About Annette
Annette Buswell meets people who are worn out, anxious, or facing big life changes. She offers calm, steady support and helps clients work through what feels overwhelming. Her approach is straightforward and kind, aimed at helping people find clearer footing and more calm in everyday life.
She is a BACP counsellor with seven years' experience in independent practice. Annette blends several approaches to suit each person. Sessions focus on building trust, listening carefully, and moving at a pace that feels right to the individual.
How Annette works
In practice she draws on person-centred ideas alongside solution-focused work and mindfulness. That means practical steps to handle problems now, paired with space to reflect on deeper patterns. Hypnotherapy and psychodynamic ideas are also available when they fit the client's goals.
Annette has helped people with stress, anxiety, depression and grief. She also supports those coping with relationship and family difficulties, parenting strain, career stress, addiction concerns, anger and intimacy-related issues. Additional areas of attention include chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image and bereavement related to cancer.
Sessions can be short-term or longer-term depending on need. The emphasis is on developing self-compassion, clearer choices and more manageable day-to-day coping. Annette aims to create a caring, non-judgemental space where people can explore their thoughts and begin to heal.
Annette lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Annette works with
The areas below are the ones Annette selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Online approaches that fit your life
Annette uses client-centred methods that prioritise the person's experience and built rapport. This approach focuses on listening, empathy and letting the client guide the pace, which can help with anxiety, low self-esteem and grief.She also draws on mindfulness therapy to teach simple, practical ways to reduce stress and manage unhelpful thoughts. Mindfulness exercises are short and can be practised between sessions to support day-to-day coping. Solution-focused work is used to identify small, achievable steps towards clearer goals and can help when clients need fast, practical changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Annette will collaborate with the client to decide which combination of methods best fits their needs and preferences. That collaborative process keeps the focus on what the client wants to achieve and adjusts as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different lives. Video is useful for a fuller conversational experience, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins or ongoing contact between scheduled sessions. These formats make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, caregiving or mobility challenges.
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