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Tracey Bonelle, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 6 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyGriefSelf esteemDepressionCoping with life changes
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Tracey Bonelle offers calm, practical counselling for people feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or uncertain about next steps. She greets each person with warmth and without judgement, and helps them make sense of what they are feeling in a clear, down-to-earth way. Tracey focuses on building a steady, trusting relationship so people feel able to talk honestly about what’s going on for them.
She listens closely to life experience, not labels, and works at a pace that suits each person.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to spot unhelpful patterns, process difficult emotions, and develop simple coping strategies for day-to-day life. Tracey’s style is collaborative - she and the person set goals together and adjust the work as needs change. Tracey draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape present feelings.
She also uses client-centred ways of working to keep the person’s views and choices central. Where helpful, she brings in skills from dialectical behaviour therapy and mindfulness to manage strong emotions and reduce stress.
With six years of experience and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), Tracey has helped people face issues such as anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship and family concerns, and challenges linked to neurodiversity. She also supports people dealing with addiction, eating or sleeping problems, low self-esteem, and career strain.
Sessions are available in English and can be arranged for people in the United Kingdom or internationally. Work can include short-term practical support or longer conversations to explore deeper patterns and meaning in life.
How Tracey’s approaches work online
Tracey uses attachment-based ways of working to look at how past relationships shape current feelings and reactions. This approach helps people understand patterns in connection and trust and is useful for relationship, abandonment, and attachment-related worries. Client-centred therapy keeps the person’s experience at the centre of the work, offering a respectful, empathetic space where the person leads what they want to talk about.She also draws on dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) skills and mindfulness to help manage intense emotions and reduce overwhelm. DBT-style techniques offer concrete skills for calming, tolerating distress, and improving communication, while mindfulness builds awareness of thoughts and bodily sensations.
Finding the right approach is a shared task. Tracey discusses options with each person and chooses methods that match their goals and preferences. She adjusts the pace and mix of techniques over time so the work stays relevant and helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counselling more flexible. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and reading non-verbal cues, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day, and live chat or messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options help people access therapy from different places and routines, making it simpler to keep continuity and make steady progress.
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Areas of focus
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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