Anna Critsinelis
Helping people reduce anxiety and rebuild confidence
About Anna
Anna Critsinelis is a counsellor with ten years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety and self-esteem concerns. She works with clients who face bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and major life changes. Sessions are offered in English and Portuguese for people in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Anna adopts a straightforward, person-centred way of working. She listens first and helps people identify what matters most to them. From there she and the client agree on small, practical steps to reduce distress and build resilience.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and solution-focused methods to set short-term goals. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy techniques to help people live with difficult thoughts while pursuing valued activities. Appointments may use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging so clients can choose what suits their life.
Anna describes therapy as a collaborative process and aims for sessions that feel manageable and relevant from the start. People typically come to work through anxiety, stress, relationship and communication problems, issues around identity and gender, or challenges linked to neurodiversity and personality concerns. In sessions she helps with coping strategies, communication skills and ways to reduce shame and impulsivity.
Her registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, is noted on her profile. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability.
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that guide online sessions
Anna uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people recognise and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns, which can ease anxiety and improve daily functioning. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is used to help clients accept difficult thoughts and feelings while taking actions that match their values, a useful approach for long-term challenges and life changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Anna collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences. She adapts techniques over time so sessions stay practical and focused on what the client wants to achieve.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, giving flexibility around work, family or travel. Video suits deeper conversations and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat can support brief check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. This range helps people keep therapy consistent even when life is busy.
| 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
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
