.

Finding the right approach often takes a little time. Andrea will work together with each person to decide which mix of listening, practical CBT tools and exploration of life patterns best fits their needs, goals and preferences. That choice is part of the therapeutic process rather than fixed at the start.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to make therapy easier to fit into everyday life. Video calls help keep conversations face to face when that matters. Phone sessions suit people who prefer not to be on camera or who need a lower-bandwidth option. Live chat and text-based messaging can be used for shorter check-ins, ongoing reflection between sessions or when written communication feels more helpful. These options aim to make support flexible and more accessible for people juggling work, family and other commitments.