Mandy Cross, BACP
Warm counsellor using somatic and practical methods
About Mandy
Mandy Cross is a counsellor with eleven years of practice who combines practical talking work with awareness of the body. She holds BACP registration, which is shown as BACP, and she offers a calm, respectful presence for people facing difficult times. Her style is warm and interactive and she aims to treat people without labels.
She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression and grief. She also supports those struggling with relationship and intimacy-related issues, addiction and bipolar mood concerns.
Background and approach
Other areas she addresses include sleep and eating difficulties, anger, career change and compassion fatigue. Mandy uses a mix of Somatic approaches and talking therapies to tailor work to each person. Sessions can include mindful awareness of bodily sensations alongside practical exercises drawn from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and client-centred dialogue.
The focus is on what feels helpful to the person in front of her rather than one fixed method. Her wider experience includes supporting people with trauma and abuse, abandonment and attachment concerns, chronic pain or illness, caregiver stress and end-of-life issues. She also works with people coping with autism-related challenges, communication and control problems, and relationship breakdowns.
Working together starts with listening and building a plan that fits a person’s goals. Mandy aims to empower people to manage symptoms and make changes that matter to them. If someone is ready to begin, she guides them through the next steps so they can move forward.
How Mandy's approaches work online
Somatic therapy focuses on the body alongside talk. It helps people notice sensations, tension and breath patterns and links those observations to emotions and behaviour. This can be useful for stress, trauma reactions and persistent anxiety.Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of sessions. The counsellor listens without judgement and follows the client’s pace to build trust and clarity. It is helpful when someone needs a safe space to make sense of difficult feelings.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses simple exercises and experiments to test unhelpful thoughts and try new coping strategies, often useful for anxiety, depression and sleep problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will talk with the person about their goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together they shape a plan that may combine methods rather than sticking to just one.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to attend from home, fit sessions around work or family, and use formats that suit how someone prefers to communicate. Therapists can adapt exercises and somatic practices to work effectively in each online format.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English