Cecile Terrelonge
Supportive person-centred counsellor for life challenges
About Cecile
Cecile Terrelonge is a counsellor with 18 years' experience practising in the United Kingdom. She works in a person-centred way and aims to make it easier for people to speak openly about difficult feelings. Sessions are offered in English and are set for 50 minutes, usually on a regular day and time each week.
Cecile focuses on what a person can do next rather than on labels. She listens without judgement and helps people find clarity around stress, anxiety, depression and grief.
Background and approach
She also supports people with issues such as addiction, relationship difficulties, low self‑esteem and trauma. Her background includes setting up and running a voluntary youth counselling service, supporting people from early adolescence into young adulthood. She has worked with individuals affected by long-term health conditions and with those facing life changes and career concerns.
Cecile has been involved in work with LGBTQ+ communities and has supported people through specialist routes connected to the Black Trans Foundation and Gendered Intelligence. She describes herself as an ally and continues to develop this area of practice. Sessions can be short-term or longer-term and can be adjusted for people who work shifts, with changes agreed in advance.
Therapy approaches include attachment-based ideas, emotionally-focused work, mindfulness and motivational interviewing, used alongside a client-centred stance.
What Cecile works with
How Cecile works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Cecile uses attachment-based ideas to help people understand patterns in close relationships and how early connections affect current feelings. This approach can be useful for people dealing with relationship stress, abandonment fears or attachment difficulties.She also uses a client-centred stance which focuses on listening and reflecting what the person says. That style aims to help people feel heard and to find their own solutions rather than following a set plan.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, is another strand she uses to help people notice and work with strong emotions in the moment. EFT can help when feelings keep getting in the way of decisions, intimacy or coping with loss.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate on goals and suggest which methods to try first. Plans are reviewed together so the approach can change as needs and preferences become clearer.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues during deeper conversations. Phone sessions can fit into a short break and avoid the need to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching-style conversations or when writing feels easier than speaking.
| 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
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
