Saralea Stewart
Compassionate counsellor focusing on practical change
About Saralea
Saralea Stewart is a counsellor with ten years of professional experience. She holds a BA (Hons) degree in Person Centred Counselling and is registered with NCPS. Saralea works with adults and young adults on a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, relationship and family matters, addictions, grief and issues connected to identity and intimacy.
She trained in person-centred approaches and draws on that foundation in sessions. Her work also uses Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy to help clients clarify goals and find practical next steps.
Background and approach
Saralea blends talking, reflection and practical tasks so people can make changes outside sessions. Saralea has experience supporting people with stress, compassion fatigue and career-related pressures. She also helps with parenting strain, blended family challenges, body image and codependency.
Additional focuses include trauma and abuse, bipolar, sexual concerns such as BDSM and kink, and recovery from domestic violence and abandonment. Her background includes counselling in colleges, community organisations and addiction services. This experience informs a flexible, down-to-earth style that suits people who want straightforward help to manage difficult feelings and life transitions.
Saralea aims to create a calm, conversational space where people can talk through what matters to them. She offers practical tools alongside space to reflect, and supports people to set small, manageable steps toward their goals.
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How Saralea works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches for online counselling and change
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening without judgement and helping people find their own answers. It suits those who need space to explore feelings and build self-understanding.Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative way of talking that helps people resolve mixed feelings and find motivation to change. It is useful for issues like addictions, lifestyle changes and ambivalence about next steps.
Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on goals and practical steps rather than dwelling on problems. It helps people identify small, achievable changes to improve daily life and cope better with immediate concerns.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and adapt methods based on needs, goals and personal preferences. This means sessions can feel more collaborative and tailored to what the client wants to accomplish.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions suit those with less bandwidth, live chat works for quick check-ins and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel while keeping continuity of care.
| 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
