Annie Ryan
Compassionate, practical counselling for clear change
About Annie
Annie Ryan offers practical, evidence-based counselling that focuses on what feels most urgent to a person right now. She provides straightforward support for stress, anxiety, depression and problems with relationships and identity. Annie is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and draws on five years working in independent practice to guide her work.
Annie keeps sessions clear and goal-focused. She listens to what is causing difficulty and helps people set small, manageable steps.
Background and approach
Progress is checked regularly so plans can be adjusted if something is not working. Her experience includes supporting people with addiction, trauma, grief and parenting strain. She also helps with intimacy concerns, self‑esteem, career pressures and mood conditions such as bipolar and depression.
Additional areas she pays attention to include attachment and abandonment, body image, codependency and communication problems. Annie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to respond to each person’s needs. She works at a pace that suits the individual and prioritises practical ways to cope between sessions.
Conversations aim to balance empathy with clear strategies for change. Sessions are offered in English and take place online by video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging. Information about cost and the subscription model is available during the matching process.
To begin, people complete a short questionnaire and arrange a session time that fits their schedule.
What Annie works with
Sessions & fees
Online approaches that fit your life
Annie draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that translate well to online work. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and practicing alternatives; it helps with anxiety, low mood and stress by giving clear skills to use between sessions. Another approach centres on processing difficult experiences by shaping how memories and feelings are talked about in therapy; this can be useful for trauma, grief and complex relationship problems.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Annie will talk through what feels most important, try methods that match the person’s goals, and review what helps over time. The plan is adjusted together if something is not helpful or if priorities change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful when visual connection matters, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins and text messaging suits ongoing reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family 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
What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
