About Ana
Ana (Anabel) Olmedo Gonzalez is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression and trauma. She works in English and Spanish and offers sessions online and in her independent practice. Ana aims to create a calm space where people can feel listened to and understood.
Ana uses a person-centred approach that focuses on the client’s experience and personal strengths. She also draws on somatic ideas to help people notice how emotions show up in the body.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are offered when they suit the client’s needs. Her background includes seven years of clinical work and registration with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society - NCPS. She combines work in NHS talking therapy services with independent practice, which gives experience across a range of distressing issues such as bereavement, complex trauma and compassion fatigue.
In sessions Ana pays attention to the whole person - thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations - and helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck. Practical tools and gentle reflection are used to support coping and to build emotional awareness. Ana enjoys nature, meditation and yoga, and brings that grounded, steady presence into her work.
She invites people who are struggling with life changes, relationship problems, grief or low mood to explore their difficulties at a pace that feels safe.
How her approaches translate to online work
Ana combines somatic-informed work and person-centred counselling to help people understand feelings and bodily signals. Somatic therapy invites attention to physical sensations and simple grounding practices, which can be useful for trauma, anxiety and stress. Person-centred counselling focuses on the client’s own experience and supports self-understanding and emotional expression.She also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas to help people notice patterns in their emotional responses and attachments. Together these approaches aim to increase emotional awareness and practical coping rather than offering quick fixes. Deciding which approach to use is collaborative; the therapist will discuss options and adapt methods to fit a person’s needs, goals and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different lifestyles. Video and phone sessions allow real-time conversation and emotional work, while chat and messaging can help people who prefer writing or brief check-ins. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care across schedules and locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Spanish