About Andrea
Andrea Croston is a counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction and trauma. She supports those struggling with self-esteem, depression, grief and relationship or intimacy concerns. Andrea also works with people facing eating and sleeping problems, parenting stress, career questions, ADHD and compassion fatigue.
She uses a practical, listening-led approach so people can feel understood and begin to make small changes. Andrea trained to Level 4 in counselling and psychotherapy, and holds BACP registration.
Background and approach
She began her journey over 20 years ago through volunteering in charity settings. That time listening to many different people shaped how she works today. Her style is grounded in person-centred values.
Sessions focus on what matters to the individual and on building a safe, steady therapeutic relationship. Andrea combines that foundation with somatic awareness, cognitive behavioural ideas and acceptance and commitment principles to make therapy feel useful and down to earth. Clients can expect straightforward conversation and practical exercises.
Andrea pays attention to how the body and emotions are linked, and may invite simple bodily awareness or breathing work alongside talking. She aims to help people notice patterns and try manageable new ways of coping. With four years of professional practice since qualification, Andrea keeps learning and reflects on her work regularly.
She describes the person in front of her as the expert on their own life, and sees her role as supporting that expertise while offering tools and perspective. Sessions are offered in English and Andrea works remotely with people in the United Kingdom and internationally. She uses a flexible, conversational tone and adapts tasks to each person’s pace and needs.
How Andrea’s approaches work online
Somatic work focuses on the connection between body sensations and emotions. Online sessions may include guided attention to breath, posture or gentle bodily noticing to help people recognise stress and regulate feelings. This can help with anxiety, trauma responses and chronic tension.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them and to choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and life changes where someone wants clearer direction and practical steps.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and try methods that feel right. Work is collaborative and adapted as understanding grows, so people can test what helps over time.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. That variety makes it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel. Many people find the flexibility helps them keep continuity and practise skills between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English