Anna Graham
Compassionate trauma-aware counsellor
About Anna
Anna Graham is a BACP counsellor with six years of clinical experience. She started in mental health and social care and now focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and related concerns. Anna speaks English and works with adults in the United Kingdom.
She creates a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk things through at their own pace. Sessions are shaped around each person’s needs and goals. Sometimes conversation alone brings relief; other times Anna introduces practical strategies to cope day to day.
Background and approach
Anna uses a mix of client-centred ways of working, trauma-focused approaches and eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing. She explains methods in plain language and checks they feel right before using them. Her aim is to help people build resilience and move forward from painful experiences.
She often supports people dealing with grief, low self-esteem, depression, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and difficulties with sleep or eating. Additional areas she focuses on include chronic illness, body image, abandonment and isolation. Anna tailors her work to each person’s situation rather than following one fixed plan.
Sessions may involve exploring feelings, learning grounding and mindfulness techniques, and practising new ways of coping. Anna will collaborate with the person to set clear steps and to review progress. Her style is practical, down-to-earth and gently encouraging.
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Sessions & fees
How Anna’s approaches translate to online therapy
Anna uses client-centred therapy to focus on the person in front of her. This means sessions begin with listening to what matters most and then shaping the work around those priorities. It helps with low mood, stress and relationship concerns by keeping the person’s goals central.She also uses trauma-focused methods and eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing to address distressing memories and their ongoing effects. Trauma-focused work includes grounding and stabilisation before any memory work, while EMDR is explained step by step and used only when the person feels ready. These approaches can help reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and improve daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Anna will discuss options and together they will pick methods that fit the person’s needs, goals and comfort level. She regularly reviews progress and adjusts the plan if something isn’t working.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video lets people use facial cues and tone, phone can be quicker and needs less bandwidth, live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, care commitments and travel, while keeping the choice of format flexible.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
