About Abigail
Abigail Cruse is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She offers a calm, non-judgemental approach for people dealing with anxiety, stress, loss, addictions and trauma. Abigail aims to make early steps feel manageable and clear, so people can begin to feel steadier day to day.
She blends reflective talking with embodied awareness to help people notice how feelings show up in the body. Her work draws on existential ideas about meaning, Jungian thinking about inner parts and symbols, and mindfulness practices to slow things down.
How Abigail works
This helps when life feels confusing or overwhelming and when emotion keeps repeating in the same patterns. Abigail pays attention to relationships and attachment problems, including abandonment, codependency and communication difficulties. She also supports people facing grief, fertility and separation, and those coping with workplace strain or compassion fatigue.
Sessions include practical steps alongside chance to think about values and future choices. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She listens first, then works with each person to agree useful goals and small experiments to try between sessions.
Over time the aim is clearer decision making and less reactivity in stressful moments. Abigail has four years of professional experience and holds BACP registration. She works with people from different backgrounds and cultures and offers appointments online by several formats to fit a range of needs.
Abigail lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Abigail works with
The areas below are the ones Abigail selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Practical therapeutic approaches for online work
Abigail often uses existential and mindfulness approaches alongside somatic awareness to support online therapy. Existential Therapy helps people address questions about meaning, choice and purpose, which can be useful during major life changes or feelings of emptiness. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention techniques to reduce rumination and manage anxiety. Somatic Therapy focuses on bodily sensations and how stress shows up physically, helping people notice and shift tension or dissociation.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Abigail will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms and preferences, then propose methods to try. She treats the process as collaborative and adapts techniques over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and messaging or live chat suit people who prefer written communication or need support between calls. These options help fit therapy around work, family and travel.
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