Siobhan Hopkins , BACP

Siobhan Hopkins is a counsellor who focuses on women’s issues and related life pressures. She meets people where they are and helps them talk through relationship hurts, grief, parenting strains, career crossroads and anxiety. Sessions are offered online so people can connect from different places in the United Kingdom and abroad.

Her work emphasises gentleness and practical listening rather than quick fixes. Siobhan aims to help people make sense of long-standing patterns and of recent changes. That can look like noticing how past experiences shape current relationships, or finding small steps to manage stress and low mood.

She brings particular awareness to situations such as postnatal depression, living with family addiction, and the emotional aftermath of parental adultery. Siobhan also supports people who are re-evaluating faith, recovering from spiritual abuse, or navigating religious questions. She says these topics are often carried quietly, and she makes space for them to be named.

Siobhan trained at Newman University in Birmingham and has lived and worked in the UK, Ireland and the USA. She is BACP registered, which is listed among her credentials. She has four years of professional experience offering online counselling.

Her style is open, affirming and grounded in respect. She works collaboratively and uses a mixture of approaches aimed at helping each person find clarity, resilience and a renewed sense of direction.

How Siobhan uses different approaches in online counselling

Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape the way people connect now. It helps uncover patterns in relationships and supports building safer, more satisfying ways of relating. Client-centred work focuses on the person in the room - the therapist listens without judgement and follows the clients lead to help them find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together and offers practical steps to change unhelpful patterns.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Siobhan will talk through options and adapt methods to fit each persons needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative planning helps people know what to expect and keeps the work focused on what matters to them.

Online sessions make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls let people meet face to face from different locations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or those who prefer writing. These formats help people attend sessions from work, home or while travelling, and make it easier to maintain continuity during life changes.