Robert Winstanley
Practical, person-centred counselling for everyday struggles
About Robert
Robert Winstanley is a BACP counsellor and psychotherapist with nine years' experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression and relationship issues. He works in a straightforward, practical way and aims to make therapy feel approachable and useful from the start.
He frames sessions around respect, honesty and freedom of choice. That means conversations are person-centred and guided by what matters most to the client. He blends a person-centred outlook with practical problem-solving techniques so emotional support and real-life steps happen together.
Background and approach
Robert has worked in the NHS and employee assistance services across England and Ireland since 2016. That background means he is used to supporting people with work-related stress, bereavement and similar everyday pressures. He has also worked with people from a range of cultural and neurodiverse backgrounds.
One area he spends a lot of time on is Critical Incident Stress Management debriefs. He travels to workplaces around the UK to offer support after traumatic events and to help people process what has happened. These sessions focus on practical tools and immediate emotional care.
In therapy, Robert mixes listening with structured steps. Conversations aim to surface feelings, set small goals and try practical changes between sessions. The approach is collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
What Robert works with
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Sessions & fees
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on empathetic listening and following the client's pace. Online sessions give space for the counsellor to hear what matters most and reflect it back, which suits issues like low self-esteem, grief and relationship worries.Solution-Focused Therapy is short-term and goal oriented. It concentrates on small, concrete changes and what is already working. This approach helps when someone wants practical steps for stress, work problems or managing anxiety between sessions.
Trauma-Focused Therapy offers ways to process and stabilise after distressing events. When working online, the therapist combines careful listening with clear coping strategies and step-by-step planning to support recovery after traumatic incidents.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has helped in the past, then suggest a way forward. Plans can change as work progresses and will be adjusted to fit the person’s needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation; phone calls can fit shorter breaks or lower bandwidth; live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to schedule therapy around work and family life and to keep continuity when travel or location would otherwise interrupt progress.
| 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
