Andrew Harris, BACP

Andrew Harris is a psychotherapeutic counsellor practising in the United Kingdom. He holds BACP accreditation, which reflects his professional registration in the UK. He aims to make therapy straightforward and approachable for people feeling stuck, overwhelmed or unsure how to move forward.

He often works with grief, loss, anxiety, obsessive thoughts, depression and adapting to big life changes. He also offers support around relationship strain, stress and other linked concerns such as abandonment and attachment issues. His wider focus includes challenges like chronic illness, caregiving stress and body image worries.

Sessions are presented as a chance to talk through thoughts, feelings and behaviours without judgement. Andrew places emphasis on the relationship between counsellor and client as the core of therapeutic work. He describes counselling as a practical conversation where the client’s experience guides the direction.

Andrew welcomes people from majority and minority backgrounds and aims to collaborate on goals that matter to each person. He frames therapy as something that can help restore hope, find new ways to cope and make clearer choices about next steps. He invites people to bring whatever feels most pressing at the time.

With three years of experience, he balances a compassionate manner with focused attention on the issues named by the client. To begin, he encourages people to be honest about what they want to change and to work together to find useful ways forward.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Evidence-based therapeutic techniques often used in counselling include approaches that focus on exploring and understanding feelings and those that build practical coping skills. One common style encourages people to talk through their emotions and life events to make sense of loss and grief; this helps with processing bereavement and adjustment to change. Another approach emphasises identifying unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and learning alternative ways of responding to anxiety and low mood; this can be useful for stress, depression and obsessive thoughts.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the person to decide which way of working feels most useful based on their goals, current problems and personal preferences. That choice can be reviewed as therapy progresses, so the plan can change if something else would fit better.

Session arrangements should be confirmed before booking because the biography does not specify formats. Online therapy can make it easier to fit talking sessions into a busy life, shorten travel time and allow for flexible scheduling around work or caregiving. People may also find it simpler to have shorter check-ins when needed or to choose an option that does not require being on camera, depending on what suits them best.