Andrea Croston
Empathic counsellor with practical coping tools
About Andrea
Andrea Croston helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression and grief. She also supports those facing relationship or intimacy issues, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, career stress and neurodiverse concerns such as ADHD and autism. Andrea works with people exploring identity and LGBT matters, and with those coping with major life changes or compassion fatigue.
Andrea uses a person-centred style as a foundation.
Background and approach
She believes clients know what hurts and brings a listening, non-judgemental presence. Sessions aim to make space for people to tell their story and to set goals that feel manageable. She integrates practical approaches alongside that supportive stance.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy inform techniques to manage difficult thoughts and emotions. Attachment-based ideas guide work on close relationships and patterns that repeat. Andrea trained to Level 4 in counselling and psychotherapy, and holds registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP.
She draws on many years of volunteering in charity settings, which shaped her experience supporting people through traumatic times. Her way of working is collaborative. Andrea checks in about what helps and adapts tools so they fit each person’s life.
She continues learning professionally and personally to keep her practice current. Sessions are offered in English and are available to people in the United Kingdom and internationally. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
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Sessions & fees
Approaches suited to online therapy
Andrea uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. This approach can help with anxiety, low mood and life changes.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and intimacy. This helps when people want to understand relationship difficulties and build safer ways of relating.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Andrea collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and preferences, combining supportive listening with practical tools. Sessions begin by discussing what a person wants to achieve and which techniques feel most useful.
Online therapy gives flexibility for different lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer writing, want to reflect between messages, or need check-ins that fit around work and family commitments.
Registered or accredited professionals can adapt exercises and home practice to work well over these formats, making therapy more accessible for people with busy schedules or mobility challenges.
| 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
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- 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
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
