About Anne
Anne Craven is a counsellor with 12 years' experience helping people who are dealing with distressing life events. She draws on a humane, person-focused way of working and practical problem-solving tools. Anne works with adults who face anxiety, depression, trauma and challenges such as addiction and relationship difficulties.
Her practice combines client-centred listening with trauma-focused methods and attachment-based thinking. That means sessions begin by understanding a person's story and what matters most to them.
How Anne works
From there Anne uses clear, goal-led steps to reduce immediate distress and to look at longer-term patterns formed in relationships and early life. She has particular experience supporting people who have lived with childhood trauma and those who developed difficulties later in life. Anne also helps with mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, self-esteem issues and coping after separation or bereavement.
Her background includes working with people facing addiction and problems with sleep, eating or anger. Sessions are aimed at practical change as well as deeper reflection. Anne uses techniques adapted from Jungian ideas and internal systems work when helpful, alongside focused plans for coping and relapse prevention.
The balance between insight and action is shaped to each person's needs. Anne is registered with NCPS, the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society. She practices from the United Kingdom and holds sessions in English.
To begin, a simple matching questionnaire is used so people can book according to the therapist's schedule.
Anne lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Anne works with
The areas below are the ones Anne selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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 problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| 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
Therapy approaches for online work and practical change
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand why they react in certain ways and supports building healthier ways of relating to others and to themselves. Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of sessions, using careful listening and empathy so people feel heard and can find their own solutions. Trauma-Focused Therapy looks directly at past harm and teaches skills to reduce distressing symptoms and manage triggers in daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Anne will discuss goals and preferences and use that conversation to decide whether attachment ideas, client-centred support or trauma-focused techniques are most helpful. The plan can change as progress is made and new needs arise, and choices are agreed collaboratively.
Online therapy offers practical benefits. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and reading body language. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break from work. Live chat and text messaging allow short check-ins and flexible support between sessions. These options make it easier to access therapy around busy lives while keeping the focus on what helps the person move forward.
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