About Sunshine
Sunshine Goodfellow welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or uncertain about next steps. She speaks plainly and offers steady support for life changes, relationship strain, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and other common struggles. Sunshine is presented as a calm presence who helps people talk things through and find practical ways to cope.
She uses approaches that put the client at the centre of the work. Sessions focus on listening, making sense of patterns, and trying small changes that can make daily life easier.
How Sunshine works
Conversations are grounded and aimed at helping people feel more in control of their choices. Sunshine holds a BACP registration, which is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She brings 13 years of experience working with a wide range of concerns including stress, addictions, eating issues, sleep problems, and low self-esteem.
This background supports a flexible style that adapts to what each person needs. Her work also addresses relational and family-related difficulties such as communication problems, blended family stress, adoption and foster care matters, and separation or divorce. She helps people facing attachment issues, abandonment, caregiving strain and domestic violence impacts to make sense of how these experiences shape feelings and choices.
Sunshine draws on cognitive tools, attachment ideas and client-centred ways of working, plus elements from existential and Jungian thinking. The aim is to build clearer self-understanding, practical coping skills and more satisfying ways of relating to others. People can expect a collaborative, respectful approach where hope and steady effort guide progress.
If someone wants a thoughtful counsellor who balances compassion with practical steps, Sunshine offers that blend.
Sunshine lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Sunshine works with
The areas below are the ones Sunshine 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
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| 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
Sunshine draws on client-centred work, attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioural techniques in her online practice. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening without judgement and helping a person find their own answers; it is useful for building confidence and self-understanding. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people change how they relate to others and to themselves. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) offers practical tools to spot unhelpful thoughts and try out behaviour changes, which can help with anxiety, low mood and sleep difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will discuss options and tailor the mix of methods to a person’s needs, goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process where therapist and client review what helps and adjust the plan together.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging offers practical benefits. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, note-taking, or times when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to schedule therapy around work, family and travel while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
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A practical next step
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