Siobhan Hopkins, BACP

Siobhan Hopkins is a counsellor who aims to make early steps into therapy feel manageable. She meets people with relationship strain, grief, parenting pressures, anxiety, stress and issues around intimacy and addiction. She also offers support for career change, compassion fatigue and coping with life transitions. Siobhan is BACP registered, and she works in English with people from the UK and beyond.

Sessions focus on understanding what has happened and how it shapes current patterns. Siobhan uses a person-centred stance so people can lead what matters most to them. She draws on attachment ideas to look at relationship patterns and on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques to help with unhelpful thinking and coping strategies.

Her practice includes work with trauma and abuse, bereavement, spiritual and religious concerns, and family-related stress such as blended family challenges, divorce and caregiver strain. She also supports people facing abandonment issues, codependency and communication or control difficulties.

Siobhan trained at Newman University in Birmingham and has lived and worked in the UK, Ireland and the USA. She brings four years of professional experience and an integrative approach that blends Gestalt, humanistic and psychodynamic influences around a person-centred core.

She asks people to take things at their pace and aims for sessions that are practical and humane. To begin, clients use the continue button on this profile, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

How therapy approaches shape online work

Siobhan uses a person-centred way of working that places the client's experience first and allows a conversation to follow what matters most. This approach helps when someone needs to tell their story and be heard without pressure. Attachment-based ideas are used to look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and feelings, which can help when trust, jealousy or intimacy problems arise.

She also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy methods to spot unhelpful thoughts and habits and to develop practical steps for coping with anxiety, stress or low mood. Together these approaches offer both understanding and tools to manage day-to-day challenges. Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process; the therapist will discuss goals and preferences and adjust methods as therapy progresses.

The original profile indicates online sessions; please confirm the exact session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments around family life, work and travel. It can also allow a shorter check-in when needed, or avoid the need to travel to an appointment, helping therapy to slot into a busy routine.