About Abigail
Abigail Goodwin is a counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship and family strains, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns and issues around intimacy. She also supports people with eating and sleeping problems, anger, low self-esteem, depression, ADHD and coping with major life changes.
Abigail uses a somatic-informed approach alongside talking therapies to help people notice how their bodies respond to difficult feelings. She trained and works within the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy framework, listed as BACP.
Background and approach
Abigail has around 11 years of professional experience and offers a practical, down-to-earth style. Sessions focus on clear, manageable steps rather than jargon-heavy explanations. Abigail combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with client-centred listening and elements of cognitive behavioural work.
She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns. This blend lets her adapt sessions to what a person needs right now. In practice she pays attention to bodily signals and simple grounding techniques alongside talking.
People can expect gentle guidance, reflective listening and small experiments to try between sessions. The work aims to build skills for coping and improve day-to-day wellbeing. She explains plans plainly and adjusts them if something is not working.
Abigail supports individual adults who want a clearer way forward. Getting started involves a brief matching process and then scheduling sessions that fit a person's life.
How Abigail combines body awareness with online therapy
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how the body holds stress and emotion and may include simple grounding and breathing exercises to ease tension. This approach can help with anxiety, trauma responses and chronic stress by making physical reactions easier to recognise and manage. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choosing actions that align with personal values. It often helps with worry, low mood and motivation by teaching practical skills for living well despite difficulty. Attachment-based ideas look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and communication. This can be useful for people wanting to understand trust, closeness and recurring relationship problems. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and try different methods to find what fits best. Plans are adjusted as work progresses so the focus remains practical and relevant. Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, family and daily life, and let people continue therapy from their own home or another convenient place. Abigail uses these formats to deliver the same blend of somatic awareness and talking therapy in ways that suit each person's routine.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English