Annie Haggarty , BACP

Annie Haggarty is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience and a BACP registration. She focuses on practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, low mood, stress or life changes. Annie also supports people coping with addictions, trauma and abuse, and those working on self-esteem and motivation.

Her work begins by listening to each person's story and recognising their strengths. She believes clients know their own lives best and uses that understanding to shape sessions. Conversations are straightforward and paced to suit the person's comfort level.

Annie uses talking therapies that help people develop clearer thinking and new coping habits. She draws on client-centred ways to follow what matters most to the client. She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviours.

Sessions are aimed at practical steps people can try between meetings. That might mean short exercises, simple behaviour experiments, or clearer ways to manage stress and low mood. Annie matches the work to each person's goals and day-to-day realities.

She works in English and accepts clients from outside the UK. People who want a calm, collaborative approach that focuses on real-life changes often find this style suitable. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used so sessions can be arranged to suit the client.

Online approaches that fit your life

Client-centred therapy focuses on the person's own perspective. The counsellor listens without directing and helps the client find their own solutions; this can be useful for building confidence and clarity around life choices.

Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together. It includes simple exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviours, which can help with anxiety, low mood and stress.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels helpful, then try methods that match those aims. That way the work can change as needs do, with practical steps agreed together.

Online sessions make it easier to fit counselling into busy lives. Video calls suit longer, face-to-face style conversations, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice-only check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send shorter updates, try brief check-ins between meetings, or communicate without being on camera. These options aim to give flexibility and consistency for ongoing work.