Nathan Staniford
Helping people make steady, practical change
About Nathan
Nathan Staniford is a counsellor with ten years' experience helping people handle stress, anxiety and life changes. He supports people through relationship difficulties, grief, addictions and questions about identity. Nathan aims to create an open, non-judgemental space where people can speak honestly and begin to make changes.
He uses Client-Centred Therapy to follow each person's pace and priorities, putting the person's own experience at the heart of sessions. Mindfulness Therapy is offered to help people manage distressing thoughts and present-moment tension.
Background and approach
He also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to spot practical steps and small changes that make a difference. Nathan has worked in four NHS foundation trusts and at a university, and he has run a independent practice since 2018. That range of settings means he is used to practical problems and everyday pressures alongside deeper emotional issues.
Sessions are offered in English and he accepts international clients. He works with people facing a wide variety of concerns including parenting stress, sleep and eating problems, career worries, compassion fatigue, ADHD and many relationship issues. People typically find the work is a mix of talking, noticing patterns and trying new ways of coping between sessions.
Nathan aims to help people build skills, reduce distress and make clearer choices about next steps. To begin a course of work, a short matching questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled to suit the client's needs and the therapist's availability.
What Nathan works with
How Nathan works
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Listed by Nathan among the ways they work.
Listed by Nathan among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How Nathan's approaches translate to online care
Client-Centred Therapy places the person's experience first, with the therapist listening closely and following what matters most. This approach helps when someone needs time to make sense of feelings or to work through personal identity and relationship concerns.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple exercises to notice thoughts and bodily sensations without getting swept away. These techniques can reduce ongoing worry and improve sleep, eating patterns and the ability to cope with chronic pain or stress.
Solution-Focused Therapy looks for small, practical steps that lead to change. It suits people who want short-term, goal-focused work that emphasises what is already working and how to build on it.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nathan will discuss goals and preferences with each person and together decide which methods to try. That collaborative process means the plan can change as needs become clearer.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins and messaging can fit around a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family and travel commitments and to choose a format that feels comfortable.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
