About Abigail
Abigail Goodwin helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression and trouble sleeping. She supports people facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, anger and problems with intimacy. She also works with issues around eating, ADHD, coping with life changes and compassion fatigue.
Abigail is named up front to make it clear who will be guiding the work. Abigail practises as an integrated counsellor and draws on several approaches to suit each person.
How Abigail works
She uses plain language in sessions and aims for practical steps alongside emotional understanding. Conversations are shaped to the person rather than forcing one method on everyone. She trained and holds membership with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP.
Abigail has worked in the field for 11 years and brings that experience when planning therapy. Her background includes helping people through grief, family problems, chronic illness and issues such as abandonment and attachment difficulties. Sessions focus on what people want to change now and what stands in the way.
Abigail blends evidence-informed techniques like cognitive behavioural work with emotion-focused and acceptance-based ideas. She also uses skills from dialectical methods when emotion regulation or intense feelings are involved. People can expect a respectful and compassionate stance, with practical tools to try between sessions.
Abigail will help set goals and check progress so the work stays relevant to day-to-day life.
Abigail lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Abigail's approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It aims to clarify personal values and take small, meaningful steps towards a life that matters to the person. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns formed in close relationships and how they affect current connections; it helps people understand their emotional responses and try new, safer ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Abigail will talk through goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then suggest methods to try. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress and needs become clearer.
Online therapy with Abigail can be offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is useful when people want face-to-face conversation, phone calls suit those with limited bandwidth or who prefer no camera, and messaging or live chat can fit quick check-ins or shorter bursts of support. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, childcare and daily life while still working through the same therapeutic material as in-person sessions.
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