Brett Garcia
Calm, experienced counsellor for practical change
About Brett
Brett Garcia uses attachment-based, client-centred and cognitive behavioural approaches to help people who are feeling overwhelmed. He is a counsellor with more than 20 years of experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Brett offers a calm, straightforward space to talk things through and make practical changes.
Brett keeps sessions focused on what is happening now while also looking at patterns from earlier life that affect current feelings and choices.
Background and approach
He helps people untangle anxiety, low mood, stress and difficult relationships by spotting unhelpful patterns and testing new ways of coping. Conversations are collaborative and paced to suit each person. He has worked across health, education and social care, including senior clinical roles in the UK National Health Service.
That background means he is used to supporting people who face high pressure at work and complex life demands. Brett also has experience with ADHD and autism, and adapts how he works to match how each person communicates. Brett supports a wide range of concerns such as trauma, grief, addiction, parenting strain, sleep and eating difficulties, identity and intimacy issues.
He also offers coaching-style support for career and leadership decisions. Practical goal setting sits alongside deeper reflection to help people move forward. Sessions are held in English and Brett accepts international clients.
He aims to make therapy manageable by working at a steady pace and agreeing clear steps with each person. He offers video calls, phone work, live chat and text-based messaging to fit different needs and routines.
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Sessions & fees
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Brett draws on attachment-based work to look at patterns in close relationships and how they affect present feelings; this helps when people want to understand recurring trust or intimacy problems. Client-centred work is about listening and following each person's pace, helping people feel heard and shaping sessions around their needs. Cognitive behavioural therapy involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small changes in behaviour to reduce anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Brett will talk with each person about goals, preferences and how they like to communicate, then agree which methods to try. That collaborative planning means therapy can shift over time if different tools prove more helpful.
Online work makes it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from wherever someone is, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be simpler to fit into a lunch break, while live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use words instead of speaking. These options support continuity of care and provide flexibility around work, travel or day-to-day 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
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
