Tracie Richards
Practical, compassionate support for stress and trauma
About Tracie
Tracie Richards helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious or stuck in relationships and work. She is a counsellor who offers straightforward, compassionate support for trauma, abuse and career concerns. Tracie uses clear, practical steps so people can begin to feel more able to cope.
Tracie works in a style that aims to make conversations easy to follow. She listens first and then helps people notice patterns in how they react and relate.
Background and approach
Her background includes 15 years working in therapeutic roles in the United Kingdom, and she is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She draws on several well-known approaches, including attachment-based work, client-centred methods and cognitive behavioural techniques. Tracie also uses eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing, and motivational interviewing where these fit a person’s goals.
These tools are used to manage anxiety, process difficult memories and change unhelpful thinking or behaviour. Sessions aim to be practical and collaborative. Tracie supports people to set clear goals and tries out small changes between meetings.
She also helps people explore feelings of abandonment, codependency, guilt and shame, and issues such as dissociation and control struggles. People meet Tracie online by video, phone, live chat or messaging. She works in English and sees people who are based in the United Kingdom.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled according to availability.
What Tracie works with
How Tracie works
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Sessions & fees
How Tracie’s approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early connections shape current relationships and emotional responses. In online sessions this can help someone understand patterns of trust, fear of abandonment and intense reactions in close relationships. Client-centred therapy focuses on non-judgemental listening and helping people find their own solutions; it is helpful for exploring feelings and building self-trust. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, addresses unhelpful thoughts and behaviours with practical exercises that can reduce anxiety and improve coping.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk about goals and try different ways of working to see what helps most. Together they set aims, review progress and adjust methods so the work fits the person’s needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging lets someone reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work and family life, and to continue therapy when travel or time are barriers.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
