Anne Ryan-Thomas
Practical, person-centred therapy for life's challenges
About Anne
Anne Ryan-Thomas helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship strain, addictions and major life changes. She works with mood difficulties such as depression and bipolar symptoms, and supports concerns around sleep, eating, ADHD and compassion fatigue. Her practice also covers career worries, parenting strain, trauma and abuse, and issues linked to ageing and long-term illness.
Anne uses a flexible, person-centred style. She listens first and shapes sessions around what the individual needs.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be practical and straightforward, with steps people can try between appointments. People can expect an open conversation rather than a lecture. Her therapeutic toolkit includes cognitive behavioural techniques to spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
She also draws on narrative ideas to help people rewrite difficult stories about themselves. Jungian and existential influences appear when exploring meaning, identity and life transitions. Before training as a counsellor, Anne spent two decades working as a nurse in the NHS.
That healthcare background informs her interest in the mind-body connection and practical health-related concerns. She has 12 years of experience as a therapist and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Anne offers sessions in English from the United Kingdom.
Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people find clearer ways to cope and move forward.
What Anne works with
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and building understanding. It helps people feel heard and supported while they talk through problems and decide what changes to try. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, concentrates on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviours; it is useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep or eating difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has or has not helped in the past. Together they will choose or combine methods so the work fits the person's situation and pace.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and mirror many aspects of face-to-face sessions. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer written reflection, want brief updates between sessions or need a lower-key way to communicate. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt these formats to make therapy more accessible around work, caregiving and travel 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
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
