Theresa Cadd
Compassionate counsellor focused on practical change
About Theresa
Theresa Cadd is a counsellor based in Swansea, South Wales. She holds BACP and NCPS credentials and has practised for five years. Theresa offers a calm, patient style to help people through difficult periods in life.
Theresa uses several well known counselling methods to match the person she is working with. She draws on client-centred work to focus on each person’s experience and on cognitive behavioural ideas for practical ways to change patterns of thinking and behaviour.
Background and approach
She also uses psychodynamic thinking to look at how past relationships can shape current feelings. Her background includes time working for MIND, the mental health charity, and several years providing counselling in education. Those roles helped her work with many different concerns and adapt her approach to fit each person’s situation.
Theresa now runs a independent practice and continues professional development through training and workshops. People contact Theresa for stress, anxiety, grief and depression, relationship and family difficulties, addictions, trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, career concerns, bipolar and coping with life changes.
She also pays attention to attachment issues, abandonment, blended family problems, body image, codependency and related concerns. Theresa aims to make sessions straightforward and practical. She listens without judgement and works collaboratively to set goals.
The work often includes coping strategies, communication skills, mindfulness exercises and cognitive-behavioural techniques to support change.
What Theresa works with
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Sessions & fees
How Theresa’s approaches work online
Theresa draws on client-centred counselling to prioritise the person’s experience and choices. This approach focuses on listening, empathy and reflecting what matters most to the client, which helps people feel heard and begin to trust the process.She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy, which breaks down problems into thoughts, feelings and behaviours. CBT offers practical exercises and tools to change unhelpful thinking patterns and develop new coping skills, helpful for anxiety, low mood and sleep or eating difficulties.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Theresa will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and then shape the sessions together. This collaborative way means the plan can change as progress is made.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week. Video calls let you see facial expressions and body language, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a simpler check-in, and live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter updates or times when writing feels easier. These options give flexibility while keeping the focus on getting useful, practical help.
| 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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
