About Ben
Ben Powell draws on 15 years of clinical experience to help people work through difficult moments. He introduces himself simply and listens first. He aims to help people feel steadier, more able to make choices, and clearer about what they want next.
Ben sees stress, anxiety, depression and low self-esteem as common problems that respond to practical steps alongside honest conversation. He also supports people facing grief, addiction, relationship and intimacy concerns, and challenges around parenting, career and life changes.
How Ben works
He works with issues linked to sexual culture, body image and complex family patterns. Ben uses a mix of talking approaches to suit each person. He prioritises what a person brings rather than forcing a single method.
Sessions often include goal-setting, gentle exploration of life stories, and tools to reduce unhelpful thinking and behaviour. People can expect open communication between sessions. Ben keeps a message channel available for questions and sends a weekly note to help maintain focus on agreed goals.
That ongoing contact is meant to support progress between meetings. Ben works in English and offers online sessions for people in the United Kingdom and internationally. He is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP.
The initial steps are straightforward: complete a short matching questionnaire, then schedule sessions that suit the person.
Ben lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Ben works with
The areas below are the ones Ben selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Ben's approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and supporting the person's own goals. The counsellor follows what matters to the person, helping them make sense of their experience and decide what to try next. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, mixes short practical exercises with talking to identify patterns of thought and behaviour that cause distress and then test new ways of responding. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce rumination and help people feel calmer in daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ben will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences, and together they will choose which methods to use. That collaborative process means plans can change as the person learns what helps them most.
Online sessions via video calls let people keep non-verbal connection while meeting from different locations. Phone sessions can be a low-bandwidth option or a quicker way to fit a check-in into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter updates, ongoing questions, and people who prefer typing to speaking. These formats make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy week.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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