Fiona Platts , BACP

Fiona Platts is a UK counsellor with three years of direct client experience in private practice and online settings. She works with people facing trauma and abuse, sexual abuse, stress and anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief and loss, and depression, offering steady professional support as they navigate difficult life events.

She brings a flexible, person-focused approach, tailoring sessions to each individual and adjusting pace to what feels comfortable and manageable. Her work emphasizes helping clients view themselves and their circumstances from new perspectives so they can find practical ways forward and build resilience. Fiona holds BACP credentials - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - which reflects her adherence to recognised professional standards.

Fiona aims to empower clients through collaboration, respecting each person s goals and preferences while offering guidance and coping strategies. She also supports people dealing with family and parenting challenges, blended family issues, caregiver stress, body image concerns, codependency, communication and commitment problems, and career or self-esteem struggles. Her practice is focused on helping people take the first steps toward change and sustaining those steps over time.

Therapeutic approaches and online support with Fiona Platts

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person s own resources and strengths, offering empathic listening and acceptance so individuals can explore feelings, make choices, and build self-understanding; it is useful for stress, self-esteem, relationship issues, and life transitions.

Trauma-Focused Therapy addresses the effects of traumatic events by helping people process memories and reduce the ongoing impact of trauma symptoms; it is aimed at survivors of abuse, loss, and other distressing experiences and can support recovery and coping.

Existential Therapy invites reflection on meaning, values, freedom, and responsibility, helping clients facing emptiness, major life changes, grief, or questions about purpose to clarify what matters and make intentional choices.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process - Fiona works collaboratively with each person to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences and adapts the work as those needs evolve. This collaborative process helps ensure therapy feels relevant and workable for the individual.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - so people can access support from home, during breaks, or around other commitments. For many, this range of options makes it easier to maintain continuity of care and to try different formats until the best fit is found.