Simone Riviere
Calm, relationship-focused integrative counselling
About Simone
Simone Riviere offers an integrative approach that places the relationship between counsellor and client at the centre of therapy. She draws on psychodynamic ideas alongside client-centred and mindfulness work to help people talk through difficult feelings. Simone believes therapy can create breathing space and a clearer sense of balance in daily life.
She has worked in the United Kingdom for ten years and holds BACP accreditation. Simone provides both short-term and open-ended therapy depending on what someone needs.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be non-judgemental and focused on the person's experience rather than labels. Common concerns Simone supports include stress and anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and addiction. She also helps people facing relationship strain, intimacy-related issues, parenting stress and career uncertainty.
Additional areas of focus include ADHD, attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, and complications arising from blended families. Her practice pays attention to deeper emotional patterns alongside present-day struggles. This can involve looking at early relationships and how they show up now, noticing bodily responses to stress, and using mindfulness to manage overwhelming moments.
Simone also uses motivational interviewing techniques when people want help with change and goal-setting. Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients. Simone works through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging, adapting the format to individual needs.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
What Simone works with
How Simone works
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Sessions & fees
How Simone's approach fits online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on an empathetic, non-judgemental relationship and helps people feel heard and understood. This approach is useful for addressing low mood, self-esteem issues, and relational distress.Psychodynamic Therapy looks at recurring patterns and how past relationships affect current feelings and behaviour. It can help people make sense of long-standing emotional difficulties and repeated problems in relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Simone will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together they decide which methods to use. This collaborative process means the approach can change over time as needs evolve.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging lets people reflect in writing. These options give practical flexibility and make it simpler to keep continuity of care across locations and schedules.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
