Tracey Bonelle, BACP

Tracey Bonelle is a BACP registered counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with six years of professional experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and challenges such as coping with life changes, addiction, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related issues. Tracey also supports people dealing with eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger, career pressures, bipolar experiences, compassion fatigue and ADHD. She lists guilt and shame among her focus areas.

Tracey uses a relational, client-centred way of working. Sessions begin with listening and making sense of what brought someone in. She pays attention to patterns in relationships and feelings, and to how past experiences might still shape responses now.

Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas and psychodynamic thinking to look at how early relationships and long-term patterns affect current life. She combines that with Mindfulness and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy techniques when people need practical coping skills for strong emotions or self-regulation.

In practice Tracey moves at the client’s pace. Some sessions focus on talking through feelings and history; others focus on learning skills to manage anxiety, cravings, or flashbacks. She supports exploration of identity, adoption and attachment concerns, and neurodivergent experiences such as autism and adult ADHD.

She has experience across health, education and community settings alongside private practice. Tracey welcomes international English-speaking clients and works with people affected by a wide range of life stresses, including abandonment, caregiver strain, chronic illness, codependency and body image worries.

How Tracey uses therapeutic approaches in online work