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Aaron Liam Firth, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 7 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with LGBTRelationship issuesFamily conflictsGriefSelf esteem
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Aaron Liam Firth offers calm, practical support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression and relationship struggles. He writes plainly and listens closely. He helps people untangle painful feelings and find clearer ways to cope day to day.
He draws on seven years of experience and holds BACP accreditation, which means he is recognised by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Sessions focus on what matters most to the client, whether that is grief, addictive behaviours, confidence or sexual identity concerns.
Background and approach
His approach combines client-centred listening with structured tools from cognitive behavioural work. That mix aims to both make clients feel heard and give them simple skills to change unhelpful patterns. He also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live more in line with what they value.
Aaron pays attention to attachment and intimacy issues, and he works with concerns such as abandonment, blended family questions, body image and communication problems. He also supports those coping with career stress, compassion fatigue, and the consequences of trauma or abuse. Practical change is a goal alongside emotional understanding.
Sessions might involve exploring feelings, reframing thoughts, or trying new behaviours between meetings. He accepts international clients and runs appointments in English, using a range of online formats to match each person’s needs.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Aaron commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice painful thoughts and feelings without being led by them. ACT focuses on values and small steps so people can act in ways that matter despite difficult emotions. He also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early connection patterns shape current relationships. This can help with trust, intimacy and communication problems by making patterns easier to recognise and change. Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together they decide whether to focus more on skills practice, emotional exploration, or a mix of both. Online sessions offer practical benefits. Video calls let people read non-verbal cues and work face to face when distance is a factor. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, written reflections or when a flexible schedule is needed, allowing therapy to fit around work or family commitments.What kinds of problems can be brought to sessions?
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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