Thomas Beardmore
Gentle, human-centred therapy for life's challenges
About Thomas
Thomas Beardmore offers support for people coping with anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, low self-esteem, stress, grief and addiction. He also helps with parenting concerns, sleep and eating problems, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and the impact of trauma and abuse. Thomas is non-binary and works from a humanistic perspective that aims to understand each person’s experience.
Thomas takes a straightforward, compassionate approach in sessions. He listens first and follows the pace a person needs.
Background and approach
He offers honest reflections and gently challenges unhelpful patterns so people can try new ways of living and relating. He uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. He draws on client-centred methods to keep the sessions person-led and respectful.
Cognitive behavioural techniques are used when practical steps and thought-pattern work will help reduce distress. Emotionally-focused and existential ideas influence how he addresses intimacy, meaning and difficult feelings. These approaches help people understand their emotional responses and consider how they want to live their life.
Thomas has 13 years of professional experience and holds membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. He has worked across health care, higher education, the third sector and in independent practice, and adapts how he works to each person’s needs. People meet him online through video calls, phone, live chat or messaging.
He welcomes international clients and supports sessions in English.
What Thomas works with
How Thomas works
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Sessions & fees
How these approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect current trust, closeness and conflict. Online sessions allow people to reflect on these patterns and practice new ways of relating in real time. Client-centred therapy keeps the person at the centre, with the counsellor following your lead and offering empathetic listening and reflection to help clarify feelings and choices. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and is useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep or eating problems. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Thomas will collaborate with each person to agree what methods to try, based on their goals, preferences and what emerges in early sessions. He adapts his mix of attachment, client-centred and CBT ideas so therapy fits the individual rather than forcing a single model. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, offering flexibility around work, travel and childcare. Video is useful for face-to-face interaction and emotion-focused work, while phone sessions can fit short check-ins or times with lower bandwidth. Messaging and live chat make it easier to keep contact between sessions or to work through small steps over days rather than waiting for the next appointment.| 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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- 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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
