Sally Willsher , BACP

Sally Willsher is a counsellor with 16 years' experience who focuses on helping women manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, family difficulties, grief and major life changes. She aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable and welcomes conversations about what is worrying you right now. Her approach is calm and straightforward so people can talk honestly about what matters most to them.

Sally has worked extensively with unpaid carers and understands the guilt, resentment and exhaustion that can come with that role. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment concerns, body image, illness, divorce and blended family issues. Practical coping strategies and small, steady changes are central to her way of working.

Her background includes roles as a Counselling Service Manager and a Counselling Student Placement Manager, and she has logged over 2200 counselling hours. Sally holds BACP registration, which is noted in her professional details. She is also a qualified supervisor and keeps up with continuing professional development and counselling legislation.

In sessions she focuses on creating an open, non-judgemental space for people to say what they need to say. Conversations can combine reflection on past patterns with simple tools to manage day-to-day stress. Sally works collaboratively to help people find what makes sense for them.

Therapy with her can use a mix of short-term practical techniques and deeper exploration depending on the problem. She offers help in English and accepts clients in the United Kingdom and internationally, using video, phone, chat or messaging when that suits the client.

How Sally adapts therapeutic approaches for online work

Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. In online sessions this approach helps people notice patterns in relationships, understand triggers and practise new ways of connecting and communicating. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. In remote sessions CBT is used to spot unhelpful thinking, try small experiments and build simple routines to reduce anxiety and stress.

Sally treats finding the right approach as a shared task. She will discuss preferences, goals and what feels most useful, then try techniques together to see what helps. That collaborative process means plans can change as needs become clearer.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a visual connection helps. Phone sessions are useful for lower bandwidth or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, written reflection or days when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it possible to fit counselling around work, caring duties and day-to-day life while keeping the therapeutic work steady and ongoing.