Olivia Stewart
Relationship-focused counsellor who values strengths
About Olivia
Olivia Stewart is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She brings three years of counselling experience and a longer background working in helping roles. Olivia sees both shorter and longer term work, and she focuses on building a steady, respectful relationship with each person who comes to her.
Her style is relational and straightforward. She encourages people to tell their story in their own words and looks for practical ways to ease pressure and distress.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and paced to the client, with attention to where feelings and patterns show up in everyday life. Olivia draws on approaches that help people notice recurring patterns and try small changes. She uses client-centred ways to follow what matters to the person in front of her.
Cognitive behavioural ideas are used when useful to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of thinking and acting. She also brings elements of psychodynamic and existential thinking to help people reflect on deeper patterns, life choices and meaning when that fits the work. Solution-focused techniques are used to set clear, practical steps for moving forward during and between sessions.
Olivia works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family matters, coping with life changes, addiction, trauma and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. She also supports people with career questions, caregiver strain, chronic illness, ADHD-related difficulties and identity and body-image concerns.
People find her approach empowering because she treats them as the expert on their life and helps them build on their strengths. She aims to create a calm space to try out new ways of coping and to plan achievable next steps.
What Olivia works with
How Olivia works
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Sessions & fees
How Olivia's approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy places the person's experience at the heart of the work. The counsellor listens closely and follows what the client brings, helping them clarify values and priorities and build on their strengths. This approach helps with a wide range of concerns from low mood to relationship stress.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing practical changes. It often uses straightforward exercises and small behavioural experiments to reduce anxiety, improve sleep and manage low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and the counsellor will work collaboratively to decide what fits best. Olivia will discuss goals, preferences and what feels workable, and then adapt methods as the work unfolds so it meets the client's needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different lifestyles. Video calls are close to face-to-face work and useful when visual contact helps the process. Phone sessions suit people who prefer not to use video or who have limited bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging can be used for shorter check-ins, written reflection or when someone wants to communicate without scheduling a video call. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel while keeping the therapeutic relationship consistent.
| 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
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
