Melanie Farnworth, BACP

Melanie Farnworth helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, loss or low self‑esteem. She is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom and speaks English. Melanie aims to make it easier for people to talk about difficult feelings and to take small steps towards feeling better.

She draws on person‑centred ways of working to create an open space for conversation. That means the focus stays on the person in the room and what matters to them. Melanie also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different ways of thinking and acting.

Melanie has worked in a cancer charity offering counselling to people facing a diagnosis and to members of their families. She has four years of experience supporting people through bereavement, pet grief, family conflict, depression and life changes. Her practice also covers concerns such as ADHD, chronic illness and caregiver stress.

In sessions she aims to be warm and non‑judgemental while helping clients identify practical steps forward. Sessions often involve talking through current problems, testing small changes, and reviewing what works. She encourages people to set goals that feel manageable and realistic.

Melanie understands it can be hard to start therapy and seeks to make the first steps straightforward. If scheduled times do not fit, she asks people to get in touch to try to find a mutually convenient appointment.

How Melanie's approaches translate to online counselling

Melanie works mainly with person‑centred methods and cognitive behavioural techniques. Person‑centred work focuses on listening and reflecting what someone says so they can name feelings and priorities; it helps when someone needs space to talk through grief, family worries or low mood. Cognitive behavioural techniques look at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together and introduce small experiments to test different ways of coping with anxiety or stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Melanie will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and will adapt methods collaboratively. Together they decide which techniques to try and review what is helpful as therapy progresses.

The biography does not list specific online formats, so please confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make sessions easier to fit into a busy day, reduce travel time and allow shorter check‑ins when needed. It can also make it simpler to keep continuity of care for people who live farther away or who need flexible appointment times.