Andrea Witt, NCPS

Counsellor and NCPS member with eight years' experience, Andrea Witt works in the United Kingdom supporting people with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, stress, sleep problems, parenting issues and postnatal difficulties. She lists addictions, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, eating issues, anger, career and coping with life changes among her areas of focus. Sessions are delivered in English and international clients are accepted.

Andrea trained in cognitive behavioural approaches and uses those methods alongside acceptance and commitment, mindfulness and solution-focused ideas. She describes her work as practical and goal-focused while also attending to difficult emotions that come up around birth and early parenthood. Her background includes personal experience of postnatal anxiety, which shaped her decision to concentrate on this area.

In sessions she works with thoughts, behaviours and patterns that contribute to distress. That can involve setting clear goals, trying specific exercises between meetings and looking at what matters to each person now. Andrea also draws on client-centred principles to listen and respond to what someone brings to the room.

People often come for help with intrusive thoughts, obsessive worries, low mood after childbirth or difficulties adjusting to parenting. She also supports those facing divorce, fertility problems, guilt and shame, or midlife concerns. Her practice includes work on communication, control issues and compulsions when these are present.

Practical steps are central. Andrea uses short-term strategies and longer conversations where needed. She asks about what a person hopes to change, and plans sessions around those aims. To begin, follow the directory steps to match and arrange an initial appointment.

Therapeutic approaches and online counselling