Zoe Silk
Practical, strengths-based therapy for complex issues
About Zoe
Zoe Silk supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship problems and the effects of trauma and abuse. She also helps with low self-esteem, grief, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting pressures, anger, career uncertainty, bipolar and depression, and managing life changes. Zoe works with concerns such as ADHD, compassion fatigue and coaching needs.
She is identified as NCPS, which indicates a professional registration with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society.
Background and approach
Zoe uses a collaborative style that treats each person as an expert in their own life. Sessions aim to build on existing strengths and make practical changes that feel manageable. She keeps conversation direct and down to earth, helping people notice patterns and try small shifts that can reduce distress.
Her background includes 13 years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom. That experience spans helping people with attachment and abandonment issues, adoption and foster care concerns, autism and Asperger Syndrome, and a range of personality and relationship difficulties. Zoe also works with those facing chronic illness, cancer, caregiving stress and body image struggles.
Therapeutic work draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centred practice, psychodynamic thinking, trauma-focused methods and Internal Family Systems concepts. In practice this means paying attention to early relationships, current patterns, trauma responses and internal parts that can feel at odds with one another. People can expect a respectful, steady approach that focuses on clear aims.
Zoe encourages practical steps alongside reflection, and helps people set goals that fit their life and commitments.
What Zoe works with
How Zoe works
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Sessions & fees
How Zoe's approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape how people feel and connect now. It helps when patterns from childhood make current relationships feel difficult or when abandonment and attachment worries are prominent.Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on the impact of past harm and teaches ways to reduce trauma-driven reactions. It is useful for people dealing with abuse, overwhelming memories or strong emotional responses linked to past events.
Internal Family Systems helps people notice the different 'parts' inside them that hold fears, anger or self-criticism and to relate to those parts with curiosity. This approach can ease inner conflict and support clearer decision-making.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, symptoms and preferences, then shape the therapy together. That collaborative process helps match methods to what the person needs now.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and reading non-verbal signals. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a less visual check-in suits someone. Live chat and text-based messaging let people fit short check-ins into a busy day and keep a written record of reflections. Overall, these formats make it easier to attend regularly and keep progress moving forward.
| 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
- 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
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
