Brian Doherty
Practical, person-led support for grief and relationships
About Brian
Brian Doherty uses client-centred and psychodynamic ideas to help people who are facing grief, depression and relationship concerns. He talks in plain language and focuses on the person in front of him. Brian believes people already hold strengths they can use to move forward.
He has ten years of professional experience working in the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration. That means he works within recognised professional standards in counselling.
Background and approach
Brian aims to make each session straightforward and understandable for people who are worried or uncertain. In practice he listens first and follows the person's priorities. He draws on mindfulness techniques to help with overwhelming feelings and on psychodynamic and Jungian ideas to look at patterns that repeat in life.
Sessions often include practical steps to ease day-to-day problems, alongside time to talk about deeper issues. He supports people dealing with anger, intimacy-related issues, sexual identity and the many forms of loss that come with grief. He also helps with body image, commitment and communication problems, chronic illness and the stresses of caregiving.
Brian works with people on control issues, attachment concerns and the emotional side of separation or domestic violence. Sessions are offered in English and are available to people in the United Kingdom and abroad. He adapts his approach to each person's needs and helps them weigh options so they can choose what feels right.
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Sessions & fees
How therapy approaches work online
Client-centred therapy starts from the person's own goals and experience, with the therapist listening closely and following what matters most. It helps with grief, depression and relationship worries by focusing on understanding and practical next steps. Psychodynamic and Jungian ideas look at patterns that repeat across a person's life and bring those patterns into awareness so they can be changed; this can be useful for attachment issues, control problems and long-standing emotional habits.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Brian will work collaboratively to choose techniques that fit the person's needs, goals and comfort level. He adapts the mix of listening, mindfulness exercises and reflective work over time so the plan evolves as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat can be a shorter check-in and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel while keeping the focus on practical progress and emotional understanding.
| 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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
