Aisling Evershed
Gentle, person-centred counselling for everyday struggles
About Aisling
Aisling Evershed offers a warm, person-centred approach to counselling. She places kindness and empathy at the heart of sessions. Aisling aims to build a trusting relationship so people can talk honestly about what worries them.
She helps people feel heard and supported as they take the first steps towards change. Aisling works with common concerns such as stress, anxiety and depression. She also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, addiction, relationship or intimacy issues, grief and career worries.
Background and approach
Additional areas she focuses on include ADHD, attachment and abandonment issues, chronic health challenges, and body image concerns. Her practice draws on client-centred ways of working that focus on the person rather than labels. She also uses mindfulness to help ground people in the present moment and existential ideas to look at meaning and life choices.
Internal Family Systems offers a way to understand conflicting inner parts and build self-compassion. With five years' experience and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP - Aisling combines practical tools with a steady, accepting presence. Sessions are intended to be collaborative, with the person steering what they want to talk about and Aisling offering gentle guidance.
Aisling recognises that beginning therapy can feel daunting. She invites people to take a small step - complete the short form and try a session - and then decide what feels most helpful going forward.
What Aisling works with
How Aisling works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches for online counselling
Aisling commonly combines client-centred work with mindfulness and Internal Family Systems. Client-centred therapy focuses on understanding the person without judgement and following their lead in sessions. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, empathetic space to talk and make sense of feelings.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce rumination and manage stress and anxiety. Internal Family Systems looks at different parts of a person - for example a protective part or a vulnerable part - and helps those parts relate to each other more kindly. Both approaches can be useful for trauma, self-esteem and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Aisling will discuss options with the person and make choices together based on needs, goals and preferences. She treats the selection of methods as collaborative and flexible, adapting as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging can suit quick check-ins or those who prefer writing. These options increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep continuity of care when schedules change.
| 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
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
