About Guy
Guy Ridgway works mainly with practical, evidence-based therapies to help people manage mood and everyday difficulties. He brings five years of counselling experience and aims to make sessions straightforward and useful from the first contact. He uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thinking and behaviour.
That practical work is combined with humanistic ideas that value the person’s own goals and perspective. Together these methods help with mood problems, sleep issues, and anxiety.
How Guy works
Guy is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. He also holds a TQUK Level 3 Certificate in Understanding Autism. He speaks from both professional and lived experience of neurodiversity, including autism, ADHD and dyslexia, and brings that perspective into his work.
People contact him for worries such as stress, low mood, sleeping problems, self-esteem struggles, and bipolar-related concerns. He also helps with topics like isolation, relationship breakdown, body image, chronic illness, and life-direction questions. Sessions aim to be collaborative and practical.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled by availability. Therapy is offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging and uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
What Guy works with
The areas below are the ones Guy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Sleeping disorders
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace 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 evidence-based approaches are used online
Guy primarily works with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which helps people notice thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going and then try practical changes to see what helps. This approach can be useful for anxiety, sleep problems, low mood and many everyday stresses.He also draws on humanistic approaches such as Person-Centred ideas and Gestalt, which focus on listening, personal goals and the client’s own experience. These methods create space to talk about identity, self-worth and life direction alongside the practical CBT work.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and adapt techniques to what feels most useful. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that fits each person’s needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video suits deeper conversation and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and messaging or live chat can fit around busy days or provide ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family and daily routines.
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