About Anabelle
Anabelle Tidmarsh is a person-centred counsellor with four years' experience who aims to help people find their own resilience. She holds an MSc in Counselling and Psychotherapy awarded with distinction from Keele University and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She works in a grounded, respectful way.
Sessions focus on what matters to the person in front of her. She listens, reflects and helps people notice the patterns and defences that once helped but now hold them back.
How Anabelle works
Anabelle has supported people with stress, anxiety and depression. She has also worked with trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem and intimacy-related concerns. Other areas she addresses include sleeping and eating difficulties, anger, parenting strain, relationship and family issues, and adjusting to life changes.
Her approach pays attention to the body as well as the mind. She has led relaxation and yoga sessions alongside talking therapy for people who have experienced trauma, using simple breath and body-awareness practices to help manage strong feelings. Anabelle aims to build a calm, accepting space where people feel seen and heard.
She encourages clients to name goals for therapy and to steer sessions toward what they find most helpful. Outside work she enjoys time with family and walking her springer spaniel, Olly.
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What Anabelle works with
The areas below are the ones Anabelle selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
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
Person-centred approaches and online therapy options
Client-centred therapy places the person's experience at the heart of sessions. The counsellor listens without judgement, reflects what she hears and helps the person notice their own strengths and choices. This approach suits people facing anxiety, depression, relationship or identity concerns and those wanting to better understand patterns in their life.Anabelle also brings simple body-awareness work into therapy, such as relaxation and breath-based exercises. These techniques provide practical ways to manage strong feelings and can be helpful for people who have experienced trauma or who feel overwhelmed by physical symptoms of stress.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative task. The counsellor will discuss goals and preferences and adapt methods as sessions progress. Together the client and counsellor decide which exercises or ways of talking are most useful for the person's aims.
Online therapy here is offered by registered or accredited professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video suits deeper conversations and reading facial cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for short check-ins and messaging allows ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility to fit therapy around work, caring duties and daily life.
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