Siobhan Hopkins, BACP

Siobhan Hopkins offers calm, straightforward support for people facing difficult life chapters. She meets clients with warmth and patience, helping them talk through long-standing patterns, recent losses, or the strain of everyday stress. Sessions are paced to each person’s needs and focus on making sense of what’s happening now and why it matters.

Her approach centres on listening without quick fixes. Conversations focus on the person in front of her, their story, and the meanings they carry. That practical exploration aims to create clearer choices and less emotional overwhelm over time.

Siobhan has particular experience with relationship strain, grief and loss, parenting pressures, career uncertainty, and coping with major life changes. She also supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and the emotional effects of trauma and abuse. Additional areas she works with include addiction-related backgrounds, intimacy issues, anger, compassion fatigue, and a range of attachment and relational concerns.

Her training is reflected in a BACP credential, which she holds alongside an integrative way of working. She has studied at Newman University in Birmingham and has lived and practised in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the United States.

Siobhan welcomes conversations about spiritual or religious questions, including recovery from controlling faith experiences. She aims to help people reconnect with hope and personal strength, and she encourages clients to bring their whole story into therapy.

How her approaches shape online therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships influence feelings and behaviour now; it can help people who notice repeating patterns in closeness and distance. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on empathic listening and the client’s own pace, offering space to make sense of painful experiences without pressure. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and can be useful for tackling anxiety, low mood and unhelpful habits.

Choosing an approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss what feels most useful and will adapt methods as the work progresses. Clients and therapist decide together which combination best fits the goals and the way someone prefers to work.

Practical benefits of online therapy include being able to fit sessions into a busy week and reducing travel time. Online work can make it easier to maintain continuity during life changes, and it allows people to meet with a practitioner who has relevant experience even if they live elsewhere. Confirm current session options before booking so you know how appointments are arranged and can choose what suits your daily routine.