Avril Lote
Practical counselling for life’s difficult moments
About Avril
Avril Lote is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with seven years of professional experience. She offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety and depression. Avril works from the view that each person knows their own story and strengths, and she helps them make those strengths useful in day-to-day life.
She helps people who are coping with life changes and relationship concerns. She also supports people facing addiction, trauma and grief, and those dealing with intimacy, eating or self-esteem problems.
Background and approach
Avril pays attention to how identity, culture and experiences of prejudice shape a person's difficulties. Her practice draws on a few established approaches. Client-Centred Therapy guides conversations around what matters most to the client.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and offers practical strategies to try between sessions. Psychodynamic Therapy explores how past experiences and relationships can echo into current difficulties. Sessions are conversational and down-to-earth.
Avril aims to create a space where people can talk plainly about what’s hard, set small goals, and practise new ways of coping. She values clarity and steady progress rather than quick fixes. People come to Avril for many reasons beyond anxiety and low mood.
Common concerns include parenting and family stress, work and career pressures, ADHD-related challenges, and issues around sexuality and identity. She keeps the focus on what the person wants to change and how to get there. If someone is unsure where to begin, Avril encourages a short first step.
That might be a single session to talk through priorities and make a plan for what to try next.
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How Avril works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and strengths. In practice this means the counsellor listens closely and follows what the person wants to talk about, helping them find their own solutions and build confidence.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns. It breaks problems into manageable steps and offers simple exercises to practise between sessions, which can help with anxiety, low mood and coping skills.
Psychodynamic Therapy pays attention to how past relationships and experiences influence present feelings and reactions. It can help people understand recurring patterns and where they come from.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Avril will discuss choices together and tailor methods to the client’s needs, goals and preferences. The plan can change as progress is made, and the client’s feedback helps guide what comes next.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging allows ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while keeping the focus on steady, practical progress.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
