Stacey Farrell
Calm, practical support for everyday struggles
About Stacey
Stacey Farrell trained as a counsellor in the United Kingdom and brings six years of professional experience to her practice. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, grief and depression, as well as more complex issues such as trauma, bipolar disorder, and addiction. Stacey writes simply and directly, so people can understand what to expect from sessions.
She believes people already carry strengths that help them make change and moves at a pace that feels manageable.
Background and approach
Stacey works in a collaborative, gentle way. She listens closely and helps people name what is difficult. From there she offers practical tools and ways to try things differently between sessions.
Sessions cover relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, body image and career worries as well as neurodiverse experiences such as autism and ADHD. Her approach draws on attachment-based and client-centred ideas to build trust, along with cognitive behaviour strategies to challenge unhelpful thoughts. Dialectical behaviour elements and mindfulness skills may be used to manage strong emotions and reduce overwhelm.
Stacey tailors these methods depending on each person’s needs and goals. Sessions are offered in English and are suitable for people who want calm, clear guidance rather than technical jargon. She aims to make therapy practical, accessible and focused on small steps that add up to meaningful change.
If someone is ready to begin, Stacey encourages them to reflect on what they want from therapy and to bring that into the first meeting. The work is paced around the client and their priorities.
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that guide online work and practical benefits
Stacey often uses attachment-based and client-centred approaches. Attachment-based work helps people understand patterns in relationships and how early bonds influence current reactions. Client-centred work focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel heard and can make choices from a clearer place.She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going. CBT tends to be useful for anxiety, low mood and stress because it breaks down upsetting cycles and builds small experiments to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach happens together. Stacey will talk through options and try methods that fit a person's goals and comfort level. She sees therapy as a team effort where testing an approach and adjusting it is part of the process.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video works well when visual connection helps the conversation. Phone sessions suit days with low bandwidth or when people need a quicker check-in. Live chat and messaging can be useful for shorter notes, reflections between sessions or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options aim to make therapy flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
