Shona Moncrieff
Compassionate counselling for complex life challenges
About Shona
Shona Moncrieff helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, relationship and intimacy issues, and challenges such as addiction, grief and coping with life changes. She also supports people dealing with parenting concerns, sleeping and eating difficulties, anger, career stress, and neurodiversity-related issues including ADHD and autism.
Shona works with LGBT concerns and complex situations like abandonment, adoption and foster care, and blended family questions. Shona is based in the United Kingdom and has three years of professional experience.
Background and approach
She holds BACP accreditation, which means she is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Her practice is grounded in a trauma-informed outlook and a belief that people already have strengths to draw on. In sessions she uses a mix of well-known approaches to fit each person.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help with values and action, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to tackle unhelpful thinking patterns, and attachment-based ideas when relationships and early experiences are affecting present life. She also uses client-centred listening and skills from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy where emotional regulation is needed. Her style is warm and non-judgemental.
She focuses on practical steps and reminders of people’s existing resources. Conversations are paced to suit each person and to build confidence over time. Shona offers several online formats so people can choose what suits them.
She invites those ready to take a first step to use the site’s matching process to arrange sessions according to her availability.
What Shona works with
How Shona works
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Sessions & fees
How therapy approaches translate to online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and build small actions that match those values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes because it focuses on meaningful action rather than fighting difficult thoughts.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses practical strategies to test and change patterns that contribute to anxiety, low mood or unhelpful behaviours, and works well for specific problems like sleep or worry.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit the person’s needs, goals and preferences. This usually means trying ideas in sessions and adjusting them as progress is made.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging so people can pick what suits their day. Video lets people use visual connection for deeper conversation, phone can be simpler if bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and life commitments while keeping the focus on practical 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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
