Anthony Horsburgh, BACP

Anthony Horsburgh helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, low mood and the effects of trauma and abuse. He also supports people with relationship and family difficulties, addiction concerns, grief and issues around gender and sexuality. Anthony works with practical problems like sleeping difficulties, parenting strain and career uncertainty too.

He takes a respectful, down-to-earth approach. Anthony treats the person as the expert in their own life and looks for the strengths they already have. Sessions aim to be straightforward and goal-focused while also making space to talk about painful feelings.

Anthony combines different ways of working to suit each person. He uses client-centred ideas to follow what matters to the client, cognitive behavioural tools to spot unhelpful thinking patterns, and solution-focused techniques to build small, practical steps forward. He also draws on trauma-focused work for people who have been harmed or feel stuck by past events.

He holds BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and has eight years of professional experience in the UK. That background has included helping people with attachment concerns, body image struggles, dissociation and recovery from domestic or relationship-related harm.

Sessions are offered in English and are delivered online by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and then appointments are scheduled to suit both client and therapist availability.

Therapeutic approaches for online work

Anthony uses client-centred therapy to follow what matters to the client and to build a trusting working relationship. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting and helping people identify their own goals and solutions. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, offers practical techniques to spot patterns of thinking and behaviour that keep problems going and to try small experiments to change them.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Anthony will discuss different options and together the client and therapist decide what fits best based on the person’s needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative planning means sessions can change over time as new priorities emerge.

Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls let people have a fuller face-to-face style of session, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a quicker check-in, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats can make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life or other commitments while keeping the focus on achievable steps and emotional support.