Fiona Waddle
Warm person-centred counsellor for relationship and trauma issues
About Fiona
Fiona Waddle is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She holds postgraduate qualifications and has seven years of experience working across hospice care, a wellbeing clinic and independent practice in the United Kingdom. Fiona helps people facing relationship difficulties, the impact of trauma and abuse, grief and loss, parenting stress and major life changes.
She also supports issues such as attachment concerns, body image, codependency, communication struggles, divorce and separation, and caregiver stress.
Background and approach
Her work begins from a person-centred place, where the client’s priorities lead the conversation. Fiona draws on mindfulness, solution-focused ideas and trauma-focused approaches to shape practical sessions that suit each person. Sessions are straightforward and aim to make complex feelings easier to talk about.
She has experience delivering therapeutic and psychoeducational groupwork with a national UK charity that supports people who have experienced domestic abuse. Fiona keeps up professional development and works in line with the BACP Ethical Framework. Outside work she enjoys walking in nature with her adopted rescue greyhound and spending time with family and friends.
People can expect a calm, attentive counsellor who aims to make the first steps into therapy as comfortable as possible.
What Fiona works with
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Sessions & fees
How Fiona’s approaches translate to online therapy
Fiona uses a person-centred way of working that puts the client's concerns first and helps them feel heard. This approach focuses on what the person wants to achieve and adapts to the online format by keeping sessions centred on the client’s priorities.She also uses mindfulness techniques to help people notice and manage difficult thoughts and feelings. Mindfulness exercises can be practised during video or phone sessions and adapted into short daily practices that fit into busy lives.
Solution-focused ideas are used to identify small, practical steps toward change. These techniques suit online work well because they are goal-oriented and easy to check in on between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is part of working together. Fiona will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then tailor methods over time. The process is collaborative and adjusts if something isn’t working.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls give face-to-face contact when needed, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins and text-based messaging supports people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
