About Tracie
Tracie McFerran greets people with a calm, practical approach to common struggles. She helps with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and depression. She also supports people facing parenting challenges, relationship strains, grief and major life changes.
Tracie works from an integrated perspective that draws on several ways of working. She listens first and lets each person lead the pace. Then she offers practical steps and gentle challenges to help change unhelpful thoughts and patterns.
How Tracie works
Her practice includes support for people affected by trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, anger and career concerns. She also has experience with ADHD, autism and family of origin problems. Tracie pays attention to each person’s strengths and to what gets in the way of feeling better.
Sessions combine talking, problem-solving and mindfulness exercises when useful. The focus can be short-term goals or deeper exploration of past experiences. Tracie helps people build small, manageable changes that fit their day-to-day life.
She holds BACP, which identifies her as a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Tracie has six years of experience working with adults across a wide range of issues. She practices in the United Kingdom and conducts sessions in English.
Starting is straightforward: complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions to suit your needs. Tracie aims to make the first steps as clear and manageable as possible.
Tracie lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Tracie works with
The areas below are the ones Tracie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of the work. The counsellor listens without judgement and helps people find their own solutions and build on their strengths. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours with practical exercises. It can help with anxiety, low mood and stress by teaching coping skills and new ways of thinking.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The counsellor will talk through goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try. This is a collaborative process and plans can be adjusted as needs change or new issues arise.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls work well for deeper conversations that benefit from face-to-face contact. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit into a short break. Text and chat formats allow brief check-ins, ongoing reflection, and flexible contact between sessions so work can continue in small steps.
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