Fiona Waddle , BACP

Fiona Waddle is a psychotherapeutic counsellor who works from an integrative, person-centered base, bringing together a range of therapeutic resources to support people through difficult life experiences. With 7 years of clinical experience, she has worked in hospice settings, a wellbeing clinic, and private practice, and also delivers therapeutic and psychoeducational groupwork with a national UK charity supporting people who have experienced domestic abuse.

Fiona specialises in relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges, and coping with major life changes. Her broader focus includes issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, body image concerns, caregiver stress, codependency, communication and control issues, separation and divorce, eating and food-related problems, feelings of emptiness, family conflict, forgiveness, and guilt and shame. She draws on trauma-informed methods alongside mindfulness, cognitive-behavioural techniques, creative arts, and work that involves the outdoor environment.

Fiona is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), the professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists in the UK, and she engages in regular supervision and ongoing professional development. Her approach emphasises compassionate listening, curiosity, and collaboration to help people make sense of confusing or overwhelming thoughts and feelings and build greater resilience and emotional regulation.

Outside of her clinical work she trained in fine art and began her therapeutic career working as a participatory artist in community, education, and health settings. She enjoys spending time with family and friends and walking in nature with her adopted rescue greyhound. She offers therapy by video, telephone, and text-based sessions.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Fiona combines client-centered work and trauma-informed methods with mindfulness practice to create a compassionate, practical way of working. Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own experience and aims to create a respectful, non-directive space where feelings and thoughts can be explored - this approach helps with relationship difficulties, self-worth, and life transitions. Mindfulness therapy teaches gentle awareness of present-moment experience and can reduce reactivity to difficult emotions while supporting stress management and improved emotional regulation. Trauma-focused therapy attends directly to the impact of traumatic experiences, using careful, paced methods to help people process difficult memories and reduce their ongoing effect on daily life.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Fiona works collaboratively with each person to identify goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, tailoring her methods to fit the individual rather than applying a one-size-fits-all model.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call, over the phone, via live chat, or through text-based messaging - which makes it easier to fit support around work, family, and mobility needs. These formats allow licensed professionals to provide consistent, accessible care and make it possible to maintain continuity between sessions while adapting to each person's schedule and comfort with different communication styles.