Fiona Adams , BACP

Fiona Adams is a BACP counsellor who brings five years' practical experience to conversations about tough life moments. She listens without judgement and helps people name what is wrong. Her style is calm and direct, aimed at making sessions feel manageable and understandable.

Fiona focuses on everyday problems that can become overwhelming. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, low mood, relationship difficulty and grief. She also supports those facing trauma, abuse, intimacy concerns, eating and sleeping problems, and issues linked to ADHD and bipolar mood swings.

Her approach draws on attachment-based work and cognitive techniques alongside mindfulness and narrative ideas. Sessions often look at how past experiences shape present reactions. Fiona uses practical steps to reduce distress and clearer ways to think about recurring problems.

Fiona has experience supporting people affected by fertility and pregnancy loss and has worked within a sexual abuse charity. She has also worked with people who have medical careers and emergency services backgrounds, and she is a member of the British Infertility Counselling Association (BICA).

People who come to her can expect a collaborative process. Fiona helps clients identify goals and tries out small changes between sessions. Her aim is to help people feel less overwhelmed and to build tools they can use day to day.

How Fiona’s approaches work online

Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. Online sessions can gently map patterns that show up in close relationships and help people try new ways of relating.

Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings and actions. In online sessions this often means identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing them, and practising different responses between meetings to reduce anxiety or low mood.

Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity. These exercises are easy to try during a video call or as short text-based prompts between sessions to build steadiness over time.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then agree a plan together. That plan can change as needs evolve, with regular check-ins about progress.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when visual connection matters. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or text messaging can provide brief check-ins or ongoing prompts between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or medical commitments.