Annette Isibor, BACP

Annette Isibor is a BACP counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with 21 years of experience. She works with stress and anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression and addictions. She also helps people coping with grief, intimacy struggles, sleeping and eating problems, parenting strain and codependency concerns.

Her approach draws on cognitive behavioural methods, attachment-focused thinking and client-centred work. In sessions she listens to what matters most and uses straightforward techniques to help people notice patterns, try different responses and build clearer priorities. The emphasis is on small, practical changes rather than jargon or long lectures.

Annette often uses tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy alongside emotionally-focused ideas when relationships and attachment come into view. She will discuss what might be helpful and try methods that suit each person’s situation and pace. Conversations include identifying unhelpful thinking, noticing emotional responses and practising new ways of relating.

People come to her when they are tired of putting others first, worried about saying no, or struggling around someone else’s moods or drinking. Sessions can cover boundary-setting, managing triggers from past hurt, coping skills for anxiety, and rebuilding a sense of self beyond a relationship.

Her work aims to be direct and practical. She explains options, invites questions and reviews progress as therapy continues. If someone prefers, the first step is to use the site matching process to arrange an initial appointment and see how the approach fits.

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