Christopher Reed

Therapeutic approaches you can use online

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding. The therapist offers an accepting space and follows the person’s pace so they can talk through thoughts and feelings and find their own solutions. It is useful for issues like low self-esteem, relationship worries and transitions.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions interact. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful patterns and reduce anxiety, panic or low mood. This approach often includes homework between sessions to build new habits.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, helps people process distressing memories that continue to cause strong emotional or physical reactions. It aims to lessen the intensity of those memories so they have less impact on daily life.

Finding the right method is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and the nature of the difficulties to agree which approaches to try. This is a collaborative process and plans can be adjusted as progress is made.

Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls let people read visual cues and have a face-to-face feel. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins, short coaching-style support or for people who find writing easier than speaking. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family and daily life.