- Client-centred listening
- CBT techniques
- Existential reflection
About Zoe
Zoe Hewlett is a BACP counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience. She works with people carrying stress, anxiety, depression, relationship worries, LGBT concerns, and issues around self-esteem, identity and guilt and shame.
She uses a practical way of working. Sessions focus on what is happening now and what the client wants to change. Zoe draws on client-centred listening so the person is heard, and on cognitive behavioural techniques to help identify unhelpful thinking and try different behaviours.
Zoe also uses ideas from existential therapy to look at meaning, values and how people make choices when life feels difficult. She supports people facing grief, trauma, eating and body image issues, and those coping with life transitions such as career shifts or midlife questions.
Her background includes work across a range of settings and cultures, including work with people who have experienced homelessness. That experience informs her practical approach to risk, complexity and day-to-day problems. Zoe says she often helps clients build coping skills and action plans to manage everyday life.
She typically offers sessions in the evenings and at weekends, with occasional daytime appointments by request. To begin, clients use the site matching process and schedule a first session via the online options button.
Therapeutic approaches and working online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and supporting the client's own priorities. It helps when someone needs space to name difficult feelings and decide what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It is practical and helps with anxiety, low mood and patterns that keep guilt or shame alive by testing new ways of thinking and acting.
Existential therapy explores questions of meaning, choice and values. It can help when someone is facing life changes, identity struggles or questions about purpose.
Finding the best approach is part of the work. Zoe will collaborate with each client to choose methods that suit their goals, preferences and what they want to change. This means adjusting techniques and pace over time rather than sticking to a single method.
The practical benefits of online sessions include fitting therapy into a busy week and reducing travel time. If you want to book, please confirm the current session options before arranging a first appointment. The therapist's evening and weekend pattern can make it easier to schedule sessions around work or family commitments.
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Experience
5+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of guilt or shame does she work with?
She supports people dealing with guilt and shame linked to relationships, family, identity, faith or past actions.
How would she approach feelings of guilt or shame?
She combines client-centred listening with cognitive behavioural techniques to look at unhelpful thoughts and trial different responses.
What is her professional background?
She has five years of experience working in a range of settings and cultures, including support for people who have experienced homelessness.
Is she registered with a professional body in the UK?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, listed as BACP.
Are sessions available in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the UK work with her?
She does not accept international clients at present.
How are sessions arranged and paid for?
Fees vary with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.