LivingWell Counselling: Based in Crawley, Horsham & online
Trauma-Informed Therapy for Anxiety, Depression, and Emotional Healing
My aim is to support you in reconnecting with your inner resources, values, and voice. Whether you're navigating trauma, loss, identity, or life transitions. I provide counselling for anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma to help foster resilience, clarity, and hope.
My therapeutic approach is integrative, rooted in person-centred values and guided by trauma-informed principles. I believe healing unfolds in relationship, through safety, collaboration, and compassionate curiosity. I offer a warm, non-judgmental space where you can explore your experiences at your own pace within a therapeutic relationship built on trust, respect, and empowerment.
I draw from a range of therapeutic interventions to meet the unique needs of each individual. Alongside talking therapy, there is an option to integrate creative methods to support expression, insight, and emotional processing. Where appropriate, I also offer spiritual or faith-sensitive interventions, honouring each person’s beliefs and supporting their sense of meaning, hope, and connection.
Schedule Your Free call Today
Ready to take the first step towards a happier, healthier you? I offer a free 30-minute call (phone or video) to get a feel for how I work and whether it feels like a good fit for you — no obligation, just a gentle first step.
LivingWell Counselling: Your Partner in Mental Health
About me
My name is Anna and alongside my counselling work, I have 20 years of pastoral care experience and extensive experience supporting individuals through my role in a mental health charity. I am a qualified counsellor with a BA (Hons) in counselling and a member of BACP and ACC. I offer a warm, empathetic, and collaborative approach. My work is grounded in trauma awareness and a deep respect for each individual’s unique experience .
Services & Fees
After a free 30 minute call I offer weekly 50 minute appointments either in person within Crawley/Horley and surrounding areas or online using a video platform. I recognise the value and importance of the counselling role and I understand that therapy is an investment. To keep it accessible, I offer concession rates for those who need them, and we can talk together about what feels manageable. Sessions are charged from £50 online and £55 in-person per session with limited reduced fee sessions for students/low income depending on availability. Payment required on the day of session.
Qualifications & Experience
BA (Hons) Counselling
Diploma of Higher Education Counselling
Domestic Abuse Professional Training – Level 2
NICE-aligned CPD: Supporting individuals who self-harm or experience suicidal ideation
Care Certificate for mental health services
CPD-Motivational Interviewing
CPD-Solution Focused Brief Therapy
CPD-Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) – skills training
20 years pastoral support experience
Experience working within a mental health charity, managing risk, creating support plans, 1:1 support and wellbeing groups
Experience working within a community counselling service
Unlock Your Potential with LivingWell Counselling
Areas of Support
I regularly support people with:
- Anxiety, worry, and overthinking
- Low mood, depression, and loss of motivation
- Stress, burnout, and overwhelm
- Trauma, PTSD, and the effects of frightening or harmful experiences
- Domestic abuse recovery and rebuilding after coercive control
- Relationship or family difficulties
- Grief, loss, and major life changes
- OCD, intrusive thoughts, and compulsive patterns
- Hoarding behaviours
- Addictive or compulsive behaviours
- Emotional regulation, anger, and shutdown
- People‑pleasing, perfectionism, and inner conflict
- Work‑related stress and boundaries
- Neurodiversity‑related challenges (Autism, ADHD/ADD)
- Spiritual or faith‑related concerns.
Anxiety Counselling
My anxiety counselling approach is gentle, collaborative, and grounded in an understanding of the nervous system. We work at a pace that feels safe, exploring the fears and patterns that shape your anxiety. I offer a calm, non‑judgmental space to make sense of your thoughts and feelings, develop practical strategies, and build confidence in managing anxious moments. Using somatic awareness and IFS‑informed exploration, we gently connect with the parts of you that carry anxiety, helping them feel understood rather than overwhelmed. This approach also supports wider emotional wellbeing, including depression, grief, and trauma.
Depression Counselling
My approach to depression counselling is compassionate, steady, and attuned to your nervous system. I offer a safe, non‑judgmental space to explore sadness, hopelessness, or overwhelm at a pace that feels manageable. Through gentle somatic awareness and parts‑based exploration, we make sense of what feels shut down and support your system to find grounding and stability. My aim is to help you understand your experiences, reconnect with your strengths, and develop practical strategies that foster resilience, emotional balance and hope.
Trauma Counselling
My trauma counselling approach is integrative, gentle, and paced to your nervous system. I support healing from PTSD, domestic abuse, childhood abuse, and sexual abuse using evidence‑based models and somatic awareness to help regulate the body. Drawing on IFS and a stage‑based trauma framework, we prioritise safety and stabilisation before deeper work. Together, we create a supportive space to understand your experiences, reconnect with your strengths, and move forward at a pace that feels right for you.
Grief Counselling
My grief counselling offers a compassionate, steady space to honour your loss and explore the emotions that come with it. Grief isn’t something to fix, it’s something to be witnessed and supported. At a pace that feels right for you, we look at how grief shows up in your thoughts, emotions, and body, using gentle somatic awareness to help regulate your nervous system. Together, we focus on understanding your experience, reconnecting with your strengths, and find a way forward that feels true to you and honours your loss.
Additional information of the theraputic approaches
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Somatic (body-based) Awareness
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a gentle, compassionate approach that understands we all have different “parts” within us, emotions, beliefs, and inner voices shaped by our experiences. Instead of seeing these parts as problems, IFS helps them feel heard and less burdened so you can move through life with more clarity and ease.
I integrate IFS in an accessible, grounded way. You don’t need to know any theory we simply explore your inner experience with curiosity. You might notice parts that feel anxious, overwhelmed, discouraged, or longing for change. Seeing these as understandable responses rather than personal failings creates space for compassion.
Together, we explore what each part needs and how it has been trying to protect you. This deepens self‑understanding, softens self‑criticism, and supports a sense of inner harmony.
Somatic (body-based) Awareness
Somatic (body-based) Awareness
Somatic work means paying attention to what the body is communicating. Our bodies often hold stress and emotion before we can put them into words. By noticing sensations like tightness, heaviness, or restlessness, we begin to understand how the body responds to stress and safety.
In sessions, I may invite you to notice where tension shows up, how your breath changes, or how different emotions feel in the body. This isn’t about analysing it’s about building curiosity and a kinder relationship with your internal experience.
Somatic awareness helps you recognise early signs of overwhelm, stay connected during difficult emotions, and support nervous‑system regulation. It also strengthens trauma recovery by helping the body find steadiness and offering choice in how you respond.
Somatic work blends naturally with my integrative approach, supporting IFS, mindfulness, grounding, and CBT tools. It creates a gentle, embodied way of working that helps you feel more present, regulated, and connected to yourself.
Solution Focused Brief Therapy
Solution Focused Brief Therapy
This future-oriented, strengths-based therapeutic approach is designed to assist clients in moving toward change, especially beneficial in time-limited counselling.
SFBT is a gentle, practical approach that helps you move toward the life you want by focusing on your strengths, resources, and the small changes that make a real difference. Instead of going over painful memories in detail, we look at what’s already helping, what’s important to you, and what “better” would look like. We focus on identifying what’s already working and the small steps that can make a meaningful difference. Our emphasis is on setting clear, meaningful goals and achieving small, attainable steps.
Person-Centred Therapy
Solution Focused Brief Therapy
Person‑centred counselling sits at the heart of my practice. It means the relationship is central, and you’re met with warmth, respect, and genuine curiosity. You set the pace and choose what feels important. My role is to offer empathy, deep listening, and a steady presence so you can explore your experiences safely and honestly.
These values shape everything I do whether we’re using somatic awareness, IFS parts work, CBT tools, or creative approaches. The work remains collaborative, respectful, and led by your goals. This creates a therapeutic relationship where you can feel understood, empowered, and supported to grow in a way that feels authentic to you.
Mindfulness & Meditation
Mindfulness means paying attention to the present moment with curiosity rather than judgement. In sessions, this might involve noticing your breath, your feet on the floor, or how thoughts and emotions move through you. It helps you stay connected and grounded, especially when things feel overwhelming.
Mindfulness supports you to slow down, recognise what’s happening inside, understand triggers, and respond rather than react. It’s always invitational — you choose what feels safe.
Meditation offers a more focused way of practising mindfulness, using gentle breathing, visualisation, or grounding exercises to settle the nervous system. It can reduce anxiety, calm the body, and support emotional regulation.
Together, mindfulness and meditation create a steady foundation for healing, self‑understanding, and long‑term resilience.
Faith & Spirituality
Faith‑sensitive work blends naturally with my integrative approach. It allows emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of your life to be explored together, at a pace that feels right for you. Some people find comfort and meaning in their faith; others carry hurt or uncertainty. You’re free to bring as much or as little of this into therapy as you choose.
You can explore questions, doubts, spiritual struggles, or reconnect with faith as a source of strength. We can also gently process hurt from church or religious experiences and look at how your beliefs shape identity, relationships, and choices.
I follow your lead. My role is to offer compassion, curiosity, and a safe space not answers or direction.
Tesimonials
Livingwell Counselling: Your Path to Healing
"Anna was the right person for me. She was kind and caring and I felt 100% she helped me to come through my trauma " Anonymous
"Anna helped minimise my bad habits and high stress, Anna was amazing and without her I don't even want to think of the slippery slope I would have ended down. My quality of life has greatly improved" Anonymous
