Angela Neary
Helping people through trauma and change
About Angela
Angela Neary supports people dealing with addiction, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, stress and anxiety. She also helps with grief, intimacy concerns, eating issues, parenting strain, anger, career problems and coping with big life changes. Angela works with a wide range of other difficulties including attachment and communication problems, body image and chronic illness challenges.
Angela brings 20 years of experience as a counsellor and mental health improvement officer in the United Kingdom.
Background and approach
She qualified as a person-centred counsellor in 2005 and has worked alongside social care and social work teams. That background means she is used to working with many kinds of difficulties and practical life situations. Her style is warm, open and interactive.
Sessions are conversational and focused on the person in front of her rather than fitting someone to a label. Angela listens, asks questions and helps people notice patterns that might be holding them back. Her approach blends client-centred ways of working with cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness.
She also draws on psychodynamic ideas and solution-focused steps when these suit a person’s needs. The aim is a plan tailored to each person’s situation and goals. People who choose Angela can expect gentle challenge alongside practical tools.
She supports people to find their own answers and to try small changes that build over time. If someone is ready to take a step, Angela offers straightforward support and steady guidance.
What Angela works with
How Angela works
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Sessions & fees
How Angela’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centred work focuses on listening and following the person’s pace. It helps people feel understood and find their own solutions through open conversation and reflective questions.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behaviour that keep problems going. It uses short practical exercises and homework to test new ways of thinking and reduce anxiety, low mood or unhelpful habits.
Mindfulness therapy encourages simple attention skills such as noticing the breath, bodily sensations or thoughts without judgement. It can help with stress, emotion regulation and recurring worry by teaching grounding practices that are easy to use between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then choose or combine methods in collaboration with the person. This makes the plan flexible and responsive to changing needs.
Online sessions offer practical benefits for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when travel is difficult. Phone sessions and live chat can fit into a busy day or require less bandwidth. Text-based messaging supports brief check-ins and ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These options give people choice and make it easier to keep therapy consistent alongside work and family life.
| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- 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
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- 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
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
