Anabelle Tidmarsh
Person-centred counselling focused on resilience
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About Anabelle
Anabelle Tidmarsh is a person-centred counsellor who aims to help people notice their own strengths and resilience. She holds an MSc in Counselling and Psychotherapy from Keele University, awarded with distinction, and she draws on her experience as a former client to inform her approach. She keeps sessions focused on the person in front of her.
Anabelle listens without judgement and helps clients say what matters most. Together they look at the patterns and defences that may have kept someone safe in the past but now feel limiting.
Background and approach
Her work has covered stress, anxiety, trauma and low self-esteem, among other concerns. She also includes simple relaxation and yoga-based body awareness into some sessions for people who have experienced trauma or who find somatic practices helpful. Anabelle likes to learn about a person’s support network and everyday strengths.
She asks what a client hopes to gain from counselling and treats each person as the expert on their life. The relationship in the room is used as the space to practise different ways of responding and to try out small, manageable changes. Outside of work she spends time with family and walks her springer spaniel Olly.
Her style is warm, steady and collaborative, and she works at a pace chosen together with each client.
At a glance
- Years practising
- 4
- Registered with
- BACP
- Registration number
- 390596
- Languages
- English
- Approaches include
- Client-Centered Therapy
- How sessions happen
- Online, by video, phone or messages
Details are as listed on Anabelle's public professional profile. You can check any number with the professional body.
What Anabelle works with
Everything Anabelle lists, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
Approaches Anabelle lists
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How Anabelle works online
Some clients benefit from adding gentle body-awareness or relaxation practices into sessions. These techniques pay attention to bodily sensations and simple breath or movement exercises, which can help when trauma or stress shows up in the body rather than only in thoughts.
Finding the right therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Anabelle works with each person to decide what feels most useful, adapting her way of working to match the client’s needs, goals and preferences. She discusses options together and agrees the next steps as part of the therapy.
If you are considering remote sessions, please confirm the exact session formats before booking because the biography does not list them. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments around work, family time and travel. It can also allow shorter check-ins, reduce travel time and help people access counselling from different locations while keeping continuity of care.
Questions and answers
What kinds of issues does she help with?
Anabelle works with a range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting, anger and coping with life changes.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She practises client-centred therapy, offering a non-judgemental and collaborative space where the client’s experience guides the work and the therapist reflects back what she hears.
What is her professional background?
She holds an MSc in Counselling and Psychotherapy from Keele University and has four years’ experience working with people on a variety of issues.
What credentials does she hold and where is she based?
She is associated with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, noted as BACP, and practises in the United Kingdom.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm current session options before booking.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I start working with her?
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