Stella Hendricks
A steady, thoughtful counsellor for repeated relationship patterns
About Stella
Stella Hendricks welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, sleep problems or relationship strain. She is a counsellor with five years of experience who aims to make the first steps feel manageable and straightforward. She uses a psychodynamic outlook to help people notice repeated patterns that affect how they think and act.
That often means gently tracing recurring feelings and early experiences so clients can understand why some reactions persist.
Background and approach
The focus is on helping people make practical changes once patterns are clearer. Stella creates a calm, open space where people can be honest about painful or confusing things. Sessions move at the client’s pace and concentrate on what matters most right now.
The tone is warm and non-judgemental, with attention to what a person needs in the moment. Alongside psychodynamic work, Stella draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds shape adult relationships. This can support people dealing with intimacy concerns, commitment worries, codependency and related issues.
The two approaches are used together to link feelings, past experiences and current behaviour. She has worked with a wide range of concerns, including depression, grief, trauma and abuse, anger, eating and substance-related issues, career and parenting stresses, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are offered in English and Stella accepts international clients who prefer remote appointments.
Reaching out for help is often difficult, and Stella aims to make that step feel supported and practical. She encourages people to begin with a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions that suit their life.
What Stella works with
How Stella works
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Sessions & fees
How attachment and psychodynamic work translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and patterns. It helps people notice how closeness and separation feel now and what gets in the way of stable connections, which is useful for intimacy, commitment and communication problems.Psychodynamic Therapy focuses on recurring thoughts, feelings and behaviours that come from past experiences. It supports people who want to understand why they react in certain ways and to shift long-standing patterns that cause distress or conflict.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Stella will discuss goals and preferences with each person and decide together which elements to use. That collaborative conversation helps tailor sessions so they feel relevant and practical.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video is useful when visual connection helps the conversation, phone calls are handy when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other demands while still working through attachment and psychodynamic themes.
| 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
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
