About Simone
Simone Riviere is a counsellor who uses a somatic-informed approach alongside talking therapy to help people who feel overwhelmed or stuck. She brings ten years of experience and a focus on creating a calm space where people can begin to untangle difficult feelings. People come to her with stress, anxiety, depression, grief and trauma.
She also supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, parenting strain, career worries and identity concerns including LGBT matters.
Background and approach
Simone works with a wide range of challenges such as sleep and eating problems, anger, low self-esteem and coping with life changes. Her way of working blends client-centred listening with elements drawn from Jungian and mindfulness approaches. Sessions revolve around the person’s experience and bodily sensations as well as the stories they bring.
This gives room to notice patterns held in the body as well as in thought and emotion. Simone offers both short-term and open-ended therapy. She aims to build a respectful, non-judgemental relationship so people feel safe to talk about what matters most.
Practical steps and gentle exploration are used to help people find balance and breathe more easily in their daily lives. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and works with clients across the United Kingdom and internationally. Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Therapeutic approaches online that attend to body and story
Somatic Therapy pays attention to physical sensations and how the body holds stress or trauma. Online sessions can still notice breath, tension and posture while using gentle exercises to increase awareness and ease symptoms, which can help with anxiety, trauma and chronic stress.Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and relationship. The counsellor offers empathy and support while the person leads the pace and topics, useful for building self-trust and working through grief, low mood or relationship concerns.
Jungian Therapy looks at personal stories, imagery and deeper patterns that repeat across life. It can help people understand recurring themes in relationships, identity and meaning, and can be explored through conversation and reflective work online.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Simone will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person’s needs, goals and preferences. That choice can change over time as work deepens and new priorities emerge.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging - make therapy more flexible. They let people attend from home, fit sessions around work or parenting, and choose the mode that feels most comfortable. This range of options supports continuity and makes it easier to keep progressing between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English