Anna Channon , BACP

Anna Channon is a counsellor with a degree in Psychotherapeutic Counselling and four years of client work. She focuses on helping people who feel disconnected from themselves and their bodies. She often supports those who have experienced acute or long-term trauma and who want to understand themselves better so they can make changes.

Her background combines relational and integrative ideas. Sessions are conversational and practical. She brings attention to how thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations connect. Breath work and simple body-based practices are sometimes used alongside talk therapy.

Many people come for help with anxiety, stress, depression, grief and life changes. She also works with concerns such as sleep and eating difficulties, body image, attachment and past sexual abuse. She will talk through what feels most pressing and shape the work around those needs.

Anna values creativity and nature as therapeutic resources. Movement, drawing or guided breath exercises might appear in sessions, and no artistic skill is needed. The aim is to find ways of being with feelings that feel manageable and real for the person in the room.

She offers sessions remotely by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, and accepts international clients. Anna is due to start maternity leave in February 2025 and is prioritising short to medium term work that fits before then.

How Anna's approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current bonds and emotional patterns. Online sessions can help people notice repeating patterns in close relationships and practise new ways of connecting to themselves and others.

Client-centred therapy focuses on understanding the person from their own point of view and offering empathic, non-judgemental presence. In an online session this means the counsellor listens closely and follows what matters most to the client while reflecting it back gently.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Anna will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs and then try methods that suit the person. That decision is collaborative and can be reviewed as work progresses.

Online therapy offers flexibility for different routines and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is low, live chat or text-based messaging suit brief check-ins or people who find typing easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and travel while still accessing a registered or accredited professional.