Aileen Boyle, BACP

Aileen Boyle is a counselling psychotherapist who works with people facing stress, anxiety, addiction and trauma. She holds BACP accreditation and draws on five years of professional practice to offer calm, practical support. She aims to treat everyone with respect and sensitivity. Aileen focuses on creating a space where people can talk things through and make manageable changes.

She uses a mix of approaches suited to each person. Attachment-Based Therapy helps look at how early relationships affect current patterns. Client-Centred Therapy prioritises the person's own goals and pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers hands-on tools for unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Emotionally-Focused Therapy and Existential Therapy are also part of her toolbox for dealing with feelings and meaning.

Aileen has worked with people facing relationship strain, parenting worries, grief around adoption and foster care, and problems linked to addiction. She also supports those coping with self-esteem issues, workplace stress, fertility concerns and money worries. Practical topics such as communication, boundaries and codependency are commonly addressed in sessions.

Her style is straightforward and supportive. Sessions usually involve talking, reflecting and trying small behavioural changes between meetings. Aileen encourages clients to set realistic goals and notices progress as it happens.

To begin, she asks people to consider what matters most to them and what they hope to change. From there she tailors a plan that fits individual needs and life circumstances.

How Aileen’s approaches translate to online therapy

Aileen draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how earlier relationships continue to shape feelings and reactions today. That approach helps when trust, connection or repetitive relationship patterns are the main concern. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioural changes to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through what matters to the client, what they want to change and how they prefer to work. Together they decide which methods feel most helpful and adjust the approach as therapy progresses.

Confirm the specific online session options before booking, as the biography does not list formats. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and let people join from different locations. It also allows shorter check-ins when a full session is not needed and can suit quieter surroundings or times when being on camera is difficult. Registered or accredited professionals can use the same therapeutic techniques online that they use in person, adapting exercises and between-session tasks to the medium.