About Penny
Penny Farrelly helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and life changes. She welcomes straightforward conversations and keeps sessions warm and down to earth. Penny aims to move at each person’s pace and focuses on practical steps people can use between meetings.
Penny works using a client-centred approach that treats the person as the expert on their own life. That means she listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people find their own answers.
How Penny works
The sessions are non-judgemental and aimed at building self-understanding and confidence. She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, known as BACP. Penny has four years of professional counselling experience in the United Kingdom.
Her work has covered issues such as stress, anxiety, depression, career difficulties and motivation. Her practice also supports people dealing with grief, trauma, addiction and compassion fatigue, and she offers help around eating, sleeping and anger problems. Penny has additional focus on areas like adoption and foster care, long-term illness and ageing-related concerns.
Penny often helps people who feel isolated or stuck, including those wrestling with life purpose, midlife change or the challenges of young adulthood. She also offers coaching-style support for workplace issues and career questions. Penny aims to make therapy a straightforward, useful part of everyday life.
Penny lists one way of working on the entry:
What Penny works with
The areas below are the ones Penny selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| 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 client-centred work meets online therapy
Penny uses client-centred therapy, which focuses on listening and treating people as the experts of their own lives. In practice this means sessions involve reflective listening, gentle questioning and supporting people to find their own solutions. This approach can help with anxiety, low self-esteem, life changes and grief.The therapist will work collaboratively to find the best approach for each person. That includes discussing goals, trying different ways of working, and adjusting direction based on what feels most helpful. Deciding which approach to use is part of the work together rather than something fixed in advance.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls mimic face-to-face sessions and are useful for deeper conversations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit around work breaks. Live chat and text-based messaging make shorter check-ins or ongoing support easier to manage between calls. These options let people choose the format that fits their routine and comfort while keeping the focus on steady, helpful progress.
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