Patrick Whelan
Calm, practical counselling for everyday struggles
About Patrick
Patrick Whelan offers a practical, solution-focused approach to therapy. He works with people facing stress, anxiety, low mood and workplace burnout. He also helps with relationship worries, self-esteem, motivation and addiction concerns.
Patrick is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and has four years of professional experience. He describes his style as motivational and pragmatic, aiming to treat people with sensitivity and respect. Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all method.
Background and approach
He uses an integrative way of working, drawing on a range of techniques so the session fits the person. If someone prefers structured coping skills and exercises, he can provide those alongside conversational counselling. This flexible mix is intended to build practical strategies and emotional understanding.
Patrick has recently supported NHS staff during periods of crisis and has experience addressing grief, trauma, compassion fatigue and major life changes. He also works with issues such as eating and sleeping problems, intimacy-related difficulties, ADHD and bipolar concerns. People can expect straightforward conversations and clear goal-setting.
Sessions focus on small, manageable steps and on building skills for coping with everyday pressures and longer-term problems.
What Patrick works with
Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Patrick works in an integrative, solution-focused way that combines structured coping tools with conversational counselling. Solution-focused techniques concentrate on small, practical steps and on building strategies that can be used between sessions. They help with stress, workplace burnout and short-term goal setting.He also blends evidence-based coping skills and exercises into sessions for people who want concrete techniques. These skills are often used to tackle anxiety, low mood and sleep or eating difficulties by teaching breathing, behavioural changes and routine adjustments.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods suit their goals and preferences. That partnership means plans are adjusted as progress is made and new needs emerge.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is good for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging can support ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible for busy schedules and different communication styles.
| 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
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
