Abigail Borquaye
Compassionate counsellor for relationship and trauma concerns
About Abigail
Abigail Borquaye helps people with relationship strains, family conflict, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, depression, anxiety, stress, addiction and grief. She also supports those facing parenting pressures, intimacy concerns, anger, career crossroads and coping with life changes. Abigail uses a listening-led style that puts the person’s experience first.
She offers sessions in English and Twi and practices in the United Kingdom. Abigail adopts an integrative approach built around client-centred work. That means conversations focus on what matters to each person and move at a pace they find manageable.
Background and approach
She draws on cognitive behavioural ideas and insight-oriented methods when they suit the issue at hand. Her background includes nearly two decades of experience working with people affected by relationship breakdown, domestic violence, bereavement and childhood abuse. She has a history of supporting women and people with caregiving responsibilities and has run drop-in sessions and GP-referred work in west London.
In sessions Abigail aims to create a safe, non-judgemental space for talking through difficult feelings. Practical steps and emotional processing are combined, so clients leave with clearer next steps as well as being heard. She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
People often come for help with attachment issues, codependency, blended family challenges, abandonment fears and communication problems. Abigail also works with concerns such as bipolar symptoms, substance misuse, caregiver stress and cancer-related distress. Her practice is conversational, steady and focused on what will help each person move forward.
What Abigail works with
How Abigail works
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Sessions & fees
How Abigail's approaches work online
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships. It helps people understand how early bonds affect trust, closeness and worry in adult relationships and can guide changes in how someone connects with others.Client-centred therapy puts the person's experience at the heart of sessions. The therapist listens closely, reflects what they hear and helps clients find their own answers, which is useful for building self-esteem and handling life transitions.
Cognitive behavioural ideas are often used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of reacting. That approach can help with anxiety, low mood, stress and practical problem-solving.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs and adapt methods as work progresses. Clients have input about what feels most useful and pacing is agreed together.
Online therapy gives flexible ways to meet. Video calls are close to face-to-face conversation and suit longer sessions, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a work break, and live chat or text messaging can be useful for shorter check-ins or ongoing support. These options make it easier to access consistent help around work, caring duties or travel.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Twi
