Oliver Chidwick
Practical, down-to-earth counselling for everyday life
About Oliver
Oliver Chidwick is a counsellor who aims to make it easier to take the first step. He speaks plainly and listens closely so people can talk about stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, trauma and relationship concerns without feeling judged. Oliver uses a calm, steady approach to help people find small, workable changes that fit their life.
He has eight years of professional experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Background and approach
That background includes supporting people dealing with depression, bipolar difficulties, ADHD and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. He also focuses on work and career strain, parenting pressures and challenges like chronic illness and body image. Oliver draws on several practical therapy methods to suit different needs.
He often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for patterns of worry, mood or unhelpful behaviours. He also uses Client-Centred and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy ideas to build emotional skills and tolerance. Sessions are conversational and down to earth.
Oliver helps clients set simple goals, try out new ways of coping and review what is working. He aims to make therapy useful in day-to-day life rather than full of jargon. People who come to him usually want support with a clear problem and steps to move forward.
Oliver accepts international clients and offers a range of remote session formats to fit different schedules and needs.
What Oliver works with
How Oliver works
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Sessions & fees
How clinical approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, helps people notice what matters most to them and take small action steps towards those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and offers practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns such as avoidance or compulsive habits. It often helps with anxiety, depression and insomnia. Client-Centred Therapy puts the person at the heart of the work and relies on empathy and non-judgemental listening to help someone feel understood and find their own solutions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn't helped before, then try a way of working and adjust as needed. This collaborative process means methods are adapted to the person's needs rather than fixed in advance.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video gives face-to-face contact and can suit deeper conversations, phone calls use less bandwidth and can be good for a shorter check-in, while live chat or messaging lets people reflect in writing and fit therapy around a busy day. These options make it easier to schedule sessions across time zones and when someone needs flexibility.
| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- 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
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
