About Andrew
Andrew Merz is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people cope with tough periods. He holds a BACP credential and brings five years of professional experience to his work. Andrew aims to meet people where they are and treat everyone with respect and compassion.
He often blends cognitive behavioural tools with acceptance and commitment ideas to help people manage symptoms of anxiety and depression.
How Andrew works
Sessions are conversational and focused on small, doable steps. Andrew adapts the pace and plan to each person's needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all method. People bring many kinds of concerns to him, from stress, grief and low self-esteem to relationship strain, addiction and challenges around identity.
He also supports those facing life changes, career uncertainty, sleep or eating issues, and the stresses that come from caregiving or chronic illness. Andrew uses attachment-informed work to look at how early relationships shape present patterns. He can teach emotion regulation skills drawn from dialectical behaviour therapy for intense feelings and crisis moments.
The practical focus is on building strategies that fit everyday life. Sessions are available by video, phone, live chat or text messaging so people can choose what feels most manageable. He asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling, so the first session can focus on goals and next steps.
Andrew lists 21 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
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 these approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on identifying what matters to you and taking small actions in line with those values, which can help with anxiety, depression and life changes.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It teaches practical steps to challenge unhelpful thinking and build new habits, which is useful for stress, panic, low mood and sleep or eating issues.
Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current patterns of relating and emotion. This can help people understand repeated difficulties in relationships and improve how they connect and regulate strong feelings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences and what feels helpful, and then choose or combine methods together. That collaborative process means plans can change as needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging to give flexibility. Video works well for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone can be easier when less bandwidth is available, live chat suits short check-ins, and messaging supports people who prefer writing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving or mobility constraints, and help therapists maintain a steady weekly rhythm of support.
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