Tricia Benson, BACP

Tricia Benson is a counsellor with eight years' experience supporting people through emotional challenges. She works in the United Kingdom and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Tricia aims to build a calm, respectful space where people can speak without judgment.

Her style is gentle and person-focused. Sessions move at the client's pace and follow the issues they bring. Tricia listens for patterns in current feelings and life events and gently looks at how earlier experiences might still affect someone today.

Tricia has worked alongside several UK charities, including Age Concern, AXA Health, MindWorks and the Wandsworth Bereavement Counselling Service. That background means she has supported people through grief, illness, caregiving stress and other major life transitions.

She helps with a wide range of concerns such as anxiety, depression, stress, relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, ADHD, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, parenting strain and self-esteem. Additional areas of focus include attachment issues, communication problems, guilt and shame, and end-of-life or hospice-related counselling.

Sessions use approaches rooted in attachment-based work, client-centred practice and psychodynamic ideas to understand feelings and relationships. Tricia aims to help people build clearer understanding of themselves, cope better day to day, and find practical steps forward.

If someone wants to begin, the first step is a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session when ready.

Approaches online and how they help

Attachment-based work pays attention to how early relationships affect current feelings and patterns. It can help people understand why they react strongly in close relationships and build different ways of relating. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and following the person's pace. It helps when someone needs a non-judgemental space to feel heard and to make their own choices. Psychodynamic therapy notices recurring themes and unconscious patterns that show up in daily life and relationships, which can be useful for longstanding worries or repeated conflicts.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy and it often takes a few conversations to settle on what fits best. The therapist will work collaboratively with the person to match methods to their goals, preferences and what feels most helpful in practice. Changes are planned together so sessions stay relevant to the person's needs.

Online sessions can be arranged by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that is helpful, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a short break. Live chat and messaging offer a flexible way to check in between appointments or for people who prefer typing. These options make it simpler to access therapy from different places and times, and to choose the format that best supports regular work on the issues that matter.