About Ann
Ann Foster is a psychotherapeutic counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She has nine years of professional experience and works in English. Ann focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression and trauma, as well as relationship and intimacy-related issues.
Her practice is person-focused and client-centred. Sessions are led by the person who comes for help, with goals shaped together. Ann emphasises respect, empathy and compassion in sessions and keeps a person's needs at the forefront.
How Ann works
Ann draws on approaches that help people tell and reframe their stories, address painful experiences, and explore inner parts of themselves. She can talk through issues such as grief, eating concerns, bipolar mood difficulties, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people managing life changes, career stress, and problems with self-esteem.
People may bring concerns linked to family life, caregiving stress, chronic illness, body image, or past abuse. Ann also works with topics like abandonment, attachment patterns, communication problems and commitment worries. Together she helps develop a plan that fits each person's situation.
Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. The first steps are simple: use the Start Therapy button, fill a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that suits you.
Ann lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Ann works with
The areas below are the ones Ann 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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Ann's approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of the work. The counsellor listens carefully and follows the person's priorities to help them make sense of feelings and choices. This approach is useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes.Narrative Therapy focuses on the stories people tell about themselves. Together the counsellor and person separate problems from identity and look for alternative, more helpful meanings. This can help with issues such as grief, body image concerns and relationship patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the journey. Ann will work collaboratively to decide which methods best match a person's goals and preferences. She adapts plans as conversations unfold, so the work stays relevant and practical.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit a short break at work, and messaging suits brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and different daily routines.
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