Päivi Griffiths
Compassionate support for stress and trauma
About Päivi
Päivi Griffiths offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety. She helps with low mood, relationship difficulties, and the effects of trauma and abuse. Päivi speaks English, Finnish and Swedish and works with clients from the United Kingdom.
She is a BACP counsellor with six years of professional experience. Päivi uses a client-centred way of working that puts the person's own experience first. Sessions focus on listening, understanding and helping people make choices that suit their life.
Background and approach
She aims to build a steady, non-judgemental space where someone can talk through what matters most to them. Typical work might include noticing patterns that keep someone stuck, exploring attachment and abandonment wounds, and gently addressing shame or low self-worth. Päivi also supports people dealing with body image, codependency, commitment worries and communication problems.
She takes a straightforward approach to practical concerns such as navigating divorce, separation or family tensions. Päivi draws on six years of client work in the UK and uses her training with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP. Her multilingual skills mean she can offer sessions in Finnish or Swedish when helpful.
She encourages people to follow their own pace and to bring whatever feels important into the room. Starting therapy typically begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session. Päivi aims to help people reconnect with their strengths and move toward clearer choices about their relationships, sense of self and life purpose.
What Päivi works with
How Päivi works
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Sessions & fees
Client-centred care offered online
Client-centred therapy focuses on the person's own experience and choices. The therapist listens without judgement and reflects back what she hears to help someone better understand their feelings. This approach is often useful for anxiety, low mood, relationship worries and issues linked to attachment and shame.In practice, sessions are collaborative. Päivi will work with each person to find the right fit between approach, goals and preferences. That may mean adapting how conversations unfold, checking in about what helps, and choosing practical exercises together rather than imposing a fixed plan.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls suit deeper conversational work and visual connection. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging are useful for people who prefer writing, want flexible check-ins, or need to fit therapy around busy days. These options make it easier to attend appointments from different locations and at varied times.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Finnish, Swedish
