About Andrew
Andrew Merz is a counsellor who brings a somatic-informed perspective to talking therapy. He uses practical, person-focused methods to help people manage stress, anxiety and depression. He is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP - and has five years of professional experience in the United Kingdom.
He aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity and compassion. Sessions are shaped to fit each person’s needs, not a fixed formula.
Background and approach
Andrew listens for what matters most and adapts the conversation and plan accordingly. His work covers a wide range of concerns. He helps people cope with grief, low self-esteem, relationship and intimacy issues, and life transitions.
He also supports those dealing with addictions, sleep and eating problems, anger, career stress and compassion fatigue. Andrew uses a mix of approaches to suit different situations. He draws on somatic ideas that link bodily sensations to emotions, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to clarify values and actions, and cognitive behavioural techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behaviour.
Sessions can be delivered online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. People who prefer English can work with him in that language. International clients are not accepted.
To begin, follow the site's Start Therapy steps to match and schedule.
How somatic-informed work and ACT fit into online therapy
Somatic-informed work pays attention to bodily sensations alongside thoughts and feelings. It can help people notice how tension, breath and posture connect to anxiety, grief or stress and use simple practices to reduce overwhelm.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters and taking small steps towards those values. It works well for people feeling stuck by worry, low mood or life changes and helps build committed, value-led action.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferred ways of working and what feels helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as things change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face to face from home, while phone, live chat and text options suit those who need shorter or more discreet contact. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting and daily life, and allow continued support when meeting in person is difficult.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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
- 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-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- 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
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- 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
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English