Anna Channon, BACP

Anna Channon is a counsellor with a degree in Psychotherapeutic Counselling and four years of client work. She offers a calm, relational style and aims to help people who feel disconnected from themselves or their bodies. Sessions are practical and grounded, often using breath work, movement and creative activities when helpful.

Her practice focuses on common life stresses such as anxiety, depression and grief. She also supports people coping with trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping difficulties, and the emotional impact of illness or caregiving. Career worries, relationship strain and low self-esteem are also areas she addresses.

Anna combines an interest in how the body and mind interact with psychodynamic ideas about past experience and attachment patterns. She uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current feelings and behaviours. Client-Centred approaches keep the person’s pace and priorities central to the work.

Trauma-Focused methods are used when people have been harmed and need care that recognises those experiences. Work may include breathing exercises and gentle movement to help people reconnect with bodily signals. Creativity is invited rather than required - no artistic skill is necessary.

Sessions are offered in English and can be held online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. Anna works with individual adults on short and medium-term goals and helps them build clearer ways of coping with life changes and difficult feelings.

How Anna's approaches work online

Anna uses Attachment-Based Therapy to explore how early relationships affect current patterns. This approach looks at trust, closeness and emotional responses to help people understand recurring difficulties in relationships.

She also uses Client-Centred Therapy which keeps the person's experience at the heart of each session. The counsellor follows the client's pace, offering acceptance and reflective listening so people feel heard and can make their own decisions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Anna will discuss options with each person and decide together what feels helpful based on goals and preferences. That collaborative process means methods can be adjusted as therapy progresses.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversational work and feeling visually connected. Phone sessions can be easier when lower bandwidth is needed or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging suit brief reflections, ongoing notes between sessions, or people who prefer typed communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity when in-person meetings are difficult.