Blandine Cummins, BACP

Blandine Cummins offers calm, non-judgemental support for people facing relationship strain, low self-esteem, anxiety, depression and major life changes. She greets clients in English or French and aims to make the first steps easier for anyone unsure about counselling. Blandine uses a warm, person-centred style to help people feel heard and noticed. She trained in counselling and psychology and brings four years of professional experience working with a range of concerns from grief and trauma to career uncertainty and addiction-related issues. Blandine helps people name what matters to them and notice patterns that make life harder. Sessions focus on the client’s experience and goals. Conversations are guided by empathy and respect rather than instruction. The therapist encourages reflection so people can try out new responses and make different choices in their relationships and daily life. Blandine also works with concerns such as body image, communication problems, loneliness and immigration-related stress. She describes therapy as a space to safely examine difficult feelings and consider small, practical changes that can improve wellbeing over time. People can expect flexibility in length and focus of work, with both shorter-term and open-ended options discussed together. Blandine aims to support each person’s journey toward greater clarity, self-acceptance and more satisfying connections.

Person-centred care and online access

Person-centred therapy focuses on the person's own experience. The counsellor offers attentive, non-judgemental listening and reflects what the client says so they can better understand themselves. This approach helps with issues like low self-esteem, relationship difficulties, anxiety and grief by encouraging self-awareness and personal choice.

In practice Blandine uses client-centred work to prioritise each person's values and goals. She listens for what matters most and helps clients decide the pace and focus of sessions. Finding the right approach is collaborative - the therapist and client will try ways of working together and adjust them based on what feels helpful.

Online therapy here is available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful when face-to-face conversation matters, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins and messaging supports shorter reflections between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family or travel and to keep contact between sessions if that helps progress.