Heather Oddy

Heather Oddy is a counsellor who blends practical talking therapy with compassionate support. She holds NCPS and draws on a range of approaches to help people under stress, feeling anxious, grieving, or dealing with trauma. Heather writes simply and listens closely to each person’s story.

She uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice painful thoughts and choose actions that matter to them. Cognitive behavioural methods are used to spot thinking patterns and test them in everyday life. Attachment-based thinking helps when past relationships shape current trust and intimacy problems.

Sessions focus on clear, manageable steps. Heather helps people who struggle with sleep, eating, anger, low self-esteem, work stress and parenting strains. She also supports people dealing with bereavement, chronic health issues, and responses to trauma or abuse.

Her background combines person-centred practice with additional study in mindfulness, psycholinguistics and solution-focused work. She has five years of clinical experience and continues to meet monthly clinical supervision under NCPS standards.

Heather adapts what she uses to fit each person's needs. She aims to create a steady working relationship where people can explore what they want to change and plan practical next steps. If someone prefers clear exercises, reflective conversation, or a mix, she shapes sessions around that.

How Heather’s approaches work for online therapy

Heather commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy as core methods. ACT helps people notice difficult thoughts and focus on values-based actions rather than getting stuck in rumination. CBT looks at unhelpful thinking patterns and tries small behavioural experiments to test new ways of coping.

She also uses attachment-based ideas to understand how early relationship patterns affect trust and intimacy now, which can be useful when working through relationship or abandonment worries. These approaches are explained plainly and applied to everyday problems like sleep, worry, grief and work stress.

Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss aims and preferences together and adapt methods over time. That means sessions can mix practical exercises, reflective conversation, and goal-setting tailored to the person's needs.

Confirm the available session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, reduce travel time, or allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. Talk with the therapist about what will fit into daily life and what kind of session length or pacing would work best.