About Siobhan
Siobhan Hopkins offers calm, steady support for people facing big life challenges. She meets clients online and helps them tackle worries about relationships, grief, parenting, career changes, stress and anxiety. Sessions are practical and paced to suit each person.
Siobhan draws on somatic ideas to help people notice how their body holds stress and emotion. She also uses attachment-based and client-centred ways of working to explore how past relationships shape present patterns.
Background and approach
Cognitive behavioural techniques and Jungian ideas are brought in when they help make thoughts and feelings clearer. She is a BACP counsellor - that is, registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Siobhan has four years of professional experience and has practised in the UK, Ireland and the USA.
She is used to talking about loss, spiritual questions, and the emotional effects of addiction or parental betrayal. In sessions she aims for straightforward conversation rather than quick fixes. People can expect a warm, accepting tone and a focus on finding what helps in everyday life.
She is comfortable combining talking work with noticing bodily sensations and small homework tasks. Siobhan welcomes people from different backgrounds and faith journeys, including those re-evaluating belief systems. She works with issues such as intimacy concerns, anger, depression, compassion fatigue and caregiving stress.
International clients can access her sessions online.
How different approaches work online
Somatic-informed work helps people tune into bodily signals and notice where stress sits in the body. This can make emotions easier to name and reduce overwhelming physical tension during times of change or grief.Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current trust, closeness and conflict patterns. It can help when people find themselves repeating the same relationship habits or struggling with intimacy.
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and understanding without judgement. The therapist offers acceptance and reflection so people feel heard and can make sense of their own priorities and choices.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will discuss options with each person and together they will decide what methods best match the client’s needs, goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process that can change as therapy progresses.
Online sessions via video, phone, live chat or text messaging offer practical flexibility. They make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel. Many people find online formats help them access support from wherever they are and maintain continuity through life changes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English