Siobhan Hopkins, BACP

Siobhan Hopkins welcomes people who are carrying heavy, tangled feelings and need a steady, compassionate presence. She offers a calm approach that helps individuals talk through grief, relationship strains, parenting pressures, anxiety, addiction-related impacts, and major life changes. Sessions are paced to suit each person and aim to make difficult things easier to name and understand.

Her style centres on listening and understanding rather than quick fixes. She draws on person-centred work to make conversations feel centred on the client. This creates space to notice patterns in relationships, thoughts and behaviour, and to try different ways of responding in day-to-day life.

Siobhan also brings psychodynamic and gestalt perspectives to her practice. These approaches help unpick how past experiences shape present reactions, and how small shifts in awareness can change how people relate to themselves and others. Mindfulness and cognitive tools are used where helpful to manage stress, low mood and anxiety in practical ways.

She has particular experience with the emotional impact of addiction in families, parental adultery, postnatal depression, spiritual or religious questioning, and caregiver strain. Siobhan has worked in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the USA, and welcomes international clients who prefer to work in English.

Siobhan is BACP accredited, which indicates registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She aims to help clients find clarity and strength, and supports them to make choices that feel more manageable over time.

How Siobhans approaches translate to online therapy

Siobhan commonly uses attachment-based ideas and client-centred work to shape conversations online. Attachment-based work looks at how close relationships formed in the past still affect feelings and reactions now, and it can help when intimacy, trust or abandonment concerns are present. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening, empathy and the clients own goals, creating space for the person to lead the pace and focus of sessions.

She also draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to offer practical techniques for managing anxiety, low mood and stress. CBT-style tools can help with day-to-day symptoms by teaching ways to notice and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Together these approaches balance understanding of life story with practical steps for coping.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about what feels most helpful and adapt methods to match their needs, goals and preferences. That means trying things collaboratively and adjusting as progress is made.

Session logistics should be confirmed before booking because specific formats are not stated in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions around work, family and travel, reduce the need to travel, and allow shorter check-ins when time is tight. It also makes it possible for people in different countries to work together in English with registered or accredited professionals.