Ceri Westcott , BACP

Ceri Westcott is a counsellor who uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy alongside mindfulness and attachment-informed ideas. She focuses on helping women and other clients manage stress, anxiety and life changes. Ceri aims to help people build self-compassion and resilience so they can live in line with their values.

Ceri draws on nine years of experience working in the United Kingdom and is a BACP member. She offers straightforward, gentle guidance rather than heavy clinical language. Sessions can include simple mindfulness exercises and guided imagery when that fits the client's style.

Her approach is collaborative. She listens to someone’s story and looks at what matters most to them. From there she works with practical steps to reduce anxiety, cope with grief or rebuild confidence after trauma and abuse.

Ceri also helps people facing parenting and family-related stress, postpartum depression and the pressures that come with caregiving. She supports those dealing with relationship strain, career questions and challenges around young adulthood.

Clients can expect short, clear explanations and exercises to practise between sessions if they want them. Ceri adapts each plan to the person she is working with, using mindfulness, values work and attachment ideas as tools rather than rigid rules.

Therapeutic approaches for online counselling

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps towards those values. ACT uses practical exercises and mindfulness to reduce avoidance and increase meaningful action, which can help with anxiety and life changes.

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape current reactions. It can help people understand relationship strain, parenting difficulties and the ways they connect with others.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals, try out methods together and adjust what they do based on what helps you most. That makes the process collaborative rather than one-size-fits-all.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls let you work face to face from wherever you are. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to use video. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit short check-ins around work or caring responsibilities. These options give flexibility to keep therapy consistent even when life is busy.