Stephen (Steve) Rudkin
Gentle, experienced counsellor for complex issues
About Stephen
Stephen (Steve) Rudkin is a counsellor with 26 years of experience. He works in person-centred and psychodynamic ways and brings a calm, steady approach to sessions. He aims to help people who are dealing with anxiety, stress, addiction, relationship pain and grief.
Steve has worked across health, social care, education and supported settings. His background includes drug and alcohol services, mental health work, advocacy, nursing, domestic abuse support and child and family services.
Background and approach
That range helps him understand many life situations and the practical problems people face. He offers both short-term and longer-term counselling. Sessions are shaped around the individual, using skills and techniques from different therapies to fit the person’s needs.
He will listen, reflect and help clients notice patterns that might be causing distress. When helpful, he explores past experiences and attachment patterns to understand present difficulties. He also uses mindfulness-based ideas to support coping and emotional regulation.
The focus is on finding ways forward that feel sustainable. Steve aims to create a steady, non-judgemental space where people can talk things through. He works with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, depression, intimacy issues, parenting strains, sexual health matters, anger and self-harm.
Practical care and emotional understanding are woven together in his practice. Clients may expect sessions that balance listening with gentle challenge and practical suggestions. He offers individual support tailored to each person’s circumstances and goals.
What Stephen works with
How Stephen works
Listed by Stephen among the ways they work.
Listed by Stephen among the ways they work.
Listed by Stephen among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How Steve’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s viewpoint. The therapist follows the client’s pace and helps them find their own solutions, which can suit worries about relationships, self-esteem and life changes.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and improve focus. These practices are useful for anxiety, stress and coping with cravings or urges related to addiction.
Psychodynamic Therapy pays attention to past experiences and repeated patterns that shape current feelings. It can help when long-standing relationship issues, attachment problems or unresolved grief keep reoccurring.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Steve will help work out which methods fit the problems, goals and preferences of the person in front of him. He adjusts the balance of listening, reflection and practical work as therapy progresses.
Online sessions offer practical benefits through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a calmer audio-only check-in is preferred, and messaging or live chat suit shorter check-ins or people who find writing easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caring duties and travel.
| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
