Anna Gardner
Practical therapy for stress and relationships
About Anna
Anna Gardner helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression. She speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps easier for someone who is worried or overwhelmed. Anna is identified by her BACP credential, which stands for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Her style is warm and attentive. She listens to what clients say and notices what they do not say.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on building trust and on practical ways to manage difficult feelings and situations. Anna has five years of clinical experience. During that time she has worked with issues such as attachment and abandonment, caregiver stress, chronic pain and illness, and communication problems.
She also supports people facing substance misuse, infidelity, isolation, guilt, and questions about life purpose or midlife change. Therapy with Anna draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques shaped to each person. She adapts methods to suit the immediate problem and the person’s preferences.
Sessions aim to be straightforward and focused on what helps in daily life. People can expect gentle challenge alongside practical tools. Work may include exploring past patterns, improving communication, and developing new coping strategies for mood, grief, or trauma.
Anna is based in the United Kingdom and works in English only.
What Anna works with
Sessions & fees
Approaches that suit online therapy
Anna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques adapted for online work. One approach focuses on understanding attachment and abandonment patterns to help people improve relationships and reduce anxiety; this looks at how past experiences shape present reactions and teaches new ways of relating. Another method targets practical coping skills for stress, depression, and grief, using step-by-step strategies to manage mood, reduce overwhelm, and handle difficult memories.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, then try methods that fit the person’s needs. Work is collaborative and may change as progress is made to ensure the right balance of understanding and practical change.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to access therapy. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and live chat or text messaging lets people keep a therapeutic thread between sessions or work at a gentler pace. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, care duties, or mobility limitations while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
| 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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
