Annabel Minors , BACP

Annabel Minors is a counsellor with 12 years' experience supporting people through stress, anxiety and difficult life changes. She is BACP registered and works from a calm, listening stance. Annabel speaks English and French and brings practical, down-to-earth care to conversations about mental health and relationships.

She offers a gentle, accepting approach that encourages people to talk at their own pace. Sessions focus on understanding what feels hard right now and on uncovering patterns that keep problems repeating. Annabel aims to help people find clearer ways to cope and to make changes they want to hold onto.

Her work often covers low mood and depression, low self-esteem, and anxiety. Relationship concerns feature frequently, including issues with partners, family members or colleagues. She also supports people facing separation, infidelity, jealousy, communication problems and workplace strain.

Annabel has personal experience of adapting to other cultures and languages after moving to France in her twenties. That background informs her sensitivity to multicultural concerns, feeling rootless, isolation and the strain of not fitting in. She also has experience with attachment issues, guilt and shame, and feelings of emptiness.

In sessions she combines a client-centred way of listening with psychodynamic ideas about past experience and patterns. Conversations are intended to be practical and compassionate, helping people make sense of their feelings and try different ways of relating and coping.

How her approaches work in online therapy

Client-Centred Therapy places the person and their experience at the heart of each session. The therapist listens without judgement, follows what matters to the client and helps people find their own solutions. This approach is useful for anxiety, stress, low self-esteem and everyday relationship problems.

Psychodynamic Therapy looks at how past experiences and repeated patterns shape current feelings and behaviours. It helps uncover underlying issues such as attachment difficulties, guilt or long-standing relational patterns that keep causing distress.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Annabel will talk with each person about goals and preferences and will adapt her way of working as understanding grows. That collaborative process helps decide whether to focus on here-and-now coping or on exploring deeper patterns.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and hold longer conversations. Phone sessions suit those who prefer not to be on camera or need lower bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, written reflection or when scheduling makes real-time sessions harder to arrange. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.