Annabel Minors, BACP

Annabel Minors is a BACP-registered therapist with over 12 years of experience supporting people through anxiety, low mood and life transitions. She offers a calm, accepting presence and works in a down-to-earth, compassionate way to help clients explore what lies beneath recurring difficulties and to support positive change.

Her practice focuses on relationship concerns, self-esteem and coping with stressful life events, including workplace pressures, separation and issues stemming from emotional or narcissistic abuse. Annabel also works with attachment and intercultural difficulties, drawing on her own experience of adapting to life in France and the challenges of feeling rootless or out of place while living between cultures.

Annabel takes an intuitive, client-centered approach that helps people make sense of painful feelings such as guilt, shame, emptiness or isolation. She combines empathic listening with psychodynamic ideas to uncover patterns that may be holding someone back from healthier connections and greater self-compassion. BACP refers to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, the professional body with which she is registered, indicating adherence to recognised practice standards.

Over more than a decade of work in both France and the United Kingdom, Annabel has supported individuals facing a wide range of relational and emotional challenges and aims to create a supportive space where clients can explore change at their own pace.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Annabel Minors integrates client-centered work with psychodynamic thinking to support people facing relationship and emotional difficulties. Client-Centered Therapy places the client's experience at the heart of the process - the therapist offers empathic, non-directive listening to help people build self-understanding, confidence and coping strategies for issues like low self-esteem, anxiety and life changes. Psychodynamic Therapy explores how early relationships and recurring patterns influence current feelings and behaviour - this approach can be useful for attachment issues, repeated relationship difficulties, and unresolved feelings such as guilt or emptiness.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey and Annabel works collaboratively with each person to determine what fits best. She listens to the client’s goals, preferences and life context, and adapts sessions so the chosen methods support meaningful, practical change over time.

Online therapy with Annabel is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, providing flexibility for people balancing work, family and other commitments. These options make it easier to access regular, consistent support from a registered professional, while allowing sessions to fit more naturally into a client’s day-to-day life.