About Beverly
Beverly James is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She supports people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood, grief or difficulties with self-esteem. She also offers help for addiction concerns, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and life transitions that feel hard to manage.
Beverly takes a calm, person-centred approach in sessions. She aims to build a space where people can speak openly about painful memories or worries.
Background and approach
Conversations are guided by what matters to the person, and practical steps are explored alongside emotional processing. Her work draws on somatic ideas that link body sensations with feelings, and on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot and shift unhelpful thinking patterns. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy to help people notice values and repair relational patterns.
Beverly has three years of professional experience and is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She works with adults on a range of concerns including grief, caregiving stress, ADHD, eating and sleeping difficulties, chronic illness, and career strain. Sessions are offered in English and can be run online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Those wanting to begin can use the Start Therapy button to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session according to therapist availability.
How therapeutic approaches and online sessions fit together
Somatic-informed work helps people notice how sensations in the body relate to emotions. This can be useful for trauma, anxiety and states of chronic tension where the body holds stress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on what matters to a person and teaches ways to act in line with those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It often helps with motivation, low mood and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and can be helpful for intimacy struggles and recurring relationship difficulties.Finding the best approach is a shared process. Beverly discusses the options with each person and tailors sessions to their needs, goals and preferences. Over a few meetings they decide together which methods feel most helpful and adapt the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people talk face to face from home, while phone, live chat or text messaging provide alternative ways to connect when video is not convenient. These formats make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving and daily life, and to continue support when travel is difficult.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- 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)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- 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)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English