About Sian
Sian Llewellyn is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship concerns. She supports people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, eating and body image issues, and addiction-related struggles. Sian also offers help around parenting strain, intimacy worries, anger, bipolar-related challenges and ADHD-related concerns.
Sian works in a warm, person-centred way. She aims to create a space that feels non-judgemental and supportive.
How Sian works
Sessions focus on what matters to the individual and move at a pace the person finds manageable. Over ten years of practice have given her broad experience with attachment difficulties, abandonment and adoption questions, blended family dynamics and carer stress. She has worked with issues connected to chronic illness, aging, cancer and sexual diversity including BDSM and kink concerns.
Her approach draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based ideas, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, client-centred practice and mindfulness. Sian uses these methods to help people notice their thoughts and feelings, clarify values, and change patterns that get in the way of living well. Sian holds BACP registration, which is listed here as BACP.
She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. Practical session formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. To begin, people select the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire.
Scheduling is then arranged to suit both the client and the therapist.
Sian lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Sian works with
The areas below are the ones Sian selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Sian's approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and choose actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, depression, stress and coping with life changes by focusing on what matters rather than getting stuck in avoidance.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections shape current relationship patterns and emotional responses. This approach can be helpful for intimacy concerns, attachment issues, abandonment and relationship difficulties by exploring patterns and building new ways of relating.
Sian sees finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will work with each person to decide which methods suit their goals and preferences, and may combine approaches as needs change over time.
Online sessions offer flexibility and practical convenience. Video calls let participants read facial expression and tone, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and health demands while keeping sessions consistent.
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