About Ann
Ann Patmore is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 12 years of professional experience. She offers calm, practical support for people coping with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and life changes. Ann pays attention to how concentration and motivation affect daily life and learning to manage those problems is central to her work.
She has particular experience with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, including adults who receive a late diagnosis.
How Ann works
Ann helps people who struggle with focus, memory and the frustration that can follow from those difficulties. She also supports people facing addiction, trauma and anger, and those dealing with relationship and career pressures. Sessions are shaped around each person's situation.
Ann listens, then works with clients to set clear, achievable goals. Conversations are practical and grounded, with tools to try between meetings so progress continues outside sessions. Ann also addresses family and parenting concerns from an individual perspective, helping parents manage stress, set boundaries and cope with family conflict.
She offers sensitive help around adoption, attachment and issues linked to foster care. She treats matters such as guilt, shame, abandonment, codependency and isolation with compassion. Ann is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP, and draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide her practice.
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
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Ann uses practical approaches in online therapy
Ann draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear tasks and learning new skills. For attention difficulties she emphasises structured strategies to improve focus and organisation, such as breaking tasks into small steps and building routines that reduce overwhelm. These methods help with concentration, memory and day-to-day motivation.For anxiety and stress she applies approaches that combine short grounding or breathing practices with behavioural steps to face difficult situations gradually. These techniques aim to reduce worry by practising manageable changes and tracking progress over time.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Ann will work with each person to identify goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. She adapts the plan as things change and checks in regularly to make sure the work is helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video suits longer conversations and an interactive dialogue, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in and messaging lets people reflect between meetings. These options offer flexibility so people can keep therapy going around work, family and daily routines.
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