Siobhan Hopkins , BACP

Siobhan Hopkins offers a warm, exploratory approach to therapy that recognizes how daunting the first step can feel when people carry long-standing emotional burdens. She provides online sessions designed to move at each client's pace, creating space to gently examine current difficulties or persistent patterns that no longer serve them.

Rather than offering quick fixes or simple advice, Siobhan works collaboratively to deepen understanding of a person's thoughts, feelings, and life story so that new clarity and more freedom in relationships and daily living can emerge over time. She has particular clinical insight into experiences such as postnatal depression, the effects of growing up around addiction, and the complex emotional impact of parental adultery, and she brings both professional knowledge and personal empathy to those areas.

Siobhan also supports people navigating spiritual and religious questions, including recovery from spiritual abuse, experiences in high-control faith groups, or the process of re-evaluating beliefs that no longer feel like home. Her practice is open and affirming, offered with a gentle sense of humour and respect for the courage it takes to engage in therapy.

She is a BACP registered practitioner, which means she is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Siobhan describes herself as an integrative therapist, drawing on Gestalt, humanistic, and psychodynamic influences with a person-centred foundation. She trained at Newman University in Birmingham and has lived and worked in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States. Siobhan welcomes clients from a range of backgrounds and is ready to hear each personâs story in their own words.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Siobhan draws on client-centred therapy, which focuses on meeting each person with empathy and acceptance so they can explore their own solutions at a comfortable pace. This approach is helpful for people seeking stronger self-understanding, improved relationships, and a non-judgmental space to process life transitions.

She also integrates attachment-based work, which looks at how early relationships influence current patterns in trust, intimacy, and emotional regulation. Attachment-focused therapy can be useful for anyone dealing with relationship struggles, fears of abandonment, or repetitive relational cycles.

Siobhan may include elements of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to help identify and gently challenge unhelpful thinking and coping strategies when appropriate. CBT techniques can be practical for managing stress, anxiety, and mood-related concerns alongside deeper exploratory work.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey. Siobhan collaborates with each client to understand their needs, goals, and preferences, and she tailors methods over time so the work feels personally relevant and sustainable.

Online sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to connect from different locations. These options offer flexibility in scheduling and communication style, allowing clients and licensed professionals to focus on meaningful progress in ways that suit the client best.