Bernadette Small

Bernadette Small is a counsellor registered with NCPS in the United Kingdom and has three years of professional experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem and career-related coaching concerns, including workplace challenges and motivation. She also supports people dealing with attachment issues, caregiver stress, communication and family problems, guilt and shame, loneliness, life purpose questions and midlife transitions.

Her sessions focus on practical conversation and listening. She helps people talk through what feels overwhelming and untangle decisions about work and life direction. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address trauma responses and persistent anxiety, and she applies coaching skills where clients want clearer goals or workplace strategies.

Bernadette’s background includes time as a supervised student and work as a qualified therapist in the UK. She draws on that clinical experience when helping people manage grief, post-traumatic stress, or self-harm thoughts, keeping the work straightforward and task-focused when needed. She aims to help clients build skills for daily life and for workplace challenges.

Sessions are conducted in English. International clients are not currently accepted. Costs vary by location, and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.

To start, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session through the See online therapy options button. This initial step helps match a person to the right session type and scheduling window.

How evidence-based techniques translate to online sessions

She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help with anxiety, trauma and workplace stress. Cognitive approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking to reduce anxiety and improve decision-making. Trauma-informed methods concentrate on pacing, grounding skills and gradual processing so distressing memories become more manageable.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will discuss options with each client and decide together which techniques suit the person's current needs and goals. This collaborative planning means therapy can shift as priorities change, for example moving from stabilisation to goal-focused coaching when that is useful.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments around work and family life, remove travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Some formats also reduce the need to be on camera or to use high bandwidth, which can help on busy days. Registered or accredited professionals and therapists use online sessions to make therapy more practical for everyday schedules.