Anna Koolen, BACP

Anna Koolen is a counsellor with five years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She works with people who are feeling stuck by stress, anxiety, addiction and life changes. Anna approaches sessions as a collaborative process and encourages people to build on their own strengths.

She believes clients are the experts on their own stories and brings a calm, respectful presence to conversations. In practical terms this means listening first and helping people find small, achievable steps. People often come to her for help with grief, low self‑esteem, relationship difficulties and midlife questions.

Anna uses a range of approaches to match what each person needs. She draws on client‑centred ways of working to create space for honest reflection. Psychodynamic ideas may be used to look at patterns that repeat across a person’s life.

Motivational Interviewing is part of the toolkit when people want to change habits such as drug or alcohol use. Existential ideas help when clients are wrestling with meaning, purpose or life transitions.

Her sessions tend to focus on clear, practical aims. Issues like attachment worries, blended family tensions, codependency or workplace stress are spoken about in straightforward terms. Anna is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, listed as BACP, and offers sessions in English.

How Anna’s approaches translate to online therapy

Anna works from client‑centred and motivational approaches that transfer well to remote conversations. Client‑centred work focuses on careful listening, reflecting what the client says and helping them make their own choices; this is useful for issues like anxiety, low self‑esteem and relationship strain. Motivational Interviewing concentrates on exploring a person's ambivalence and building motivation for change, which can help with addictions or making life adjustments.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Anna will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs and then suggest which methods to try. This is a collaborative process and can be reviewed as therapy progresses to make sure it continues to fit the client's aims.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check‑in meetings when needed. It also allows people to continue therapy when they move location or travel internationally, subject to any practical arrangements that need agreeing in advance.