Shirley Patterson, BACP

Shirley Patterson is a BACP-registered counsellor who works with adults in the United Kingdom and brings six years of professional experience to her practice. She focuses on helping people navigate grief and loss, build self-esteem and confidence, manage career-related difficulties, and cope with depression and major life changes. Her practice emphasizes one-to-one, person-centred work, where the client directs the pace and focus of each session and Shirley provides empathic listening and reflective responses to support insight and change.

Shirley creates an open, non-judgmental space where feelings and thoughts can be explored honestly, and she checks in to ensure she has understood the client’s experience. She believes that life events and crises can affect anyone, and that the way people cope with successive challenges often increases stress. Her role is to help clients discover their own solutions and practical ways to manage the difficulties they face.

Shirley offers a warm, respectful approach and aims to empower clients to take the first steps toward a more fulfilling life. She encourages those ready to make a change to reach out and begin a collaborative process of exploration and growth.

Client-Centred Care Delivered Online

Client-centred therapy places the client at the heart of the process, with an emphasis on empathic listening, unconditional positive regard, and helping the individual lead conversations about what matters most to them. This approach supports people working through grief, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions by creating space to explore feelings and identify personal solutions.

In practice, Shirley works collaboratively with each person to find the right fit of techniques and focus. She will listen, reflect, and adapt sessions based on the client’s needs, goals, and preferences, so the therapeutic approach evolves as the relationship develops and progress is made.

Online therapy options - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to arrange sessions around work, family, and other commitments. These formats offer flexibility and accessibility, allowing licensed professionals and therapists to provide consistent support when in-person meetings are not possible, and enabling clients to engage in therapy from locations that suit them.