Counsellor profile
Esther Fendall, BACP
United Kingdom
BACP counsellor - relationships and addictions
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- Credentials
- BACP
- Registration
- BACP, United Kingdom / 45269
- Experience
- 14 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- United Kingdom
About
- Relationship struggles
- Addictions support
- Codependency issues
About Esther
Esther Fendall is a BACP counsellor with 14 years of experience. She works with people facing anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties and addictions, and she includes codependency among her areas of focus. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients from the United Kingdom.
Esther uses an integrative way of working, drawing on several evidence-based therapeutic techniques. She aims to help people make sense of their thoughts and feelings, and to set practical goals they can work towards at a comfortable pace. Conversations are straightforward and focused on what feels useful in day-to-day life.
She has worked in a range of settings, including private practice, a medical practice, a drug addiction service and volunteer roles for a UK mental health charity. That variety informs how she responds to stress, grief, parenting strains and the fallout from trauma or loss. Esther also notes experience with concerns such as body image, eating issues, caregiver stress and long-term health conditions.
Esther follows the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy ethical framework. She describes herself as honest and responsive in sessions and aims to work alongside clients rather than direct them. Her approach is practical: noticing patterns, trying out small changes and reviewing what helps.
She has personal experience of how therapy can be helpful and combines that with professional practice. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange a first session through the online booking flow. Costs vary with location and use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How sessions work
How Esther’s approaches transfer to online counselling
Esther works integratively, combining several evidence-based techniques to suit the person in front of her. For example, she often uses cognitive-style work that helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and tests more helpful ways of thinking; this can help with anxiety, low mood and people-pleasing habits. She also draws on experiential and relational methods that look at how past attachments affect current relationships, which can be useful for people dealing with codependency or abandonment issues.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Esther will explore a client’s goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t worked before, then agree on methods to try together. That means sessions can shift over time as different techniques are tested and reviewed in collaboration.
The practical benefits of online work include fitting sessions into a busy life and reducing travel time. Online sessions can make it easier to have shorter check-ins when needed, and phone contact can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter, less visual check-in feels better. The biography does not specify which session formats she uses, so confirm current options before booking to make sure they fit into your routine.
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Experience
14+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she work with?
She works with anxiety, depression, grief, relationship difficulties and addictions, among other concerns including codependency and caregiver stress.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She practises an integrative approach that pulls from evidence-based techniques and focuses on practical, everyday changes people can try.
How much experience does she have?
Esther has 14 years of experience in counselling across private practice, a medical practice and a drug addiction service, plus charity volunteer work.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and is based in the United Kingdom.
Does she run sessions in other languages or for international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she does accept international clients.
Which session formats does she offer?
The original biography does not list specific session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How are sessions charged?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
What do I need to do to begin?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.