Patricia Foster
Experienced counsellor blending warmth and practical tools
About Patricia
Patricia Foster is a counsellor who blends person-centred work with practical therapies. She holds BACP registration and brings 20 years of experience to conversations about stress, anxiety, addictions and grief. Patricia keeps sessions straightforward and focused on what matters most to each person.
Patricia mixes talking therapies with clear tools. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current feelings. She draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and build new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Dialectical and emotionally focused approaches are used when emotions feel overwhelming or relationships are strained. People come to Patricia for a wide range of worries. She supports those dealing with low self-esteem, depression, parenting strain, intimacy concerns, anger and bipolar challenges.
Additional focus areas include body image, codependency, communication problems, caregiving stress and neurodiversity-related issues such as autism and Asperger syndrome. Sessions are organised around the individual. Patricia works with each person to set realistic goals and practical steps.
She emphasises simple, usable strategies alongside space to talk and process painful experiences such as trauma and loss. Patricia offers therapy in English from the United Kingdom and accepts international clients. Her style aims to be warm and non-judgemental while also giving clear guidance.
For many people she provides both short-term coping tools and longer-term space for change.
What Patricia works with
How Patricia works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Patricia combines attachment-based work and cognitive behavioural techniques to help people understand patterns and change unhelpful thoughts. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and helps people build more supported ways of relating. Cognitive behavioural therapy focuses on identifying negative thought patterns and testing practical steps to feel and behave differently.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Patricia will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then collaborate on a plan that combines different methods as needed. This means therapy can be tailored and adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging provide brief, on-the-go contact and are useful for continuing work between longer sessions. Together these options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and travel.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
