Stefan Eckardt
Relationship-focused counsellor helping people find practical change
About Stefan
Stefan Eckardt is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with ten years of experience. He holds BACP registration, which reflects his professional standing with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Stefan works in English and German and aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people under strain.
He focuses on the web of relationships that shape everyday life. Sessions look at how interactions with others influence mood, stress and behaviour.
Background and approach
Stefan uses this perspective with individuals who want clearer thinking about family, work or close relationships, and with people tackling problems like anxiety, depression and addiction. In the room he mixes evidence-based methods with a collaborative style. That means he will listen, ask practical questions, and suggest exercises that people can try between sessions.
Approaches he uses include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy and Client-Centred Therapy. Common themes he supports include parenting strain, communication problems, intimacy-related issues, coping with life changes, trauma and abuse, and career stress. He also works with concerns such as eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, bipolar difficulties, and issues linked to adoption or foster care.
Sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging. Stefan guides people through a clear start-up process so they can pick a format and pace that fits their life. He aims to make the first steps as simple and direct as possible.
What Stefan works with
How Stefan works
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Sessions & fees
How Stefan’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that line up with what matters to them. It can help with anxiety, depression and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns that developed in close relationships and how they affect current trust, intimacy and conflict; it is useful for relationship and intimacy-related issues. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try different behaviours to change mood and functioning, which often helps with stress, sleeping and eating problems.Choosing an approach is a shared process. Stefan discusses goals and preferences in early sessions and adjusts methods as therapy progresses, so the plan evolves with the person's needs. This collaborative stance makes the work feel practical and relevant rather than prescriptive.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer written reflection or need flexibility around work and family schedules. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity between sessions.
| 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
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- 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
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, German
