🌿 Online Counselling for Anxiety: A Person-Centred Approach with Lisa Wastney

Anxiety can feel like a tightening — in the chest, in the breath, in the space around you. It can be isolating, exhausting, and hard to explain. When worries spiral and everyday moments feel heavy, therapy can offer a quiet place to pause, reflect, and begin again.

I’m Lisa Wastney, a person-centred counsellor offering online therapy across the UK. I work gently with anxiety, low mood, shame, guilt, grief, and relational difficulties — always with emotional safety at the core.

🌼 Understanding Anxiety and Its Impact

Anxiety is more than just feeling stressed. It can affect your thoughts, your body, your relationships — and your sense of self. You might notice:

• Persistent worry or fear

• Difficulty concentrating

• Physical symptoms like a racing heart, shallow breath, or muscle tension

• Avoiding situations that feel overwhelming

  
  

These experiences can be deeply personal and often misunderstood. Recognising their impact is a powerful first step

🌾 What Is Person-Centred Therapy

Person-centred therapy focuses on you as an individual, rather than on a diagnosis or set of symptoms. Developed by Carl Rogers, this approach believes that people have the inner resources to grow and heal when given the right environment.

Lisa Wastney creates a safe, non-judgmental space where you feel heard and valued. The therapy sessions are guided by your pace and needs, allowing you to explore your feelings and thoughts openly.

🌙 How Therapy Can Help with Anxiety

Building Trust and Emotional Safety

Together, we create a space where you can speak freely — without fear of judgment or pressure to “fix” things quickly

Gently Increasing Self-Understanding

Through reflection and attuned listening, we begin to notice patterns, beliefs, and emotional undercurrents that may be fuelling your anxiety.

Supporting Your Own Way Forward

Rather than offering advice, I support you in reconnecting with your own wisdom — building confidence, clarity, and self-trust

Providing Consistent Emotional Support

Regular sessions offer a steady anchor — a place to return to, especially when life feels uncertain or overwhelming.

🪟 What to Expect

• A free introductory session to see if we’re a good fit

• One-to-one online sessions, held in the evenings or at weekends

• A gentle, confidential space where your experience is held with care

• Support to explore anxiety triggers, emotional patterns, and coping strategies

• A focus on resilience, self-compassion, and emotional spaciousness

  
  

🌸 Real-Life Shifts

Clients often describe feeling more grounded, more able to notice their needs, and less alone in their experience. One client shared how naming their anxiety in session helped them soften their inner critic. Another found that simply having a space to breathe and be — without needing to explain — brought unexpected relief.

🌺 Why Work With Me?

I bring a First Class BA (Hons) in Counselling, BACP membership, and experience in supporting people through anxiety, shame, and loss. But more than that, I bring presence, patience, and a deep respect for your pace and process.

This isn’t about quick fixes. It’s about creating a space where you can feel safe enough to explore, reflect, and reconnect with yourself.

🌤️ Taking the First Step

If anxiety is affecting your life, therapy with me offers a compassionate and effective way to find relief. The person-centred approach creates a space where you can explore your feelings, build understanding, and develop confidence.

Book your free introductory session today. It’s a gentle first step — and it might just be the beginning of something quietly transformative.