About Bridget
Bridget O'Toole is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She has five years of professional experience in the UK and works with people facing stress, anxiety and overwhelming life changes. She supports people dealing with work stress and burnout.
She also helps those managing neurodiversity and the everyday challenges that come with it. Sessions are shaped around each person so conversations feel comfortable and relevant.
How Bridget works
Bridget uses a client-centred way of working. That means she follows the person’s lead and focuses on what matters most to them. She combines this with emotionally-focused ideas to look at feelings and how they affect relationships and daily life.
She also draws on narrative and solution-focused approaches. Narrative work helps people make sense of difficult stories, while solution-focused techniques aim to identify small, practical steps forward. Together these approaches offer both emotional understanding and short-term tools for coping.
Bridget speaks English and works with adults in the United Kingdom. She offers video calls, telephone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used and sessions are scheduled according to the therapist's availability.
Her practice is aimed at people wanting a clear, person-led approach. Bridget aims to make the process straightforward for someone taking the first steps back into therapy.
Bridget lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Bridget works with
The areas below are the ones Bridget selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Bridget's approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person's priorities and pace. In practice this means sessions follow the client's lead and build on what feels most urgent for them, whether that's stress, relationship strain or changes at work.Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at how feelings shape interactions and internal experience. It can help people understand strong emotions and how those reactions affect daily life and relationships, which is useful for trauma, attachment issues and grief.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Bridget will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then adapt methods together. That way the therapy evolves from what the person needs, not a fixed plan.
Online therapy lets people connect in ways that suit their life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps. Telephone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging offer shorter check-ins or written reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility for different rhythms and practical needs.
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