Poppy Streatfield
Empathic online counsellor for practical support
About Poppy
Poppy Streatfield is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who works online. She holds a BACP accreditation which reflects her professional registration, and she has seven years' experience offering one-to-one short and long-term counselling. She aims to create a warm, accepting and open space where people can talk about what matters to them.
Poppy adapts her way of working to each person. She draws on a range of approaches so sessions match the issue and the time available.
Background and approach
She offers weekly sessions and keeps messaging outside sessions mainly for practical enquiries. Her practice supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief and trauma. She also helps with relationship concerns, parenting strain, body image, eating issues and sexuality.
Additional focus areas include ADHD, attachment difficulties, autism and Asperger Syndrome, and mood or obsessive problems. Poppy trained in person-centred experiential counselling and psychotherapy and holds a Master of Arts in that subject. She also completed a postgraduate diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for people on the autism spectrum and with learning difficulties.
Other training includes solution-focused work, dialectical behaviour therapy and motivational interviewing. Before running a independent practice she worked in education, community and NHS settings. Her background means she is used to offering practical adjustments for people with additional needs, and she will discuss those when contacted.
To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
What Poppy works with
How Poppy works
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Sessions & fees
How Poppy’s approaches work online
Poppy uses person-centred counselling which focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. This approach helps people feel heard and to explore their thoughts and feelings at their own pace.She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. CBT offers practical ways to test unhelpful thoughts and to build new coping strategies, which can help with anxiety, low mood and repetitive worries.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences and how sessions are going, and adapt methods to fit what the person needs. This collaborative approach lets techniques be introduced when they feel useful.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow full face-to-face conversation when people prefer to see each other. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter updates or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility so people can choose the format that fits their routine and needs.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
