Olivia Stewart , BACP

Olivia Stewart is a BACP counsellor with three years of clinical experience. She has spent a decade in roles that involved helping others, and now focuses on counselling individuals through stress, anxiety and relationship concerns.

Olivia works in a relational way and places value on the client’s own knowledge of their life. She believes people hold strengths that help them get through hard times, and she aims to support and empower clients as they make changes.

In sessions she draws on client-centred methods that keep the conversation focused on what matters to the individual. She also uses cognitive behavioural ideas to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking.

Olivia pays attention to attachment and abandonment themes that often show up in relationships. She helps people talk through family conflict, commitment worries, communication problems and issues around intimacy and trust.

She also offers practical work around sleep, anger, self-esteem and coping with life changes, including career shifts and caregiving stress. Olivia can discuss experiences of trauma, addiction, chronic illness and concerns related to LGBT identity.

Sessions can be short term or longer term depending on what a person wants. Olivia aims to collaborate on goals and to adapt her approach as work progresses, helping people build clearer choices and steadier day-to-day coping.

Approaches and online counselling options

Olivia uses client-centred therapy to keep the focus on the person and their goals, listening closely and helping clients name what matters. This approach is useful for people wanting a supportive space to explore feelings and decisions.

She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions. CBT helps when someone wants to reduce anxiety, tackle low mood or change habits that get in the way of daily life.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Olivia will collaborate with each person to decide which methods suit their needs and goals, and she will adapt the plan as progress is made.

Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls are good for a face-to-face feel, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people write between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel and to continue work when circumstances change.