About Andrew
Andrew Mclay is a counsellor with five years' experience who focuses on grief, loss and life changes. He holds BACP accreditation, and works with people who are carrying losses that are not always visible. His manner is warm and steady, and he aims to make talking about painful changes feel manageable.
He describes grief as more than bereavement. Clients often arrive after relationship endings, shifts in identity or confidence, or the slow erosion caused by addiction or prolonged stress.
How Andrew works
He also supports people facing changes in health, work or life plans, and those coping with the quiet sadness of big transitions. Sessions are down-to-earth and paced to the individual. He listens without pressure and helps people make sense of what they feel.
Conversations might include exploring what has been lost, how it affects daily life, and small, practical steps to regain direction. Andrew draws on trauma-focused ideas and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy alongside Client-Centred Therapy to shape his work. That means he pays attention to past hurts while helping people notice what matters now and what they might try next.
He uses these approaches to address anxiety, depression, addiction-related harm, attachment concerns and other related issues. People who come to him often want a calm, steady presence and clear, practical collaboration. He aims to help each person find ways to cope, rebuild a sense of self, and move forward at a pace that feels right.
Andrew lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Andrew works with
The areas below are the ones Andrew selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Andrew uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while focusing on what matters to them. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression, coping with loss and finding direction after change.He also draws from Trauma-Focused Therapy to address the impact of past harm. That work centres on understanding how trauma affects reactions and finding ways to reduce its hold on daily life. Client-Centred Therapy underpins his manner, offering a non-judgemental listening space where clients set the pace and priorities.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. He will discuss the options and adapt methods to suit a person’s needs, goals and preferences so the plan feels collaborative and realistic.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone can fit a break at work or use less bandwidth, and chat or text-based messaging can suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around daily life.
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