About Simone
Simone Riviere offers a relationship-focused counselling style that puts the person at the centre of therapy. She uses a mix of human-centred approaches to help people feel heard, make sense of painful feelings, and find steadier ground when life feels unpredictable. Simone is a BACP counsellor with ten years' experience working in the United Kingdom.
She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression and trauma, and those coping with grief or life changes.
How Simone works
Simone also supports people facing relationship or intimacy-related issues, parenting strains, and concerns around addiction and compulsive behaviours. Her additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, and a range of sexual and identity topics such as BDSM, kink and LGBT concerns. Simone combines client-centred listening with psychodynamic thinking and mindfulness skills.
This mix is used to slow things down, notice patterns, and try small changes in thinking or behaviour. Sessions can be short-term or open-ended depending on what someone needs. Practical worries like eating, sleeping, anger, career stress and compassion fatigue are also part of the work she offers.
She supports people navigating neurodiversity issues such as autism and Asperger syndrome, and those managing ADHD-related challenges. The approach is straightforward and paced to the individual's comfort. Simone works with video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging.
International clients may be supported. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used before scheduling sessions according to the therapist's availability.
Simone lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Simone works with
The areas below are the ones Simone selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- 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
Approaches that guide online sessions
Simone uses client-centred therapy to create a safe, respectful space where the person's own goals guide the work. This approach focuses on listening, empathy and helping people find their own solutions, which suits issues like anxiety, low mood and relationship worries.She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat in relationships and feelings. That work helps when long-standing attachment issues, family of origin concerns or repeated cycles of behaviour are affecting daily life.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Simone will discuss aims, preferences and practical needs with each person and decide together what to try first. This collaborative planning makes it easier to adjust the focus as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for a face-to-face feel, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, while live chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options help people arrange therapy around work, family and travel commitments.
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