Sarah Bayford
Relational counselling focused on self and relationships
About Sarah
Sarah Bayford uses a relational, attachment-informed way of working to help people with the problems that show up in their relationships and in how they feel about themselves. She is Sarah Bayford, a BACP counsellor with seven years of practice based in the United Kingdom. She speaks English and offers sessions through a range of online formats.
She focuses on common but painful issues such as anxiety, stress and depression.
Background and approach
She also helps with trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, grief and intimacy-related difficulties. Practical day-to-day struggles like sleeping, eating, parenting and career stress are included too, along with concerns about self-esteem and identity including LGBT matters. Her approach aims to make sense of how early attachment and current connections shape feelings and behaviour.
Sessions usually centre on what is happening in relationships now and how the relationship someone has with themselves affects their choices. This often includes noticing patterns, building self-compassion and experimenting with different ways of relating. Cognitive behavioural ideas are used where helpful to work on unhelpful thoughts and behaviours.
Existential and Jungian perspectives can be drawn in to look at meaning, values and deeper parts of the self. Therapy is collaborative and paced to what each person needs. Sarah has experience supporting people through family problems, abandonment and attachment issues, codependency, domestic violence, and substance use concerns.
She is also working with areas such as ADHD and autism-related challenges. People are invited to explore practical steps and small changes that make daily life more manageable and more authentic.
What Sarah works with
How Sarah works
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Sessions & fees
Attachment and practical approaches for online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships influence how someone responds to stress and connection. It helps people notice patterns that repeat in relationships and try new ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying.Client-Centred Therapy is built on careful listening and acceptance. The counsellor offers a non-judgemental space where people can talk at their own pace, explore feelings and strengthen self-understanding before making changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and is decided together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then adapt methods over time to suit each person. This collaborative process helps ensure the work stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video lets people see facial expressions and mirror in-session conversations. Phone calls need less bandwidth and can fit a shorter break in a busy day. Messaging and live chat suit quick check-ins, written reflection or times when being off-camera feels better. These options make it easier to fit therapy into everyday life while keeping the therapeutic focus on progress and connection.
| 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
