Sally Smith, BACP

Sally Smith is a UK-based counsellor who supports children, young people and adults, working with clients from around 11 years of age through to their seventies. She brings five years of experience and splits her time between work with young people and adults, offering both in-person and online or telephone sessions. She is experienced in short-term counselling with a set number of sessions as well as longer open-ended therapy.

Sally is a registered member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP), a professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists. Her therapeutic style is warm and encouraging, and she aims to provide a non-judgemental space where people can explore the difficulties they are facing in a collaborative way.

Her practice is led by each client’s needs; when those needs are unclear she works alongside clients to identify them. Her work is grounded in a humanistic, client-centered approach, and she integrates compassionate inquiry, cognitive behavioural techniques and resilience-building strategies when appropriate.

Sally has experience supporting people with depression, anxiety, stress, bereavement and various forms of loss, as well as relationship difficulties with partners, friends, parents, children and colleagues. She also works with career-related concerns including impostor syndrome, and has experience with obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and other trauma-related issues. She maintains an additional focus on young adult concerns.

She values the therapeutic relationship and considers it central to the work, and she says it is a privilege to meet people in the course of her practice. Taking the first step toward change can feel daunting, and she welcomes enquiries from those considering therapy.