Stephanie Cartwright, BACP

Stephanie Cartwright is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She brings eight years of experience helping people who want to make a real change in their lives. Her work focuses on practical steps that can be used between sessions to create steady progress. Stephanie uses straightforward methods that help clients feel more in control and focused.

She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties. She also helps with grief and bereavement, intimacy-related concerns, self-esteem and coping with life changes. Her background includes hospice work, where she supported people with terminal and non-terminal diagnoses and their carers as they adjusted to loss and changing roles.

Sessions are goal-oriented and shaped around what matters most to each person. Stephanie draws on person-centred listening to understand priorities, and then adds cognitive-behavioural and solution-focused techniques to build practical skills. Clients often leave with simple tasks or reflections to try between sessions so progress can be measured.

She pays attention to emotional, mental and physical wellbeing together, viewing them as part of an interconnected whole. That means conversations can include thoughts, feelings, daily routines and ways to manage stress in everyday life. The aim is to help people start using their strengths more consistently.

Stephanie works with a broad range of concerns including eating and sleeping issues, parenting strains, career challenges, compassion fatigue and midlife questions. She also offers support around attachment, abandonment and end-of-life matters, tailoring the approach to each person’s situation.

How Stephanie’s approaches work online

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s view. The therapist reflects what matters most and helps someone find their own answers rather than giving directions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It teaches straightforward techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking and build small practical habits that reduce anxiety or low mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Stephanie will discuss options with each person and together they will choose the methods that best match the client’s needs, goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process so plans can be adjusted as progress is made.

Online sessions include video calls, phone appointments, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when helpful, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and messaging support shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around busy lives and to keep momentum between sessions.