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Beverly James, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 3 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseSelf esteemDepression
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Beverly James offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or big life changes. She aims to make the first step easier by listening without judgement and helping clients find practical ways forward. Beverly introduces simple tools that can be used between sessions to improve day-to-day coping.
She uses a mix of approaches to suit each person. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helps spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on values and taking small steps even when feelings are difficult. Emotionally-Focused and Attachment-Based ideas guide work around relationship patterns and deep emotional responses. Beverly describes her practice as warm and direct.
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with space to talk through painful events and current struggles. She pays attention to what matters most to each person and adjusts the pace accordingly. Her background includes three years of professional experience and membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, abbreviated as BACP.
That registration is noted as her professional credential. Sessions are offered in English and are available to people in the United Kingdom and internationally. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
The therapy subscription can be cancelled at any time. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and then schedules sessions according to therapist availability. Beverly aims to create a clear, manageable path toward change rather than overwhelming or technical processes.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while moving toward the things that matter to them. It teaches simple practices to build small, value-driven actions even when emotions are strong.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with practical experiments. This approach is useful for anxiety, low mood and day-to-day coping strategies.
Emotionally-Focused and Attachment-Based ideas look at how emotional responses and relationship patterns shape problems. These approaches help people understand why certain reactions occur and how to shift them to feel more connected and steady.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Beverly will discuss goals, preferences and what feels useful, and then adapt methods together with the client. That collaborative process aims to match techniques to real life needs rather than sticking to one fixed model.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat lets people check in during a break, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and day-to-day demands while using the chosen approaches in practical ways.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's 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
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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