Stella Scrivens , BACP

Stella Scrivens is a person centred counsellor who offers a calm, accepting space for women facing stress, anxiety, grief and other life challenges. She writes plainly and listens closely, helping people talk through what matters to them without rushing to give answers. Her approach is warm and respectful, aimed at helping people feel understood and more able to move forward.

She has three years of professional experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Stella draws on client-centred work that places the person’s experience at the centre of each session. She uses gentle hypnotherapy techniques for specific concerns such as phobias and fear of flying, and also offers trauma-focused methods for people coping with past hurts.

Sessions typically focus on what is most pressing for the client, whether that is anxiety, relationship worries, changes at work, parenting strain or problems with sleep and appetite. Stella helps people make sense of difficult feelings and notices patterns that get in the way of change. Conversations are practical and paced to suit the individual.

She also uses ideas from psychodynamic thinking and transactional analysis to explore recurring relationship patterns and early influences on current behaviour. These approaches can help with long-standing difficulties like attachment struggles, low self-esteem, and codependency.

Her style is collaborative – Stella works alongside each person to set goals and try different ways of coping. Sessions are offered online to people in the United Kingdom and internationally, and she supports clients in English.

How Stella’s approaches work online

Stella uses client-centred work that focuses on the person’s own experience and priorities. This approach involves listening deeply, reflecting what is said, and helping people set their own goals. It is useful for anxiety, stress, low mood and relationship concerns.

She also offers clinical hypnotherapy as a gentle option for specific issues such as phobias, fear of flying and weight management. Hypnotherapy in this context involves guided relaxation and imagery to support behaviour change or reduce distress. Trauma-focused methods are used when people bring past hurt that still affects their daily life; these approaches help reduce the intensity of memories and the ways those memories influence current reactions.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Stella works collaboratively to decide which methods suit a person’s needs, goals and preferences. She may combine person centred listening with targeted hypnotherapy or trauma-focused techniques depending on what feels most helpful.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone calls can be simpler if bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging allows ongoing support between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while working with registered or accredited professionals.