John Edgar
Experienced BACP counsellor for life changes
About John
John Edgar is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with ten years of experience in mental health settings. He supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, career strain, and concerns linked to identity and relationships. He takes a respectful and non-judgemental approach and adapts the pace to each person.
He has worked in a variety of settings including schools, prisons and cancer charities. That range has given him practical experience helping people cope with health problems, chronic illness, work pressures and major life changes.
Background and approach
He also supports those facing issues such as anger, self-esteem, parenting challenges, and compassion fatigue. In sessions he focuses on listening first and understanding what matters most to the person in front of him. He tailors each conversation rather than following a fixed script.
Practical steps and coaching are used where helpful alongside time to process feelings. People often come to him for help with attachment and abandonment concerns, body image, isolation and loneliness, or finding purpose after loss. He also works with issues around jealousy, guilt and shame, and the impacts of domestic violence and disasters.
John offers support for LGBT matters and men’s issues, and helps people living with cancer, chronic pain or disability to manage emotional strain. He welcomes international clients and runs sessions in English.
What John works with
Sessions & fees
Therapy approaches and online options
John uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical steps and emotional understanding. One common approach involves helping people process traumatic or painful events by breaking worries into smaller, manageable pieces and developing coping strategies to reduce overwhelm. This helps with anxiety, trauma and abuse, and intense stress reactions.Another strand of his work blends supportive counselling with coaching. That means sessions combine space to talk through feelings with goal-focused activities, such as planning career changes, improving relationships, or building routines for managing long-term illness or fatigue.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. He will talk through options with the person and decide collaboratively which techniques to try first, adjusting plans as needs and goals become clearer.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different lives. Video is useful when face-to-face conversation matters, phone works well for a shorter check-in or if bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick exchanges, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and health commitments while keeping the focus on progress and practical support.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
