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Patricia Foster, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 20 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyAddictionsGriefSelf esteemDepression
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Patricia Foster works from a person-centred approach that puts the client’s experience first. She combines practical techniques with a warm, accepting style to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction and low self-esteem. Patricia’s manner is straightforward and calm, which can help someone who feels overwhelmed begin to make small changes.
Patricia has worked in counselling for 20 years and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Background and approach
She has supported people dealing with depression, trauma and abuse, anger, bipolar symptoms and intimacy-related worries. She also helps people facing parenting pressures, relationship strain, and life transitions. Her practice draws on several approaches, including Attachment-Based Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy.
Sessions are tailored so practical tools meet each person’s goals. Patricia uses simple exercises, guided reflection and problem-solving to reduce distress and build skills. People consult her about a wide range of areas beyond the main concerns, such as abandonment issues, body image, codependency, communication problems and caregiver stress.
She also works with neurodiversity topics like autism and Asperger syndrome and with personality-related difficulties. Patricia offers therapy in English and accepts international clients. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging.
New clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session according to the setup process.
How therapeutic approaches translate online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on understanding how early relationships affect current feelings and closeness. Online work using this approach helps people notice patterns in relationships and practise new ways of connecting and responding.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together. In remote sessions this becomes a practical process of spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioural experiments between meetings to reduce anxiety or low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences and how you respond to different ways of working. Together you decide what to try and adjust the plan as needed, so the method fits the issue and the person.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps, phone work can suit shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth, and text-based messaging or live chat can fit around busy days or offer regular brief support. These options make it easier to keep continuity and build skills regardless of location.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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