Fiona Platts, BACP

Fiona Platts is a counsellor who focuses on thoughts and everyday habits that affect how people feel. She uses straightforward conversation to help individuals manage stress, anxiety, relationship strains and grief. Her style aims to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try small changes that fit their life.

Fiona has three years of hands-on experience working with people in the United Kingdom. She has supported clients with trauma and abuse, sexual abuse, depression, coping with life changes and compassion fatigue. She also works with concerns such as parenting strain, blended family issues, body image and caregiver stress.

Her practice centres on tailoring sessions to each person. She will move at a pace that feels comfortable and safe and help set practical steps between meetings. Sessions often involve talking through recent events, identifying thought and habit patterns, and trying different ways of responding.

Fiona draws on client-centred approaches that keep the person’s priorities central. She also uses existential ideas to look at meaning and choice, and trauma-focused methods when past events are affecting current life. Together these approaches shape a practical, person-focused way of working.

Fiona is registered with BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Sessions are carried out in English and her practice is based in the United Kingdom. To start, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.

How Fiona’s approaches translate to online work

Client-Centred Therapy puts the person’s experience at the heart of each session. It means the counsellor listens, reflects what she hears, and follows the client’s lead to focus on what matters most. This approach helps with building clarity around everyday thoughts and habits and deciding small practical steps to try.

Trauma-Focused Therapy looks directly at how past events continue to affect daily life. It involves careful, paced work to recognise triggers, manage distressing responses and develop safer ways of coping. This approach is useful when trauma or abuse still affects mood, relationships or routines.

Finding the right approach is part of the collaborative work. The counsellor will discuss different ways of working and help choose what fits the client’s needs, goals and preferences. Treatment is reviewed as it goes and plans are changed if something does not feel helpful.

When booking, confirm which session formats are currently offered before you schedule. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also means sessions can take place from locations that suit a person’s schedule, helping therapy slot into everyday routines.