Andrew Higginbottom
Supportive counsellor focusing on practical change
About Andrew
Andrew Higginbottom is a counsellor with three years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. He focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, low mood and self-esteem. He also helps people facing relationship and family tension, addiction concerns, grief and trauma-related difficulties.
He works from a belief that the client is the expert in their own life. Sessions aim to build on existing strengths and practical skills. The first steps in therapy are framed as small, manageable actions rather than big, sudden changes.
Background and approach
His practice draws from approaches that encourage acceptance, clarity around values, and learning new ways of reacting to difficult thoughts and feelings. He uses straightforward conversation, reflective listening and goal-focused tasks to help people move forward. Sessions are intended to feel like problem-solving with support rather than a test or judgement.
Andrew has experience addressing issues such as intimacy-related problems, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting stress and career concerns. He also works with matters like compassion fatigue, ADHD, chronic illness and body image. The range includes both emotional struggles and practical life challenges.
Therapy sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to availability.
What Andrew works with
How Andrew works
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, then choosing actions that match their values. It is useful for stress, anxiety and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with depression, anxiety and sleep or eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotional responses, which can be useful for intimacy, relationship and family-related struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods suit their needs and goals. Sessions can mix elements from different approaches so the plan stays practical and personalised.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions suit those with lower bandwidth or who prefer no camera, and live chat or text messaging work for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare and daily life while keeping the focus on practical progress and skill-building.
| 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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- 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 problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace 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
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
