Anna Richardson, BACP

Anna Richardson is a counsellor who draws on five years' clinical experience to help people facing stress, anxiety and life changes. She is a BACP member, which means she follows the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy's standards. Anna works in English and Russian and offers sessions in the United Kingdom.

Her background includes a Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling, which shapes how she listens and asks questions. She pays attention to how past experiences and repeated patterns affect feelings and choices today. This often helps people understand problems with relationships, self‑esteem and intimacy-related issues.

Anna uses attachment-based ideas alongside psychodynamic work to look at how early bonds and current relationships influence emotions. In practical terms she helps people talk through anger, grief, addictions and career stress, and addresses concerns such as abandonment, control issues and communication problems.

She has contributed to local mental health charities and has experience working with people affected by trauma and PTSD in care settings. That community work informs her approach to complex emotional issues and caregiver stress.

Sessions tend to be conversational and reflective. Anna aims to create a calm space where people can notice patterns, try new ways of relating and build clearer choices for the future.

Attachment and Psychodynamic Work Online

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape how people connect now. It helps with trust, intimacy problems, abandonment fears and patterns that repeat in relationships. Psychodynamic Therapy focuses on unconscious patterns and past experiences that influence feelings today; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, grief and longstanding relationship difficulties.

Finding the right way of working is part of the therapy. Anna will talk with each person about their needs and goals and will shape the approach collaboratively. Together they decide whether to focus more on attachment concerns or on psychodynamic themes and how that fits the person's priorities.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for a fuller conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat can suit short check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work and family life and to keep regular contact when in-person sessions are difficult.