Heather Beveridge
Experienced inclusive counsellor focused on practical change
About Heather
Heather Beveridge begins by describing a long career in mental health and education that now informs her counselling work. She brings three years in a direct counselling role and many more years in related roles such as social work, mental health support, and special educational needs assistance.
Heather works in the United Kingdom and talks plainly with people about what matters to them. Her style is non-judgemental, empathic and inclusive.
Background and approach
She uses a person-centred outlook that treats each person as the expert on their life. Sessions focus on what the client wants to change and how to get there, with Heather offering practical ways to manage stress, anxiety and low mood. Heather uses a range of approaches rather than one fixed method.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and psychodynamic ideas, and adapts techniques to fit each person. That means sessions might include noticing unhelpful thoughts, exploring patterns from the past, and finding values-based steps to try between meetings.
She has worked with a wide set of concerns including trauma and abuse, addiction, compulsions and obsessive thoughts, eating difficulties, gender dysphoria, grief and parenting strain. Heather also supports people dealing with prejudice and discrimination, compassion fatigue, and the emotional effects of major life changes. People meet Heather to be heard and to build practical ways forward.
She aims to help clients feel more empowered, manage symptoms day to day, and make lasting changes that matter in everyday life.
What Heather works with
How Heather works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches you can access online
Heather commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify their values and take small steps towards them even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. ACT is helpful for anxiety, stress and when someone wants a more values-led life.She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, a practical method that looks at how thoughts and behaviours keep problems going. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, phobias and obsessive patterns because it focuses on skills to change unhelpful thinking and behaviour.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Heather will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then agree which methods to try. This is a collaborative process and the plan can change as needs evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation without travel, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging can fit into a busy day. These options make therapy easier to schedule and access from different locations while keeping the focus on the therapeutic process and progress.
| 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
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
