Orlando Hollingsworth
Practical support for stress and relationships
About Orlando
Orlando Hollingsworth offers straightforward support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression and problems with relationships. He focuses on practical steps that help with self-esteem, anger, motivation and coping with big life changes. Orlando works with issues linked to grief, trauma, addictions and intimacy, and he also supports people exploring identity and LGBT concerns.
He has eight years of professional experience and holds registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Background and approach
Orlando adapts sessions to each person, shaping conversation and exercises to match the difficulty and pace that suit them. He uses a mix of approaches to help people notice patterns and try new ways of responding.
In practice he draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current bonds, and on cognitive behavioural strategies to spot unhelpful thinking and try small experiments. Narrative and psychodynamic ideas are used too, when people want to make sense of past events and recurring themes. Sessions are practical and grounded.
Clients can expect to talk through recent problems, try out coping tools, and map steps they feel ready to take. Orlando aims to be respectful and calm, encouraging honest conversation and steady progress. He offers work for a wide range of concerns including parenting stress, career issues, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related difficulties, and complex relationship patterns.
Orlando also helps people navigate separation, adoption and blended family strains where relevant.
What Orlando works with
How Orlando works
Listed by Orlando among the ways they work.
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Listed by Orlando among the ways they work.
Listed by Orlando among the ways they work.
Listed by Orlando among the ways they work.
Listed by Orlando among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How these approaches work online
Orlando uses attachment-based work to look at how early bonds shape current relationships. This approach helps when trust, intimacy or repeated conflict are central concerns and can clarify why certain patterns keep happening.He also uses cognitive behavioural therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioural experiments. CBT is useful for managing anxiety, low mood, anger and stress by giving clear, practical techniques to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Orlando will discuss goals and preferences and jointly decide which methods to try first. That plan can change as progress is reviewed so the work stays relevant to each person’s needs.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face dialogue and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging helps when people prefer to write or need flexible timing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments.
| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
