John Andrews
Empathic, practical counselling for stress and change
About John
John Andrews offers a human-centred counselling style that focuses on empathy and genuine connection. He creates a calm space where people can talk at their own pace and begin to make sense of difficult feelings. John holds a BACP accreditation, and brings four years of practice to each session.
His approach blends client-centred work with practical techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy. That means conversations often move between open listening and trying small, manageable steps to change unhelpful thoughts or behaviours.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to stresses such as anxiety, low mood, grief, addiction, sleep problems, and career strain. John also draws on existential ideas to help people think about meaning, choice, and what matters to them. This can be useful when coping with life changes, questions about identity, or feelings of being stuck.
He uses mindfulness practices to help people slow down, notice reactions, and build steadier responses to stress. People come for help with relationship issues, intimacy-related concerns, self-esteem, parenting strain, anger, and compassion fatigue. He has additional experience supporting matters like adoption and foster care, chronic illness and pain, ADHD, and body image worries.
Conversations can cover past patterns, trauma and abuse, or practical coping strategies. Sessions are offered in English and can take place online by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Costs vary with location and use a cancellable subscription.
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online support
John combines client-centred therapy with cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness in ways that suit each person. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening, empathy and building a trusting relationship so people can explore feelings at their own pace. Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and uses simple practical steps to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or break unhelpful habits. Mindfulness therapy offers short exercises to notice thoughts and bodily sensations, which can help when stress feels overwhelming or sleep is poor.Finding the right mix is part of the work. John will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches fit their needs, goals and preferences. Early sessions typically involve discussing the problem, trying an approach, and adjusting it as therapy progresses so it remains useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling easier to fit into life. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can help with shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it simpler to get help from wherever someone is located.
| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- 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
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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
- 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
