Anna Richardson, BACP

Anna Richardson is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and holds a Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling, a formal qualification that informs her therapeutic work and focus on unconscious patterns. She offers a calm, non-judgmental space where clients can gently explore how past experiences, unspoken thoughts, and deep-rooted patterns shape current feelings and behaviours. Together with clients she aims to identify emotional conflicts and unresolved issues that may underlie anxiety, depression or a sense of disconnection.

Her practice draws on psychodynamic training alongside attention to attachment-related concerns, which allows her to address difficulties such as abandonment, relationship strain, caregiver stress and intimacy-related challenges. Anna works with a broad range of issues including stress, self-esteem, grief, addictions, family and parenting concerns, trauma and abuse, career worries and questions of life purpose.

Alongside her private practice, Anna contributes to the community through charity work with Devon Mind and previously with HCC, London's oldest mental health charity. She has experience supporting clients with PTSD in private sector care homes and provides therapy in both English and Russian, tailoring support to each person’s needs and goals.

Attachment and Psychodynamic Support Online

Anna Richardson works from psychodynamic and attachment-informed perspectives to help clients explore patterns that affect their relationships and emotional wellbeing. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds and attachment styles shape current relationships and sense of safety - it is often helpful for issues like abandonment, intimacy struggles and communication problems. Psychodynamic Therapy looks at underlying feelings, recurring patterns and the influence of past experiences; it can support people dealing with anxiety, depression, grief and unresolved emotional conflicts.

Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. Anna will work with each person to understand their needs, goals and preferences, and together they will choose or adapt methods that feel most helpful for the client’s situation and pace.

Online therapy with Anna is available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and life circumstances. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care around work, family and other commitments, and allow clients to access therapy from home or elsewhere when in-person meetings are not practical.