Belly Harding
Calm guidance for emotional clarity
About Belly
Belly Harding is a counsellor who blends several therapeutic approaches to help people find clarity and relief. She draws on seven years of clinical experience and a BACP credential to guide conversations that support change and understanding.
Belly trained in psychology with a Master of Science from Manchester Metropolitan University and is a doctorate candidate in counselling psychology and psychotherapy at Middlesex University. She also holds a certificate in Humanistic Therapies and Existential Counselling and a life coach certificate from the Coaching Training Institute.
Background and approach
Her practice centres on helping people make sense of their world and manage distress. Sessions are conducted in an open and non-judgemental manner. The aim is to support personal growth, self-discovery and greater authenticity in day-to-day life.
Belly uses an integrative mix of approaches, including existential ideas, cognitive behavioural techniques and psychodynamic thinking. These methods are combined to suit each person’s situation and goals rather than applied in a one-size-fits-all way. She has worked with a wide range of concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship strain, and has experience related to domestic violence and separation.
Belly can offer sessions in English and in French, and she provides Christian counselling when requested. People meet Belly for help with practical coping, decision-making, emotional recovery and rebuilding a sense of purpose. Her style aims to be warm and empathic while remaining focused on tangible steps forward.
What Belly works with
How Belly works
Listed by Belly among the ways they work.
Listed by Belly among the ways they work.
Listed by Belly among the ways they work.
Listed by Belly among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How different approaches work online
Attachment-based work focuses on relationships and how early bonds shape current patterns. Online conversations can uncover how attachment styles affect closeness, trust and communication in present relationships and guide changes in how people relate.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and replace them with more useful ways of coping. In online sessions CBT is often practical and task-focused, with exercises and short home tasks to try between meetings.
Existential therapy looks at questions of meaning, choice and identity when life feels uncertain. It can help people weigh values and decide on steps that align with what matters most to them.
Finding the best approach is part of the work. The counsellor will discuss goals, preferences and day-to-day realities and then shape a plan together. This collaborative process means methods can change as needs become clearer.
Online formats offer flexible ways to keep therapy going. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when visual cues help the discussion. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit around a busy day. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins, written reflection and ongoing contact between longer conversations.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, French
