Edward Mcguinness
Empathetic, practical counselling for life challenges
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About Edward
Edward Mcguinness is a UK-based counsellor with three years of professional experience. He works with people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood, or relationship strain. He aims to create a respectful and compassionate space where people can start making small changes that matter.
He has supported clients with trauma and abuse, self-esteem and confidence issues, addictions, grief, and intimacy-related concerns. He also helps people facing career pressures, parenting strain, sleep and eating difficulties, and the particular challenges that come with long-term illness or caregiving.
Background and approach
His wider focus includes areas such as attachment and adoption-related issues, neurodiversity, and matters linked to kink or alternative sexual cultures. Edward draws on several practical approaches in sessions, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), and Client-Centred Therapy.
He tailors the conversation and the plan to each person's needs rather than prescribing a single method. He has worked with employee assistance and occupational health type services. That experience informs his work with people juggling life and work demands.
Edward aims to be down-to-earth and pragmatic during sessions, helping clients set realistic steps they can try between meetings. To begin, he encourages people to take the first step and ask for support. The initial contact is used to understand goals and to agree a plan together that fits the person’s situation.
At a glance
- Years practising
- 3
- Registered with
- BACP
- Registration number
- 407886
- Languages
- English
- Approaches include
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- How sessions happen
- Online, by video, phone or messages
Details are as listed on Edward's public professional profile. You can check any number with the professional body.
What Edward works with
Everything Edward lists, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Edward lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Edward works online
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Edward will discuss what matters most to you and try different ways of working until you find what helps. This is a collaborative process where goals and methods are agreed together rather than imposed.
The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm which options are currently offered before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving or travel, and it can reduce time spent travelling. Some people prefer shorter, focused check-ins when schedules are tight, while others use longer sessions for deeper work. Registered or accredited professionals can help decide what fits with your day-to-day life and therapeutic aims.
Questions and answers
What kinds of problems can be brought to sessions?
Edward works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy-related issues, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, and self-esteem.
What is Edward's style in therapy?
He keeps conversations straightforward and practical, focusing on respect and sensitivity while tailoring the approach to your needs.
What experience does he have?
Edward has three years of professional counselling experience and has worked with employee assistance type services.
What credentials and location are listed?
He is listed with the BACP and practices from the United Kingdom.
Can I work with him if I'm overseas or not in the UK?
Sessions are offered to international clients and are conducted in English.
Which session formats are used?
The original biography does not specify session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies by location and therapist arrangements; sessions are provided through a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I start working with him?
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