Brigitte Stephenson , BACP

Brigitte Stephenson is a counsellor who uses an integrative approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief and other life challenges. She holds BACP registration, and brings five years of practice supporting adults through difficult times. Brigitte writes simply and listens closely to what matters to each person.

She combines ways of working such as attachment-based ideas, client-centred listening and cognitive behavioural techniques. In sessions she helps people understand how past experiences affect current feelings. She also offers practical steps to change unhelpful patterns and manage strong emotions.

Brigitte has particular experience with trauma and abuse, coping with grief and parenting concerns. She also supports people dealing with low self-esteem, addictions, relationship and family problems, eating concerns and compassion fatigue. Additional areas she attends to include adoption and foster care, attachment issues, body image and caregiver stress.

Sessions are conversational and collaborative. She aims to create a calm space where a person decides the goals and pace. Practical tools, gentle reflection and motivational interviewing can be used alongside deeper emotional work.

Brigitte works with people in the United Kingdom and accepts international clients in English. Her practice offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text‑based messaging so people can choose the format that fits their life.

Therapeutic approaches you can use online

Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current ways of relating and feeling. Online sessions can help people notice patterns in relationships and practise new ways of connecting. Client-centred therapy gives people space to speak without judgement while the counsellor follows the person's lead; it is useful for building self-worth and finding clarity. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical strategies to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful behaviours.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, listen to preferences and try different techniques to discover what helps best. That collaboration means sessions can shift over time as needs change and progress becomes clearer.

Online work makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat lets someone check in during a short break, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats offer flexibility so people can choose what suits their routine and comfort while using the approaches described above.