Sunshine Goodfellow, BACP

Sunshine Goodfellow is a counsellor with 13 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain and other life changes. She works with individuals on matters such as trauma and abuse, grief, addiction, and intimacy-related concerns. Sunshine also supports those coping with sleep problems, parenting pressures, anger, self-esteem issues and career stress. She accepts international clients and works in English.

Sunshine uses an approach that centres on helping people reconnect with themselves. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. Client-centred methods guide sessions so the person’s priorities lead the work. She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help change thoughts and habits that cause distress.

Her background includes study at Anglia Ruskin University and postgraduate work in art and play therapy at the University of Cambridge. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She has also contributed to community work as a school governor and youth leader.

In sessions Sunshine aims for straightforward, practical steps alongside deeper reflection. She invites people to try small daily practices that build balance and presence. The work often includes talking through patterns, noticing moments that trigger old wounds, and testing new ways of relating to oneself and others.

People who want a supportive, relational style often find her way of working helpful. She encourages collaboration about goals and pace. To begin, clients follow the site sign-up and matching process and then arrange sessions based on the schedule offered.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Sunshine uses attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current ways of relating. This helps when trust, abandonment or commitment issues keep repeating in adult life. She also works in a client-centred way, offering open listening and helping the person set the agenda for each session so their priorities guide the work.

She draws on cognitive behavioural ideas when helping people change thoughts and habits that fuel anxiety, low mood or sleep disruption. CBT-style work often includes practical tasks between sessions, such as testing new behaviours or noting thought patterns to review together.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Sunshine treats this as a collaborative process and will help clients decide which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences. That choice can change over time as people try different ways of working and see what helps.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm which formats are available before booking since the profile does not list specific session types. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy around daily life, save travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when that suits a busy schedule. It can also support deeper reflective work using practical exercises and between-session tasks adapted for remote meetings.