Anita Burton
Supportive therapist focused on practical change
About Anita
Anita Burton is a talking therapist practising in the United Kingdom. She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and brings three years of clinical experience to her work. Anita offers a calm, respectful presence and focuses on helping people who feel stuck or overwhelmed.
Her sessions often start by listening closely to a person’s story and values. Anita treats each person as the expert on their life and helps them make sense of patterns that cause stress or anxiety.
Background and approach
She works collaboratively and aims to build trust and confidence over time. Anita uses a mix of approaches depending on the issue. She draws on attachment ideas to look at how early relationships shape current behaviour.
She also uses client-centred methods to keep the work focused on the person’s priorities. When trauma or old hurts come up, she applies trauma-informed thinking to support recovery. People come to Anita for many concerns, such as anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, parenting strain, sleep problems, eating issues, addiction, career decisions and grief.
She also addresses more specific areas like attachment wounds, communication problems, feelings of emptiness, and caregiver stress. Anita describes therapy as a partnership. She helps people set small, practical goals and tests out new ways of coping.
The aim is clearer thinking, steadier mood, and greater confidence in day-to-day life.
What Anita works with
How Anita works
Listed by Anita among the ways they work.
Listed by Anita among the ways they work.
Listed by Anita among the ways they work.
Listed by Anita among the ways they work.
Listed by Anita among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How Anita’s approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and behaviour. Online sessions can explore patterns of closeness and distance so people better understand why they feel afraid of rejection or struggle with trust. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and values and uses a warm, non-judgemental stance to help people find their own answers. This approach suits issues like low self-esteem and life decisions where the person’s perspective is central.Anita will work with clients to find the right combination of approaches. She treats choosing a method as a shared task and will adapt work as needs and goals change. That way each plan is tailored rather than fixed in advance.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow fuller face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter reflections, day-to-day coaching or people who prefer writing to speaking. These options offer flexibility for different rhythms and practical constraints, and they let people continue therapy while travelling or juggling work and family commitments.
| 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
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
