- Years in practice
- 7
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Grief
- Focus
- Self esteem
About Annette
Annette Buswell is a counsellor with seven years' experience based in the United Kingdom. She works with adults who are coping with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression and life changes. She also supports people dealing with relationship and family tensions, addictions, trauma, anger and parenting concerns.
Her practice draws on a range of approaches so sessions can be shaped to each person's needs. Annette uses a person-centred way of working that values empathy and building a strong therapeutic relationship.
Background and approach
That helps people go at their own pace while they talk through what has been happening in their lives. Annette also practises hypnotherapy and mindfulness techniques, including mindful relaxation sessions. She offers both short-term, solution-focused work and longer-term psychodynamic exploration when that better suits someone’s goals.
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, known as BACP. Annette follows the BACP Ethical Framework and draws on her independent practice experience to choose practical tools that fit each person. Sessions aim to help people find more satisfying, healthier ways of living.
Annette emphasises self-compassion and steady change, and supports clients to discover their own path forward in a respectful, non-judgemental space.
What Annette works with
Everything Annette lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Annette helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Annette lists
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
Online approaches that fit your life
Annette offers a person-centred approach that focuses on listening and building rapport so people can share at their own pace; this tends to suit worries about anxiety, low self-esteem and relationship strain. Mindfulness therapy involves simple breathing and awareness exercises and mindful relaxation to reduce stress and improve emotional balance. Hypnotherapy is used as a practical tool to access focussed relaxation and support changes in habits or unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Annette will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then blend methods to match those needs. That collaborative process helps decide whether short-term solution-focused sessions or longer psychodynamic exploration will be most useful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their day. Video calls are good for full conversations and visual connection, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging suits short updates or people who prefer writing. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, childcare and other commitments.
Questions people ask about Annette
What kinds of problems can be addressed here?
Annette works with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, relationship and family concerns, parenting issues and trauma, among other areas listed in her profile.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She takes a person-centred approach that emphasises empathy and rapport, and combines it with mindfulness, hypnotherapy, psychodynamic ideas and solution-focused techniques as needed.
What is her experience and background?
Annette has seven years of clinical experience in independent practice and brings that experience to sessions when choosing helpful techniques.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the UK work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Annette offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different preferences and schedules.
How do subscriptions, cost and getting started work?
Session costs vary with location and therapist availability and are provided through a subscription that can be cancelled at any time; to begin you use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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