Miriam Berry
Compassionate psychodynamic counsellor
About Miriam
Miriam Berry helps people facing stress, anxiety, loss and relationship problems. She works with clients concerned about depression, self-esteem, intimacy and life changes. Miriam also supports those dealing with eating issues, grief and LGBT-related questions.
She takes a calm and curious approach in sessions. Miriam will listen first and then help you notice patterns in how you think and behave. She believes the way people relate now often links back to early experiences, and talking about those connections can open up new choices.
Background and approach
Miriam uses Psychodynamic Therapy, which means sessions often explore past relationships and early life events that shape current feelings. That work can make repetitive patterns clearer and reduce their hold on day-to-day life. Her additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment concerns, autism and Asperger syndrome, chronic illness and pain, codependency and communication problems.
She also works with people facing fertility difficulties, divorce or separation, and end-of-life or hospice matters. Miriam is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She has four years of experience and offers sessions to people in the United Kingdom.
Conversations take a steady, respectful tone and aim to help each person find practical, gradual change.
What Miriam works with
How Miriam works
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Sessions & fees
How psychodynamic work fits with online therapy
Psychodynamic Therapy looks at how past relationships and early experiences shape feelings and behaviour today. In short sessions this often means noticing repeated patterns in relationships and discussing how those patterns began and continue. For people struggling with grief, attachment or identity questions, this approach can help explain why things feel familiar and hard to change. Miriam approaches that work collaboratively. She will help clients decide whether psychodynamic work feels right, or whether a different focus would suit their goals better. Together they set priorities and adapt the pace and focus based on what the client needs. Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a lunch break, while text and live chat allow more frequent, shorter check-ins. These options aim to make it easier to keep therapy going around work, family and health 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
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
