Patricia Foster, BACP

Patricia Foster is a counsellor and member of the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) with 20 years of experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, low self-esteem and depression. She also supports people dealing with relationship and family problems, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, bipolar disorder, ADHD and other life changes.

Her background includes work with people affected by physical trauma and emotional abuse. She trained in approaches relevant to addiction and child counselling and has spent many years helping people manage difficult emotions and behaviour patterns. Patricia draws on a combination of practical talking therapies to address immediate problems and longer-standing patterns.

In sessions she uses client-centred principles alongside cognitive behavioural ideas and emotion-focused techniques. She also uses attachment-based perspectives and some skills from dialectical behaviour approaches. That combination lets her work on thoughts, feelings and relationship patterns together.

Patricia describes the way she works as collaborative and goal-focused. She talks things through with people, looks at patterns that maintain difficulties, and practises small skills that can change day-to-day coping. Sessions tend to focus on clear, manageable steps rather than abstract theory.

People who come to her often want help with changing behaviours, improving communication, managing mood swings and reducing anxiety. She accepts people from the UK and international clients and runs work aimed at practical change over time.

How Patricia's approaches work online