Counsellor profile
Heather Oddy, NCPS
United Kingdom
NCPS counsellor for anxiety and relationships
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- Credentials
- NCPS
- Registration
- NCPS, United Kingdom / NCS20-01032
- Experience
- 5 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- United Kingdom
About
- Codependency support
- ACT and CBT
- Trauma-informed work
About Heather
Heather Oddy is an NCPS registered counsellor with five years of practice in the United Kingdom. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, and codependency. Heather also supports people dealing with sleep and eating difficulties, parenting strains, ADHD concerns, and career or life changes.
She uses an integrative approach that draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based ideas, Client-Centred practice, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT). Heather adapts how she works to suit each person, combining these methods with elements from transactional analysis, gestalt and psychodynamic thinking when helpful.
Her background includes training in trauma-focused techniques and healing approaches. She has studied mindfulness, motivational interviewing and therapies related to adverse childhood experiences. Heather also trained with recognised bodies in healing and the Rewind Technique for addressing distressing past events.
In sessions she aims to help people talk through patterns that leave them putting others first or feeling stuck. Practical tools from CBT and ACT are used alongside talking work about attachment and past relationships. She supports people who suspect they have ADHD to make sense of their experiences and find coping options.
Heather continues professional development and meets monthly clinical supervision within the NCPS legal framework. Her practice combines talking therapies and trauma-informed techniques to help people manage current difficulties and build clearer boundaries and choices.
How sessions work
How Heather uses therapeutic approaches in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and focus on actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and getting unstuck from people-pleasing patterns.Attachment-Based ideas look at how early relationships shape expectations in adult connections. This approach can help people understand why they struggle with boundaries, codependency or intimacy-related fears.
Client-Centred therapy focuses on non-directive, listening-led conversation. It gives space to speak about painful experiences while the counsellor reflects and supports the person's own problem-solving and choices.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Heather will discuss goals and preferences and agree together which methods to try. That collaborative decision is revisited as progress or new issues arise.
The practical advantages of online sessions often include easier scheduling, fitting a short check-in around work, and avoiding travel time. The biography does not list specific session formats here, so confirm the current options before booking. Many people appreciate being able to choose a way of meeting that fits their daily routine while working through patterns such as people-pleasing, boundary difficulties and responses to past trauma.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
5+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, relationship and intimacy-related difficulties, and codependency among other concerns.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is integrative, combining Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centred methods and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with attachment-informed conversation and practical skills.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has five years of experience working with adults and continues monthly clinical supervision as part of her NCPS practice.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is registered with the NCPS and works in the United Kingdom.
Can I work with her in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English only.
Does she accept international clients?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are sessions arranged and what formats are used?
The original biography does not specify session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking.
How much do sessions cost and how do bookings work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time. To start, 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.