Fiona Small
Compassionate counsellor for stress and life changes
About Fiona
Fiona Small is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief and relationship strains. Fiona aims to make the first step less daunting and to walk alongside people as they explore change.
She creates a calm, open space where thoughts and feelings can be talked through without judgement. Sessions are conversational and practical, with attention to what is happening day to day.
Background and approach
Fiona listens for patterns that hold people back and helps them try manageable alternatives. Fiona uses a mix of approaches to suit different needs. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and build new coping skills.
Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of the work and helps them feel heard and accepted. She also draws on mindfulness to reduce stress and hypnotherapy to support change when that fits the person’s goals. Motivational Interviewing is used to boost clarity and commitment during times of transition.
Fiona works with issues such as compassion fatigue, attachment concerns, body image, communication problems, isolation and life purpose. She also offers support around trauma, abuse, domestic violence, hospice and end-of-life related feelings, and complex emotions like guilt, shame and forgiveness. People meet Fiona by choosing a session format that suits them and taking small steps at their own pace.
Her approach is steady and practical, aimed at helping people build more manageable days and clearer direction.
What Fiona works with
How Fiona works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Fiona commonly uses Client-Centred Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in her work. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening with empathy and helping the person feel understood so they can make sense of their feelings and choices. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and helps people practise small, practical skills to reduce anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Fiona will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they shape a plan that might blend listening, skill-building and gentle experiments to test new ways of coping.
Online therapy can be flexible to fit everyday life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that feels helpful. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or a quieter way to talk when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to share thoughts between sessions or to fit support into a busy schedule. Registered and accredited professionals use these formats to offer regular, consistent care that fits around work, family and other commitments.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
