Ann Foster
Client-centred counsellor focusing on relationships and change
About Ann
Ann Foster uses a client-centred approach to help people feel heard and understood. She keeps sessions focused on each person's needs and goals, and works at a steady, respectful pace. Ann holds NCPS, which is shown as NCPS in her credentials, and she practises in the United Kingdom.
She has nine years of experience working with a wide range of concerns. Common issues she supports include stress, anxiety, depression and bipolar mood difficulties.
Background and approach
She also helps with relationship and intimacy questions, grief, trauma and abuse, and LGBT-related concerns. Ann offers practical and conversational work. Sessions are led by the client, and she helps people shape a plan that suits their situation.
That plan can include talking through difficult feelings, noticing patterns that get in the way, and trying new ways of relating to others. Her additional focus areas cover topics such as body image, eating concerns, parenting strain, caregiver stress and chronic illness. She also works with people grappling with abandonment, attachment issues and communication problems.
Ann aims to help people regain a sense of control and steadiness during life changes. She uses a relational way of working which keeps empathy and acceptance at the centre. The aim is to create a steady space where someone can try out new responses and make gradual changes.
Ann supports clients who want coaching-style help as well as more traditional talking therapy. Sessions are offered in English and are available online by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. People begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
What Ann works with
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Sessions & fees
How Ann's approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening without judgement and helps people clarify their own goals. It is useful for stress, anxiety, self-esteem issues and life changes because it centres the client's voice and choices.Imago Relationship Therapy looks at patterns in how people relate and helps partners or individuals understand what they need from relationships. It can be helpful for intimacy concerns, communication problems and commitment issues by offering structured ways to talk and listen.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which way of working fits best based on the person's needs, goals and preferences. That shared decision happens early and can be adapted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people read facial cues and tone, phone calls need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, live chat can be useful for quick check-ins, and text messages work for ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
