About Anna
Anna Critsinelis is a counsellor with ten years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety and low self-esteem. She works with individuals facing bipolar difficulties, ADHD, and major life changes. Anna speaks English and Portuguese and practises from the United Kingdom.
Her approach is practical and straightforward. Sessions centre on what matters to the person in front of her. She listens without judgement and helps people name what is happening, so they can make clearer choices about next steps.
How Anna works
Meetings aim to be collaborative and goal-focused rather than prescriptive. Anna draws on several evidence-informed methods to shape sessions. She uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviours.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and keep moving toward what matters to them. She also uses client-centred ways of working to follow the person’s pace and Solution-Focused techniques to identify small, practical changes. Together these approaches help with everyday issues like communication problems, feelings of emptiness, and managing impulses.
Anna is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). That registration is recorded exactly as supplied. She welcomes people from different countries and offers sessions in more than one language.
Anna lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Anna works with
The areas below are the ones Anna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English, Portuguese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How Anna’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions so life can move forward even when feelings are hard. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks closely at thoughts, feelings and behaviours and helps people try practical changes to break unhelpful cycles.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Anna will talk through what feels most relevant and try methods that match your goals and preferences. That decision is collaborative and can change as you learn what helps most.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let you have a face-to-face conversation from another location. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier for shorter check-ins. Live chat or text-based messaging can suit people who prefer writing or need more frequent brief contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, appointments and family commitments while keeping the same therapeutic focus.
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