Therapists for low self-esteem

Dr Marilyn is an integrative psychotherapeutic counsellor dedicated to helping clients achieve clarity and balance in their mental and emotional lives through individually tailored treatment plans. She expertly supports individuals navigating anxiety, childhood and past trauma, grief and loss, low self-esteem, and complex relationship issues including trust and family dynamics. Utilising modalities such as Transactional Analysis, Person-Centred, Gestalt, and trauma-informed therapies, Marilyn skillfully adapts her approach to meet diverse needs. She welcomes a broad spectrum of clients, including students, young adults, LGBTQ+ individuals, and professionals in demanding roles. In sessions, Marilyn balances deep emotional exploration with practical strategies, encouraging creative methods, exploring past experiences, and bringing awareness to non-verbal cues. Known for being robust, empathic, and solution-focused, she adeptly guides conversations while allowing clients to lead, using challenging questions and appropriate humour to help them reframe problems. Marilyn is committed to tracking progress and providing tools to foster personal growth, self-acceptance, and a more positive, grounded life.

Talia Shiloh offers a warm, non-judgmental, and empowering space for adults and young people aged 16 and over, guiding them through a wide spectrum of challenges. Drawing from an integrative approach, incorporating elements of CBT, psychodynamic, existential, and humanistic therapies, Talia supports clients grappling with issues like anxiety, trauma, relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, ADHD, personality disorders, and various behavioral and substance addictions. She excels at helping individuals who feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or stuck in unhelpful patterns, fostering self-understanding and meaningful change. Talia provides a balanced, client-led approach, offering practical tools, strategies, and deep reflections on both past experiences and present concerns. Sessions are collaborative and open-ended, flexibly adapting to each client's unique needs, and often include helpful resources or between-session tasks to support progress. She is dedicated to helping clients reframe problems, build robust support networks, and develop lasting strategies to prevent relapse. Talia's goal is to create a safe, collaborative environment where clients feel genuinely heard, understood, and empowered to achieve authentic, enduring growth.

Ioanna Karaoulani brings over 20 years of dedicated experience to supporting children, teenagers, young people, and adults through a wide range of challenges, including stress, anxiety, panic attacks, emotional turmoil, low self-esteem, and mood disorders like depression. Her expertise extends to navigating complex issues such as childhood trauma, PTSD, personality disorders, relationship difficulties, family challenges, and career transitions, as well as the unique experiences of immigrants, expats, and those seeking personal growth. Ioanna employs an eclectic and integrated therapeutic approach, drawing from Person-Centred, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness, Solution-Focused, Trauma Therapy, and Family Therapy modalities. She skilfully balances reflective space with practical guidance, focusing on deep emotional processes while providing actionable strategies and tools, including carefully selected homework and recommended resources. Ioanna flexibly adapts her methods to each client's unique needs, working primarily with present concerns and exploring past experiences when relevant, to help them reframe problems and build robust support networks. She is particularly adept at encouraging clients to discover their own solutions, fostering independence and resilience, and is praised for being a caring, listening, proactive, and engaging expert who challenges clients to challenge themselves. Ioanna is dedicated to empowering individuals to take an active role in their healing journey, offering praise, encouragement, and relapse prevention tools to ensure lasting well-being, and collaborates with other professionals for comprehensive support when needed.

Candy is an experienced therapist dedicated to supporting both adults and young people (aged 11-25) through a range of life's complexities. She specializes in addressing deep-seated anxiety, fostering self-reflection and personal growth, and building robust self-esteem, while also expertly navigating issues of racial and cultural identity. Her practice further focuses on enhancing communication and conflict resolution, alongside broader concerns such as depression, loneliness, and stress. Utilizing an integrative approach that blends Person-Centred and Psychodynamic therapies, Candy flexibly adapts each session to your unique needs, allowing you to lead while she focuses on deep emotional processes and experiences. She excels at helping individuals reframe challenges and gain new perspectives, drawing from a 'mix methods' approach to create a truly personalized journey. Candy frequently supports career-focused professionals, students, young adults, immigrants, expats, and individuals from diverse ethnic and cultural communities, understanding the unique pressures and experiences within these groups. Clients can expect a collaborative and empathetic space where they are truly seen, heard, and empowered to connect with their authentic selves and navigate their path forward.

Kamila (Kam) Sosnowy-Trzeciak creates a warm, supportive, and non-judgmental space for a diverse range of clients, including students, parents, individuals in high-responsibility roles, and those navigating neurodiversity, mental health diagnoses, or significant life transitions. She offers profound support for those experiencing stress, anxiety, low mood, depression, trauma, relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, and issues like procrastination or grief. Kam’s practice is rooted in person-centred therapy, fostering a secure environment where clients feel truly safe, heard, and understood, while also integrating mindfulness and drawing on elements of CBT, existential, and play therapy for a holistic approach. She expertly balances space for reflection with gentle guidance, focusing on deep emotional processes and exploring how past experiences may influence present concerns, always adapting flexibly to each client's unique journey within an open-ended timeframe. Clients are encouraged to explore their identity, find their own solutions, and leave sessions feeling lighter, more confident, and equipped with practical insights. Kam's authentic, empathetic, and caring presence ensures that every client feels valued, seen, and empowered to make a meaningful difference in their life.

Grigore Pitis deeply understands how unresolved childhood trauma can ripple through adult life, manifesting as anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, and various addictions. He compassionately supports a diverse range of clients, from students and young adults to older adults, veterans, and those in emergency services, addressing issues such as low self-esteem, emotional turmoil, guilt, shame, personality disorders, and the profound impact of violence, abuse, and stress-related disorders like PTSD. He is also adept at helping individuals navigate panic attacks, loneliness, adapting to new living conditions, emigration, and various behavioural or substance addictions. Utilising a powerful blend of Integrative Therapy, Transactional Analysis, and Trauma Therapy, Grigore focuses on deep emotional processes and meticulously explores past experiences to understand their present impact. In his open-ended therapy, clients experience a safe, grounded, and supportive environment where reflection is balanced with practical tools and strategies, all tailored flexibly to their unique needs. He provides consistent praise and encouragement for progress, integrating diverse therapeutic approaches and creative methods like art or imagery, often using metaphors to facilitate understanding. Grigore's goal is to empower clients to gain control over their lives, manage emotional turmoil, and build lasting resilience, equipping them with practical tools for ongoing well-being and relapse prevention.

Amber is an integrative therapist who supports individuals navigating a wide range of emotional and psychological challenges — including anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, grief, loneliness, and the impact of life transitions. She works with children, adolescents, and adults alike, including clients facing school-related stress, relationship overwhelm, social isolation, or the effects of neurodiversity and mental health diagnoses. Amber’s therapeutic approach combines structured reflection with emotional depth, helping clients gently explore their past while building insight into present-day challenges. Sessions are always tailored — guided by the client’s pace and needs — and grounded in compassion, emotional safety, and mutual trust. Through this process, Amber empowers individuals to reframe difficulties, strengthen resilience, and reconnect with a more balanced and fulfilling sense of self.

Simone Heath warmly welcomes all clients, fostering a safe space for free self-expression, healing, and exploration, grounded in her integrative approach with strong foundations in Psychodynamic, Person-Centred, and Psychoanalytic therapies. Her expertise spans a wide array of individual concerns, including anxiety, stress, panic attacks, anger management, sleep problems, and deep dives into self-reflection, personal growth, low self-esteem, loneliness, and emotional turmoil, addressing issues like guilt, shame, trust, and personal boundaries. Simone also provides compassionate support for complex challenges such as childhood and past trauma, violence and abuse, stress-related disorders like PTSD, mood disorders, and navigating difficult relationship dynamics including family conflicts, romantic issues, codependency, and abusive relationships. She guides clients through significant life transitions like grief and loss, adapting to new living conditions, emigration, age-related crises, and career challenges, job loss, work-life balance, and financial stress. Simone's inclusive practice extends to diverse groups, including older adults and seniors, students and young adults, ethnic and cultural communities, and survivors of abuse and violence. During sessions, she flexibly adapts to each client's unique needs, balancing guidance with client-led exploration; she focuses on deep emotional processes, often exploring past experiences to understand their present impact, while also addressing current concerns. Clients can expect a collaborative environment in which she helps reframe problems, encourages them to find their own solutions, and offers encouragement for progress, ultimately aiming to build self-awareness, communication skills, and tools to prevent recurrence.

Penny offers an integrative therapeutic approach, providing a warm and supportive space for clients navigating significant life challenges. She specializes in addressing core issues such as anxiety, low self-esteem, loneliness, gender identity, and the profound impact of guilt and shame. Penny frequently supports individuals who are grappling with a sense of inauthenticity, struggling to adapt to life’s changes, or processing distressing past situations. Her practice often welcomes a diverse range of clients, including LGBTQ+ individuals, students, young adults, parents, caregivers, and career-focused professionals. Sessions with Penny are distinctly client-led, empowering individuals to guide their own therapeutic journey while deeply exploring how past experiences continue to shape their present. She skillfully integrates various therapeutic methods, adapting flexibly to each client’s unique needs and fostering a collaborative path toward understanding and healing.

Aimee Paulin is a warm and empathic therapist who embraces a humanistic and person-centred approach, deeply believing in each individual's inherent capacity for growth and healing within a safe, confidential space. She provides support for a wide array of concerns, most notably anxiety, low self-esteem, grief, and challenges related to work-life balance, stress, panic attacks, and childhood trauma. Her experience extends to addressing mood disorders, behavioral difficulties like eating disorders and self-harm, as well as complex relationship issues, life transitions, and issues stemming from abuse and violence. Aimee has a rich background supporting diverse client groups including students, young adults, parents, caregivers, career-focused professionals, and individuals navigating job loss or financial stress. In her sessions, clients can expect a truly collaborative and client-led experience, focusing on deep emotional processes and present concerns within an open-ended timeframe. She adeptly integrates practical tools, explores the impact of past experiences, and offers consistent encouragement, while adapting flexibly to each client's unique needs. Aimee empowers clients to discover their own solutions, reframe problems, and build robust coping strategies, fostering greater self-understanding and confidence. Her approach is rooted in compassion, aiming to help clients reconnect with their strengths and create positive, lasting change in their lives.

Claire is a Gestalt therapist dedicated to supporting individuals ready for profound change, particularly when their current coping strategies are no longer effective. She brings extensive experience to clients navigating anxiety, low self-esteem, grief, and loss, as well as those adapting to new life conditions, seeking deeper meaning, or addressing behavioural disorders like eating disorders, alongside significant career transitions and development. Utilising her expertise in Gestalt therapy, Claire focuses intensely on present concerns and deep emotional processes, fostering self-reflection and personal growth within open-ended, client-led sessions. Her empathetic approach is particularly beneficial for diverse groups, including career-focused professionals, expecting parents, older adults, students, and individuals managing job loss, financial stress, neurodiversity, or high-responsibility roles. Claire flexibly adapts each session to individual needs, actively engaging clients through creative methods, metaphors, and an awareness of body language, all while encouraging them to discover their own solutions. She provides consistent praise and encouragement for progress, recommends valuable resources, and, when necessary, collaborates with other professionals to ensure comprehensive support. Ultimately, Claire empowers her clients to reframe challenges, build robust support networks, and move forward with greater understanding and a renewed sense of purpose.

Jane is a warm and authentic Person-Centred counsellor who meets clients exactly where they are, offering open-ended therapy that adapts flexibly to individual needs. She specializes in supporting adults grappling with anxiety and fear, anger management, low self-esteem, and the profound impact of childhood and past trauma. Jane often explores deep emotional processes, understanding that many current struggles, including communication difficulties in relationships and people-pleasing tendencies, frequently stem from unresolved childhood experiences. In sessions, she encourages clients to lead, exploring past experiences and their present-day impact, while skillfully integrating different therapeutic approaches. Jane uses metaphors and appropriate humour, bringing awareness to non-verbal cues to foster deeper self-understanding and empower clients to discover their own solutions. She provides a genuinely supportive space where clients can feel heard, understood, and confident in their capacity for growth and change.

Sam offers a warm, supportive, and encouraging space for individuals seeking to explore deep emotional processes and experiences, particularly those grappling with low self-esteem, neurodivergent experiences, existential questions, and challenges around personal boundaries. He often works with clients navigating work-related stress, burnout, relationship difficulties, and creative blocks, who may feel stuck, unfulfilled, or disconnected from their purpose and meaning in life. Sam's integrative transpersonal psychotherapy approach flexibly adapts to each client's unique needs, balancing guided reflection with client-led exploration, and often delving into past experiences to understand their current impact. In sessions, clients can expect to find insight into repeating patterns, develop emotional regulation, and build resilience to engage with life more authentically. Known for his empathic, gentle, and intellectually curious nature, Sam utilises creative methods and metaphors to help clients reframe problems and discover new perspectives. He encourages clients to find their own solutions, fostering greater agency and a profound sense of self-acceptance. This open-ended therapeutic journey welcomes the exploration of complex philosophical and spiritual questions, providing a safe container for all perspectives, whether navigating mood disorders, grief, or family dynamics.

Louisa Addo-Williams is a compassionate and insightful therapist dedicated to supporting adults and couples navigating relationship challenges, stress, and significant life transitions. She offers a reflective and collaborative space to explore deep emotional processes, often tracing how past experiences, including childhood and trauma, influence present struggles such as anxiety, low self-esteem, emotional turmoil, and relationship difficulties. Utilising an integrative approach that blends Psychodynamic, Trauma-Informed, and Person-Centred therapies, Louisa adapts flexibly to each client's needs within an open-ended framework. She works with diverse groups, including career-focused professionals, parents, students, older adults, and individuals from various ethnic and cultural communities, as well as those navigating job loss, financial stress, or life abroad. Louisa excels at balancing space for client-led exploration with gentle guidance, encouraging a deeper understanding of oneself by bringing awareness to body language, using metaphors, and asking thought-provoking questions. Her approach empowers clients to reframe problems, cultivate new perspectives, and discover their own solutions for greater clarity and more fulfilling relationships.

Erin Thompson is an integrative counselling psychotherapist dedicated to supporting all adults in navigating life's complexities. She offers a warm, confidential, and empowering space to address a broad spectrum of issues, including anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, grief, and relational challenges. Her expertise extends to childhood and past trauma, stress, mood disorders, personal boundaries, neurodiversity, and career transitions, among many other individual concerns. Utilizing her comprehensive training in Integrative, Cognitive Behavioural (CBT), and Person-Centred therapies, Erin skillfully balances providing structure and guidance with allowing clients to lead their sessions. She emphasizes deep emotional processing while equipping clients with practical tools, strategies, and resources, often exploring how past experiences shape present challenges and offering homework to support progress. Erin is particularly adept at working with diverse groups such as career-focused professionals, students, LGBTQ+ individuals, and those managing mental health diagnoses or neurodiversity. In your journey together, you can expect a flexible and collaborative approach where she tracks progress, provides encouragement, and helps reframe problems, fostering resilience and offering solutions for lasting change.

Puja is a compassionate and experienced counsellor dedicated to supporting young adults and adults navigating complex challenges such as trauma, relationship difficulties, and struggles with low self-worth. She excels in addressing significant concerns like stress, anxiety, panic attacks, sleep problems, and low self-esteem, alongside deep-seated issues stemming from childhood trauma, grief, loss, and the pain of breakups and divorce. Utilising a highly integrative approach, Puja draws from Person-Centred, CBT, Trauma Therapy, Psychodynamic, and Solution-Focused techniques, thoughtfully adapting her methods to each individual’s unique journey. Clients can expect a balanced space for reflection and guidance, where Puja flexibly helps explore both present concerns and the profound impact of past experiences, equipping them with practical tools and strategies for meaningful change. She extends her supportive expertise to diverse groups including students, expecting and new parents, career-focused professionals, and survivors of abuse and violence, creating a safe environment for all to find their voice and heal. Puja guides clients in reframing problems, building resilience, and developing a stronger, more compassionate sense of self, ensuring they feel heard, understood, and empowered to create more balanced and fulfilling lives.

Alex offers a deeply supportive and psychodynamic approach, creating a collaborative space where clients are empowered to lead their sessions, enriched by a thoughtful balance of reflection and expert guidance. He holds a strong belief that profound self-understanding stems from exploring deep emotional processes and how past experiences shape present motivations, always respecting each individual's unique background and beliefs. Alex is particularly adept at supporting clients navigating significant issues such as stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, a pervasive loss of meaning, and challenges in achieving work-life balance or overcoming burnout. His integrative methodology allows him to flexibly adapt to each client’s specific needs, expertly helping them to reframe problems and gain fresh perspectives. He effectively supports diverse client groups, including career-focused professionals, expecting and new parents, LGBTQ+ individuals, and those in high-responsibility roles, and readily collaborates with other professionals when it benefits the client’s journey. Ultimately, Alex guides clients towards developing new ways of being, fostering greater self-awareness and empowering them to find resolutions that genuinely honour their authentic selves and life circumstances.

Leah offers a warm and supportive space for adults navigating anxiety, depression, and bereavement. She also provides compassionate guidance for those experiencing emotional turmoil, low self-esteem, loss and search for meaning, and the lasting impact of trauma. Drawing on an integrative approach, Leah blends Person-Centred and Psychodynamic therapies to create a unique therapeutic journey tailored to your individual needs. Her practice is open-ended, allowing ample time to explore how past experiences might be influencing your present while empowering you to discover your own solutions and paths forward. Leah works with a diverse range of individuals, including students, young adults, older adults, emergency service workers, and survivors of abuse and violence, as well as people with mental health diagnoses. In sessions, you can expect to feel deeply heard and understood, gaining a greater sense of clarity over your thoughts and feelings, and finding hope for a brighter future.

Tim specializes in supporting adults who are grappling with relationship difficulties and entrenched negative life patterns, often rooted in early childhood experiences. Utilizing Transactional Analysis as his core modality, Tim creates a space for profound self-reflection and personal growth, adeptly addressing concerns such as low self-esteem, the lasting impact of childhood and past trauma, grief and loss, and phobias. His therapeutic approach deeply explores past experiences to understand their influence on current challenges, believing that how one shows up in therapy reflects how they show up in life. Tim adapts flexibly to each client's unique needs, often employing rich metaphors to explain complex emotional processes and facilitate insight. He is particularly dedicated to assisting veterans and active duty service members, guiding them through their specific challenges with understanding and care. Clients can anticipate a warm, supportive, and empathetic therapeutic relationship designed to empower them towards lasting change.

Stefan offers a deeply supportive and professional space for adults navigating life's complexities, with a particular focus on those experiencing significant stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and mood disorders like depression, alongside challenges in romantic or family relationships. He commonly works with clients adjusting to major life changes, dealing with workplace pressure, or seeking to understand past experiences that continue to resonate. Stefan's integrative approach, rooted in Person-Centred and Psychodynamic therapies, allows him to adapt flexibly to each individual's unique journey, fostering deep emotional processing and exploring the profound impact of past experiences on the present. He creates an environment where clients feel truly heard, encouraging them to find their own solutions and providing consistent praise and encouragement for their progress. Stefan supports a diverse clientele, including older adults, students, immigrants, parents, caregivers, and professionals in high-responsibility roles, believing everyone possesses unique strengths. Using metaphors to illuminate experiences, his sessions provide clarity and a safe path towards growth, without the pressure of formal homework.