Schiarlene Williams, NCPS

Schiarlene Williams has practised as a counsellor in the United Kingdom for seven years. She holds NCPS and brings steady, experience-based support to people facing stress, anxiety and depression. She creates a calm space where clients can speak openly without feeling judged. Taking the first step towards change is hard, and she aims to make that step feel manageable.

In sessions she uses clear, practical techniques to help people cope with life changes. She draws on cognitive behavioural therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and try different responses. Attachment-based work and emotionally focused ideas help people understand relationship patterns and rebuild trust in close connections.

She also offers hypnotherapy and client-centred listening when people need a gentler pace. That combination lets her tailor sessions to how each person prefers to work. Typical issues she supports include family and parenting stress, relationship strain, grief, anger and self-esteem struggles.

Schiarlene pays attention to experiences of trauma, abuse and sexual assault, and she works with the effects those events can have on everyday life. Other areas she addresses are control issues, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and nurturing self-love. Her approach aims to be practical, direct and compassionate.

People meet her for single sessions or ongoing work depending on their goals. She works with international clients in English and uses a mix of conversational therapy and structured techniques to help people move forward.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions

Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current connections. In practice this means talking about past and present relationship moments to spot repeating patterns and try new ways of relating, which can help with intimacy issues and attachment concerns.

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts, feelings and actions that keep problems going. Online CBT often involves short exercises between sessions and clear steps to test new behaviours, which can be useful for anxiety, low mood and stress management.

She takes a collaborative approach to choosing methods. The therapist will listen to goals, try different techniques and adjust the approach together with the client until it fits. Finding the right mix is part of the therapeutic process rather than a one-off decision.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow visual cues and a fuller conversational feel, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into work, caring responsibilities or travel.