Benjamin Isaacs
Compassionate psychotherapist using imagination and mindfulness
About Benjamin
Benjamin Isaacs helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction and low self-esteem. He supports those dealing with depression, grief, trauma and relationship difficulties. He also works with people navigating parenting, career change, bipolar issues and struggles linked to identity and LGBT concerns.
Benjamin offers a calm, compassionate presence in sessions. He keeps things straightforward and listens for what matters most to each person. He often brings imagination, dreams and meditation into the work to help people connect with their inner life.
Background and approach
His practice draws on attachment-based thinking and client-centred methods so the relationship itself matters. He also uses ideas from Jungian and existential approaches to help people find meaning and make sense of difficult experiences. Mindfulness techniques are used to support grounding and coping with overwhelming feelings.
Benjamin has 18 years of experience working in therapeutic and care settings across the United Kingdom. He has supported vulnerable adults with a range of needs while developing his interest in archetypal psychology and meditation. In sessions he combines listening with gentle guidance and practical ways to manage day-to-day difficulties.
He is comfortable working with issues such as addiction, family of origin problems, attachment concerns and dissociation. The aim is to help people feel steadier and clearer about their next steps. People who meet him can expect a reflective, humane approach that balances talking, imagery and simple mindfulness practices.
He welcomes conversations about how therapy can fit around life and what someone hopes to change.
What Benjamin works with
How Benjamin works
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Sessions & fees
How his approaches work online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape patterns in close relationships today. Online sessions can name those patterns, help regulate strong feelings and support new ways of relating. Client-centred therapy puts the person's experience at the centre and values being heard without judgement; this is useful for building trust and clarity in remote sessions. Jungian ideas bring imagery, dreams and archetypes into conversation to explore deeper personal themes and meaning, which can be discussed in video or text formats.Choosing the right way of working is part of the process and will be decided together. The therapist will talk through options, listen to personal goals and adapt methods to suit what feels most helpful. This collaborative approach helps shape whether work emphasises practical coping, exploration of life meaning or working with internal parts and images.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls mirror face-to-face conversation and allow guided imagery and mindfulness practice. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, written reflection or people who prefer writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and different kinds of work can be blended as needed.
| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
