Anne CravenNCPS

Anne Craven offers a straightforward, person-centred way of working. She combines client-centred listening with solution-focused and trauma-informed ideas. Anne's style puts the person and their immediate needs first, helping them find practical steps forward.

Anne has been a registered counsellor with NCPS for 12 years. During that time she has worked with people affected by childhood and adult trauma, PTSD, mood disorders and addictions. She also supports those coping with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and grief.

Her sessions often look at early attachment and how it shapes relationships now. Anne uses inner child work alongside trauma-focused methods to help people name painful patterns and practise new ways of relating to themselves. She also draws on Jungian ideas when dreams or personal symbolism are useful to the work.

Anne helps people who are adjusting to big life changes, including parenting pressures and the emotional shifts around pregnancy and childbirth. She offers simple tools for managing sleep, eating and daily stress, and supports people working through relationship and intimacy issues.

She writes and talks plainly in sessions, aiming to make therapy easy to follow. New clients are guided step by step, so time in therapy feels focused and practical rather than overwhelming.

How Anne's approaches work online

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early bonds and how they affect current relationships. Anne uses this to help people understand patterns in attachment, trust and intimacy so they can try different ways of relating.

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and supporting the person without judgement. It helps people make sense of what matters to them and choose the pace and direction of their own change.

Trauma-Focused Therapy addresses the impact of traumatic events through careful, paced work. It is used to reduce distressing symptoms and to build better day-to-day coping after trauma.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Anne will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try. Decisions are made together so therapy fits the individual's needs and comfort level.

Please confirm the current online session formats before booking, as the profile does not list them explicitly. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time and allow quicker follow-up between meetings. Different formats suit different routines, such as shorter telephone check-ins when a longer session is difficult, or video conversations when face-to-face interaction helps the work.