About Teresa
Teresa Readhead is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) with seven years of practice in the United Kingdom. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction issues, grief and loss, and difficulties around relationships and self-esteem. Teresa aims to make the first step into therapy easier and less daunting for anyone who feels stuck.
She builds a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk openly about painful thoughts and feelings.
How Teresa works
Sessions aim to be practical and down-to-earth, with time spent listening and helping people find clearer ways forward. Teresa uses simple, evidence-informed methods to address day-to-day struggles and bigger life changes. Her work draws on attachment-based ideas to understand relationship patterns and on client-centred listening to follow what matters most to the person in front of her.
Teresa also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help change unhelpful thinking and narrative approaches to reframe difficult stories people tell about themselves. People come to Teresa for support with grief, parenting stresses, managing anger, or coping with long-term health challenges. She also helps those dealing with eating or sleeping problems, career-related stress, and compassion fatigue.
Teresa takes a collaborative approach and sets goals together with each person. Online and remote sessions are part of her practice, offering flexible options such as video calls and phone meetings. Teresa welcomes conversations in English and works with people from different places, helping them explore small steps that lead to meaningful change.
Teresa lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Teresa works with
The areas below are the ones Teresa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- 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
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Teresa's approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns influence how people relate now and can help with trust, closeness and repeated arguments. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the person, helping them feel heard and make their own choices. Cognitive behavioural work identifies unhelpful thoughts and tests them with practical exercises to reduce anxiety and change behaviour.Finding the right approach is part of the process and Teresa treats it as a joint task. She will discuss goals and preferences, try techniques together, and adjust the plan if something does not fit. The aim is to match the method to the person's needs rather than following a fixed formula.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation while phone sessions can be a good option when less bandwidth is available. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, written reflection, or times when clients prefer not to be on camera. These options give flexibility for different routines and practical circumstances, helping people keep therapy going when life is busy.
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