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Sian Dyer, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 5 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyAddictionsTrauma and abuseGriefSelf esteem
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Sian Dyer uses an integrative approach that blends practical, evidence-informed methods with a warm, person-centred way of working. She aims to help people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, low mood, or relationship strain. Sian writes plainly and listens carefully so conversations stay focused on what matters now.
She is BACP registered which signals adherence to professional standards. In sessions Sian draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and make small, manageable changes.
Background and approach
She also uses attachment-based thinking to look at how early relationships shape current patterns and emotional responses. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas are used to help people live by their values even when feelings are difficult. A key focus is understanding how the nervous system reacts to threat and stress.
Sian explains fight, flight, freeze, and shutdown responses in everyday language and practises simple regulation strategies. The work includes building self-esteem, clearer boundaries, and steadier emotional regulation. Sian brings five years' experience working with a wide range of concerns such as trauma, grief, addiction, eating and sleeping difficulties, ADHD, burnout, and relationship or intimacy-related issues.
She also supports people dealing with career changes, chronic illness, caregiving strain and body image worries. Sessions are offered in English and Sian accepts international clients. People can expect a calm, collaborative pace where goals are set together and progress is reviewed regularly.
Online approaches that help regulate emotions and build connection
Sian commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate actions and helps people take steps that match their values even when emotions are strong. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current feelings and reactions and helps people develop clearer ways of relating and feeling safer within themselves.Finding the best approach is part of the work. Sian will talk with each person about their goals, history and preferences and together they will choose which methods to try. That collaborative conversation means methods can be adjusted as progress is reviewed and needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messages let people reflect between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and help fit work, travel or family routines while keeping the focus on practical strategies and emotional regulation.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- 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)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- 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
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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