About Oliver
Oliver Tatchell offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or low mood. He explains things simply and helps clients find small steps they can take. He aims to make sessions feel practical and manageable for someone juggling daily pressures.
He draws on four years of professional experience in the United Kingdom and holds BACP and NCPS credentials. Oliver focuses on issues such as grief, self-esteem, motivation and depression, plus a broad range of concerns including addictions, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and ADHD.
How Oliver works
He also gives attention to attachment, body image and caregiver stress. Sessions are intended to be a space where thoughts and feelings can be spoken about without judgment. Oliver uses a client-centred way of working that follows the person’s lead, combined with cognitive behavioural techniques to address unhelpful thinking patterns.
He also incorporates mindfulness and trauma-focused ideas when they suit the work. Practical steps and small goals are a common part of his approach. That can mean trying short exercises between sessions, practising new ways of thinking, or building routines to help with sleep and daily stress.
The emphasis is on what the client wants to change and how to get there. People usually start by explaining what feels hardest right now. Oliver will help make a clear plan and discuss realistic next steps.
His style aims to be direct but supportive, so clients leave each session with something to try before the next meeting.
Oliver lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Oliver works with
The areas below are the ones Oliver selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | BACP, NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Oliver’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on following the person’s lead. The counsellor listens without judgement and helps people clarify what matters most to them. This approach is useful for building trust and deciding practical goals.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses short experiments and exercises to test unhelpful thinking and build new habits. CBT often helps with anxiety, low mood, sleep and coping with stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Oliver will discuss different ways of working and agree a plan with the client based on needs, goals and personal preference. That collaborative process helps decide whether to focus more on short-term skills, exploration of experience, or trauma-focused techniques.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit around busy days and need lower bandwidth, while live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to keep therapy going around work, family commitments and travel.
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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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