About Neil
Dr. Neil Summers is a counsellor with four decades of experience in mental health work. He uses a grounded, practical style to help people manage stress, anxiety and low mood.
He also supports those affected by trauma and relationship difficulties. He holds BACP registration, which is shown as BACP in his credentials. His approach is straightforward and person-focused.
Sessions invite people to talk about what is troubling them and to notice how their body responds.
Background and approach
He blends somatic ideas with talking therapies to help people reconnect with their physical responses as well as their thoughts and feelings. He draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take small, workable steps towards them. Attachment-based work is used to look at how early relationships influence current patterns.
Client-centred principles keep the pace set by the person in the room. Dr. Summers often works with people facing issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, dissociation, addiction, and problems with communication and commitment.
He also supports those coping with family strain, fatherhood concerns, body image and co-morbid mental health issues. Sessions are offered in English and can be done remotely by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. International clients are supported.
Practical steps and simple tools are usually part of the work, alongside talking and bodily awareness exercises.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how stress and emotion show up in the body. In online sessions this can mean noticing breathing, posture and tension, then using gentle grounding exercises to help people feel more present and able to talk. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small steps towards those values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and life transitions.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods suit each person’s needs, goals and preferences. This means trying different ways of working and adjusting as progress unfolds rather than assuming one fixed method from the start.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, family or travel commitments and to maintain continuity when life is busy. Many people find that accessible contact and a mix of real-time and written formats help them keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English