Fiona Platts
Practical, paced counselling for life challenges
About Fiona
Fiona Platts is a counsellor who uses client-centred, existential and trauma-focused approaches. She aims to offer steady support while helping people find their own way forward. Her work is practical and paced to what each person can manage.
She has three years of direct client experience working in independent practice and online. That experience includes helping people who are dealing with trauma and abuse, sexual abuse, grief and loss, depression, stress and anxiety.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing relationship strain, parenting pressures, career worry and compassion fatigue. Fiona adapts sessions to the needs of the person in front of her. She focuses on listening deeply and reflecting what she hears.
That helps people notice patterns, make different choices and try new ways of coping. Her trauma-focused work is careful and paced so people do not feel overwhelmed. Existential ideas are used to help people consider meaning, values and choices in their life.
The client-centred stance keeps the work grounded in the person's experience. Sessions can include practical steps, conversational reflection and coaching-style tasks when that fits. Fiona aims to help people build clearer boundaries, improve communication, and manage anger or low self-esteem.
She also offers help with blended family issues, body image, caregiver stress, codependency and forgiveness. Fiona works in English and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. She uses a subscription model for sessions that can be cancelled at any time.
To begin, a short questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled according to the therapist's availability.
What Fiona works with
How Fiona works
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Sessions & fees
How Fiona's approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what the person says so they can feel heard and think things through. It helps with low self-esteem, relationship concerns and general life stress by placing the person's experience at the centre of the work.Existential Therapy looks at values, meaning and choice. It can help when someone is questioning purpose, facing big life changes or feeling a sense of emptiness. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on the impacts of traumatic events and uses careful, paced work to reduce overwhelm and build coping skills.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to decide which methods suit their goals and preferences. That collaborative planning can change over time as needs evolve.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls are close to face-to-face work, phone sessions suit people who prefer not to use video, and live chat or text messaging can fit short check-ins or busy schedules. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and travel, and to keep contact consistent when that helps progress.
| 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
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
