About Brigitte
Brigitte Stephenson uses an integrative approach that draws on attachment work, client-centred conversations and practical cognitive tools. She aims to make the room feel calm and straightforward so people can talk about what matters. Brigitte is introduced here as a BACP counsellor with five years of practice in the United Kingdom.
Her sessions focus on everyday problems as well as deeper hurts. She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression and grief.
How Brigitte works
She also helps with trauma and abuse, addictions, anger and self-esteem issues. Brigitte works with relationship and family concerns from an individual perspective. She offers help around parenting challenges, blended family issues, adoption and foster care questions, and fatherhood issues.
Other areas she addresses include body image, eating concerns, codependency and attachment issues. The approach is collaborative and practical. Conversations are client-centred - Brigitte listens first and follows what the person needs.
Cognitive behavioural techniques are used to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try small changes in daily life. Sessions may also draw on emotionally-focused and attachment-based ideas to understand how early relationships shape feelings now. Motivational interviewing is used when people want to make a change but feel stuck.
Brigitte aims to offer clear steps and gentle challenge, so people can move forward at a pace that suits them.
Brigitte lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Brigitte works with
The areas below are the ones Brigitte selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult 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 Brigitte’s approaches work in online counselling
Attachment-based work pays attention to how earlier bonds shape current feelings and reactions. Online sessions can help people notice patterns in relationships and practise different ways of connecting. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening with empathy and following the person’s own pace; it helps when someone needs space to make sense of things without pressure.Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at thoughts, feelings and actions together. In an online setting this often means identifying unhelpful thinking and trying small behavioural experiments between sessions to see what changes. These approaches suit issues such as anxiety, depression, grief and relationship difficulties.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels useful. Together they will try methods and adapt them if needed, making decisions collaboratively rather than imposing a fixed plan.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and longer sessions, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, brief reflections or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel.
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