Edward Mcguinness
Practical, person-centred counselling
About Edward
Edward Mcguinness is a UK-based counsellor with three years of professional experience. He supports people who are finding life overwhelming and helps them take practical steps toward change. He aims to listen without judgement and to adapt sessions to each person’s needs.
He draws on several well-known approaches, including cognitive behavioural techniques and person-centred listening. Conversations focus on real problems people face, such as stress, anxiety, low mood, relationship difficulties, trauma and issues around self-esteem.
Background and approach
The work is practical and collaborative rather than lecture-style. Sessions also address concerns like grief, addictions, sleep and eating difficulties, career stress and the strain of caring for others. There is attention to more specialised areas too, including ADHD, attachment and identity matters.
This range is handled with sensitivity and a straightforward manner. Edward has worked alongside employee assistance and similar support programmes. That experience informs his approach to short-term goals and workplace-related issues.
He aims to help people identify small, manageable changes that add up over time. People who choose to work with him can expect tailored conversations, clear goal-setting and practical tools to try between sessions. He presents options and discusses what might suit each person best.
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What Edward works with
How Edward works
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions that move someone toward a life they care about, which suits stress, anxiety and life-change work. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and offers practical exercises to change unhelpful cycles; it is often useful for anxiety, depression and sleep or eating concerns. Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of the work, offering non-judgemental listening and support while the person finds their own solutions.Finding the best approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before, then agree a way forward together. This is a collaborative decision and can change as therapy progresses.
Please confirm which session formats are currently offered before booking since the biography does not list specific options. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed and reduce travel. It can also let someone try tools during real-life moments and bring practical changes into daily routines without promising a particular format.
| 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
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- 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
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- 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
- 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
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
