Yvette StrawbridgePACFA

Yvette Strawbridge is a counsellor and psychotherapist with PACFA credentials and 32 years of clinical experience. She blends talking therapies with expressive methods to help people navigate relationship and family concerns, trauma, intimacy issues and low self-esteem. Her approach is practical and person-focused, and she aims to meet each person where they are. Yvette uses a client-centred framework that places the person’s experience at the heart of sessions. She also draws on biopsychosocial ideas to look at mind, body and social context together. This means conversations can include creative tools such as art, sand tray work and psychodrama when they suit the person. Many people come for help with relationship breakdown, infidelity, blended family difficulties or communication problems. She also supports those dealing with grief, cancer, ageing issues, gender identity matters, and feelings of isolation or shame. Yvette sees individual adults and works with matters arising from separation where child-inclusive mediation may be relevant. Her training includes family dispute resolution and mediation, and she uses those skills when appropriate to help people untangle practical and emotional concerns after separation. Sessions are shaped around people’s aims and the small steps that feel manageable to them. Yvette describes her role as an ally in the room who helps people name what matters, try different ways of relating, and build clearer communication. She encourages practical strategies alongside gentle creative work to support ongoing change.

How client-centred methods translate to online work

Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the centre of every session. The therapist listens without judgement, follows the person’s lead and helps them name what matters most. This approach is useful for relationship strain, self-esteem issues and processing difficult feelings. Yvette also integrates expressive techniques when they suit the client, such as using art or sand tray concepts in conversation to access feelings that words alone don’t reach. These creative options can be adapted for remote sessions where practical, with the therapist suggesting simple ways to work with materials and images. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what methods feel most helpful, then adjust the focus as needs change. That collaborative process helps make sessions feel relevant and useful. If you are interested in online sessions, please confirm which formats are available before booking as the biography does not specify session formats. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people use quieter surroundings or avoid being on camera if that helps them engage more comfortably. Therapists and appropriately qualified practitioners will help decide which way of meeting best supports the person’s aims.