Stephanie Cartwright is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with eight years’ experience supporting people who want to make positive change. Her clients come from diverse backgrounds and include professionals, stay-at-home mums and students, and she works with a wide range of concerns such as depression, anxiety, bereavement and relationship problems. She often helps clients explore questions like ‘what else can I try on my own?’ and ‘is it me?’.

She also has experience helping people rebuild self esteem and improve self confidence after a relationship break up or within an unhappy partnership.

Stephanie has worked in a hospice setting supporting clients with terminal and non-terminal diagnoses and their carers, assisting them to come to terms with changes in their loved ones while helping to balance moving forward when grief makes life feel as though it must stand still.

Her practice has evolved with an emphasis on achieving results efficiently – sessions are focused on the client’s priorities and tailored to meet each person’s unique needs.

Stephanie’s approach combines person centred, cognitive-behavioural and solution-focused therapy. She works from the view that clients already hold many of the skills they need and that therapy’s role is to help uncover and apply those skills in everyday life. The objective is to provide practical tools so clients feel more in control, focused and empowered between sessions, allowing them to start integrating changes and live the life they want. When change is the goal, altering patterns of thinking or behaviour is central, so clients are often given priorities to work on between sessions.

Over eight years Stephanie has developed techniques that consider mental, emotional, spiritual and physical wellbeing, viewing the whole person as an integrated system.