Mim McConachie, BACP

Mim McConachie is a counsellor who focuses on helping people who struggle to speak up, set boundaries and manage anxiety. She speaks plainly about the experience of people-pleasing and offers a calm, steady presence for clients who want to start prioritising themselves. Mim uses her own experiences to relate to clients who find saying no difficult and who want a gentler path to change.

Mim works in an integrative way, tailoring conversations and tools to each person rather than following a fixed recipe. She takes time to understand your situation and picks approaches that suit your needs and pace. Sessions are designed to feel respectful and manageable, with an emphasis on building confidence and practical skills.

Typical areas she helps with include stress and anxiety, relationship difficulties, family-related concerns, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. She also supports people dealing with attachment questions, body image, communication problems, control issues, guilt and shame, isolation or loneliness, purpose in life, self-love, and social anxiety and phobia.

Mim has four years of experience and holds BACP accreditation, which indicates membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She works with people in the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English. International clients are not currently accepted.

To begin, clients select the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire. Sessions are arranged according to her availability and use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.

Approaches that help with boundaries and anxiety

Mim draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to support people feeling overwhelmed by people-pleasing and anxiety. One approach she uses helps people recognise unhelpful thinking patterns and learn simple skills to reduce anxious reactions and feel more in control. Another approach focuses on understanding patterns of relating and attachment, which can help people see why they find it hard to ask for what they need and build different habits for connection.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mim treats therapy as a collaboration and will discuss different methods with each person. Together she and the client decide which tools and ways of working feel most useful for the client's goals and pace.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Please confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not listed in her biography. When choosing a way to meet, think about practical benefits such as avoiding travel, fitting a session into a lunch break, or choosing a shorter check-in when energy is low. Registered or accredited professionals can offer flexible ways to meet that help therapy fit around everyday routines rather than adding extra burden.