Annette Buswell
A compassionate, practical counsellor for life challenges
About Annette
Annette Buswell offers a calm, steady presence for people facing stress, anxiety, grief and life changes. She introduces practical ways to manage feelings and to rebuild a sense of control. Her approach aims to help people feel listened to and to find options that suit their everyday life.
Annette draws on seven years of practice and works in line with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She combines person-centred listening with techniques from hypnotherapy and mindfulness to support people through difficult moments.
Background and approach
This mix allows sessions to be focused and flexible depending on what someone needs. Sessions may be short-term to tackle a specific problem or longer-term to look at recurring patterns. Annette emphasises empathy and steady rapport so people can work at their own pace.
She uses clear, practical tools rather than jargon to help with mood, confidence and coping skills. Her background includes mindfulness training and hypnotherapy alongside psychodynamic and solution-focused ideas. That range lets her tailor work for issues such as low self-esteem, trauma, addictions and relationship concerns.
The emphasis is on developing self-compassion and realistic steps forward. People who choose Annette can expect a supportive, non-judgemental space to talk. She aims to help clients recognise strengths, manage distressing symptoms and make choices that lead to a more manageable, meaningful life.
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How Annette works
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Sessions & fees
Approach-focused online therapy that fits your life
Annette offers person-centred work that puts the client at the heart of each session. This approach means the counsellor listens first and follows what matters to the person, helping them set goals and make steady progress.She also uses mindfulness therapy to teach simple exercises for calming the mind and reducing stress. These practices can help with anxiety, low mood and coping during change by building moment-to-moment awareness and calmer breathing. Hypnotherapy is offered as a complementary tool to access focused relaxation and to support shifts in habits or unhelpful thinking patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The counsellor will discuss options and adapt techniques to match each person’s goals, preferences and current needs in a collaborative way. Clients are involved in deciding whether to try short-term focused work or a longer exploration.
Online sessions are provided by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for a fuller conversation, phone sessions suit quieter bandwidth or hands-free times, and messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing written reflection. This variety helps people fit therapy around work, caregiving or 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
