Annette Buswell , BACP

Annette Buswell offers calm, steady counselling aimed at people facing stress, anxiety, grief and life changes. She meets each person without judgment and helps them find practical ways to feel steadier. Sessions are intended to be a space to talk, reflect and try small changes that add up over time.

Annette draws on a mix of approaches to suit each person’s needs. She uses a person-centred way of working that focuses on empathy and strong therapeutic rapport. She also includes mindfulness-based practices and hypnotherapy when these are helpful for relaxation and reducing anxiety.

Her practice supports people with a wide range of concerns, from low self-esteem, depression and panic to addiction, relationship and family issues. She also works with trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, parenting stress, anger and career difficulties. Additional focus areas include body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and end-of-life matters.

Annette practises within the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy framework, and she has seven years’ experience. Sessions can be short-term or longer term depending on what the person wants to work on. The overall aim is to develop greater self-compassion and clearer ways forward.

People who choose her typically want a warm, steady therapist who listens and helps them discover their own solutions. The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s comfort. Practical tools and gentle reflection are used to support change and resilience.

How Annette’s approaches work online

Annette draws on client-centred work that puts the person’s experience first and builds a trusting therapeutic relationship. This approach helps when people need a steady listener and a space to make sense of difficult feelings and decisions.

She also uses mindfulness-based techniques to teach simple exercises for calming the body and mind. These practices support managing anxiety, improving sleep and reducing stress in day-to-day life. Hypnotherapy is offered as an option to help with deep relaxation and to access focused suggestions that can support behaviour change and confidence building.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques in session and adapt the plan as needs and goals become clearer. This is a collaborative process based on what helps most in practice.

Online therapy makes those options easier to access. Video calls recreate a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text-based messaging allows ongoing written reflection between sessions. These formats offer flexibility for different schedules and practical needs, helping people fit therapy into busy lives.