About Belly
Belly Harding uses a blend of talking therapies to help people manage difficult feelings and make clearer choices. She brings seven years of practice to sessions and works from a person-centred stance that values honesty and practical change. Belly speaks English and French and practices across the United Kingdom.
Belly trained with a Master of Science in Psychology from Manchester Metropolitan University. She is a BACP member which is recorded as BACP.
How Belly works
She has a certificate in Humanistic Therapies and Existential Counselling and is a doctorate candidate in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy at Middlesex University. These studies shape how she listens and plans work with clients. In sessions Belly mixes Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with psychodynamic and existential ideas.
That means she helps people notice unhelpful thinking, understand past patterns, and consider questions of meaning. She aims for clear, manageable steps alongside deeper reflection. People come to Belly for many issues including stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, addictions and grief.
She also supports those facing career changes, caregiving strain, chronic illness, body image issues, and matters linked to adoption and attachment. Her manner is warm and non-judgemental. Sessions focus on what the person needs now while also exploring the background to problems.
Belly combines practical tools with space for self-discovery so people can build more satisfying day-to-day lives.
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What Belly works with
The areas below are the ones Belly selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English, French |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online change
Belly uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas in her online work. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving; it is helpful for anxiety, low mood and practical day-to-day problems. Attachment-Based approaches look at patterns from early relationships and how they affect current connections and trust, which can help with intimacy and relationship difficulties.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then try methods that fit the person. That collaborative planning helps keep sessions relevant and flexible as needs change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a fuller conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat or messaging suit quick check-ins or when writing helps to think things through. These options make it simpler to work around work, caregiving or travel commitments and to keep continuity between sessions.
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