Pamela Benoit, NCPS, BACP

Pamela Benoit is a BACP registered psychotherapist and NCPS accredited member with seven years' experience. She works with adults who are struggling with relationships, low self-esteem, depression, anxiety and life changes. Pamela also helps people facing trauma, grief, parenting strain, anger and career difficulties.

She uses person-centred ways of working alongside cognitive behavioural approaches and attachment-informed thinking. That means sessions focus on what matters to the client, look at thinking patterns that get in the way, and pay attention to how early relationships affect current behaviour. Pamela also uses elements of mindfulness and acceptance-based work to help manage difficult feelings.

Pamela has experience supporting women through domestic abuse, sexual violence, separation and menopause. She helps people recover from relationship breakdown and rebuild confidence after abuse or loss. Practical coping skills and clearer communication are part of that work when they are useful to the person in front of her.

In sessions she encourages direct, plain conversation about what is happening day to day. That can include setting boundaries, reducing people-pleasing, managing stress at work, or navigating parenting pressures. Pamela offers reflective discussion alongside practical exercises the client can try between meetings.

People come to Pamela wanting clearer choices and more control over their lives. She works step by step, helping clients notice patterns, practise new responses, and track progress in small, manageable ways.

How Pamela uses ACT, attachment and person-centred ideas online