About Shona
Shona Moncrieff supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and addiction. She also helps with grief, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, career questions and mood difficulties such as depression and bipolar. Shona’s approach includes practical skills for coping and making change, alongside space to talk and be heard.
She works in English from the United Kingdom and holds BACP accreditation. Shona draws on a mix of therapy styles rather than one single method.
How Shona works
She commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and attachment-based ideas to help people notice their patterns and try new ways of responding. Sessions can include breathing and grounding exercises, practical behaviour plans, and gentle reflection on past hurts. Her background includes three years of professional experience, much of it supporting people affected by trauma and difficult childhood experiences.
That work influences how she pays attention to safety, pacing and building trust in sessions. She aims to be calm and steady while helping clients tackle painful memories and current struggles. Shona sees issues around identity and relationships, including LGBT concerns, abandonment and attachment wounds.
She also supports people coping with caregiving stress, health challenges such as cancer, and life changes that feel overwhelming. Clients bring practical goals or a wish to understand themselves better. Therapy is offered online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Sessions are arranged through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule appointments according to therapist availability.
Shona lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Shona works with
The areas below are the ones Shona selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- 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
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without being ruled by them. It focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking practical steps towards those values, which can help with anxiety, low mood and life transitions.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It aims to strengthen emotional connection to yourself and others, and can be useful for intimacy issues, abandonment wounds and relationship struggles.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and adjust methods together. That means trying practical exercises, talking through memories, or focusing on skills depending on what fits best.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to suit different needs. Video calls mimic face-to-face sessions and allow visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around daily life while still using established therapeutic techniques.
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