About Anna
Anna Richardson is a counsellor and a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She has five years of clinical experience and holds a Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling. Anna speaks English and Russian and practises from the United Kingdom.
She offers a calm, non-judgemental space for people to talk about stress, anxiety and low mood. Sessions look at how past experiences and repeated patterns shape feelings and behaviour.
How Anna works
Anna pays attention to relationships and attachment, and how these affect day-to-day life. Her approach blends psychodynamic ideas with attachment-based work. That means she helps people notice unconscious patterns and also explores how connections with others influence well-being.
This combination is used with concerns such as trauma and abuse, grief, addictive behaviours and sexuality-related matters. Anna also supports people facing life changes like divorce, immigration issues, midlife shifts and career questions. She works with issues linked to parenting, caregiver stress, control and communication problems.
Other focal areas include abandonment, guilt and shame, hoarding and isolation. Her background includes volunteering with local mental health charities and clinical work in personal sector care homes with people who have post-traumatic stress disorder. Anna aims to help people build clearer understanding and practical ways to manage difficult feelings and improve relationships.
Anna lists 2 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
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English, Russian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How attachment and psychodynamic work translate online
Anna offers attachment-based work that looks at how current relationships and early bonds shape feelings and behaviour; this helps with issues like intimacy, attachment difficulties and caregiver stress. Psychodynamic therapy focuses on uncovering repeating patterns and unconscious influences, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, trauma and longstanding relationship problems.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Anna will work collaboratively to find which way of working fits a person’s goals and preferences, and she will adjust methods as therapy progresses to meet changing needs.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging, offering flexibility for different lifestyles. Video is useful for a near face-to-face experience, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging helps people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and travel commitments while keeping focus on therapeutic goals.
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