Stephanie Cartwright, BACP

Stephanie Cartwright is a UK-based counsellor with eight years of experience supporting people who want to make meaningful change in their lives. She works with clients from varied backgrounds - including professionals, stay-at-home parents and students - addressing concerns such as depression, anxiety, bereavement and relationship difficulties. Many clients come with questions about what else they can try on their own and whether their reactions are understandable, and she has experience helping people rebuild self-esteem and confidence after breakups or within unhappy partnerships.

Her background includes work in a hospice setting, where she supported people with terminal and non-terminal diagnoses and their carers as they adjusted to changing roles and the complex emotions that follow loss. That hospice experience informs her facilitation of grief and bereavement work, helping people find a path forward when loss makes life feel stalled.

Stephanie combines person-centered (client-centered), cognitive-behavioral and solution-focused approaches to keep sessions practical and aligned with each person’s priorities. She believes clients already possess many strengths and focuses on identifying and practising those skills so changes can be integrated between sessions. Sessions are task-oriented when appropriate, with clear priorities to work on between meetings. She also takes a whole-person perspective, addressing mental, emotional, spiritual and physical wellbeing as interconnected aspects of change. Stephanie holds the BACP credential - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - reflecting her professional standing in the field.