Therapists for low self-esteem

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Paula Rea is an empathetic integrative therapist, drawing upon key modalities such as Person-Centred, Gestalt, Psychodynamic, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to create a deeply supportive environment. She works with a diverse group of adults aged 18-80, helping them navigate significant challenges including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, neurodiversity, and complex relationship issues. Paula specializes in profound areas like childhood trauma, stress-related disorders, substantial grief and loss, and mood disorders, always aiming to foster self-reflection and personal growth. Her therapeutic style is flexible and open-ended, balancing guided conversations with client-led exploration, often delving into past experiences to illuminate present impacts while providing practical tools and strategies. Clients consistently feel seen and heard, empowered to make choices that shape their lives, as Paula offers consistent encouragement, collaboratively tracking progress, and reframing problems from new perspectives. She skillfully integrates various methods, utilizes metaphors, and brings awareness to non-verbal cues, while also recommending resources to support their journey. Paula is dedicated to helping clients find their own solutions, build robust support networks, and prevent relapse, ensuring a comprehensive and adaptable therapeutic experience.

Yong brings a warm and person-centred approach, specialising in supporting adults who are grappling with low self-esteem, anxiety, and fear, which can manifest in various aspects of their lives, from work to home. She possesses a particular expertise in working with neurodiversity, including autism and ADHD, fostering environments conducive to self-reflection and personal growth. Yong's compassionate care extends to a wide array of clients, including individuals with disabilities, mental health diagnoses, LGBTQ+ people, students, young adults, and those identifying as neurodiverse. Her sessions are deeply client-led, adapting flexibly to each individual's unique needs while often exploring past experiences to understand their current impact. Yong integrates diverse therapeutic approaches, skillfully using metaphors and appropriate humour to help clients reframe problems, gain new perspectives, and discover their own empowering solutions. She consistently offers praise and encouragement for progress, providing valuable tools to prevent relapse and build resilience for lasting well-being.

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.

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.

Richard is an integrative therapist who offers a warm, structured space for individuals navigating profound emotional and behavioural challenges. His areas of focus include guilt, shame, intimacy difficulties, low self-esteem, and a wide spectrum of addictions — both substance-related (alcohol, drugs, smoking) and behavioural (gaming, gambling, pornography). Richard combines Person-Centred, Psychodynamic, CBT, DBT, and Trauma Therapy approaches to create personalised support that adapts to each client’s unique journey. He works with a diverse client base, including LGBTQ+ individuals, neurodivergent adults, high-performing professionals, and survivors of trauma and abuse. In every case, his work is grounded in understanding how past experiences shape current difficulties — helping clients process pain, reframe limiting beliefs, and access new ways of coping and connecting. His practice also extends to supporting anxiety, depression, insomnia, and relationship struggles, with a consistent focus on helping people reconnect with their sense of agency and worth.

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.

Nigel Jordan offers a warm, non-judgmental, and highly integrative approach, ensuring clients feel truly seen, heard, and deeply understood. Drawing upon a rich blend of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Psychodynamic, Person-Centred, Solution-Focused, and Trauma Therapy, Nigel adeptly supports adults navigating complex issues such as significant stress, anxiety, depressive episodes, loneliness, and the profound impact of childhood and past trauma, including race-based trauma. He works flexibly at your pace, balancing deep reflection on past experiences with practical tools and strategies to address present concerns. Your therapeutic journey is uniquely tailored, adapting precisely to your specific needs and challenges, whether you're grappling with low self-esteem, work-life balance issues, or seeking profound self-reflection and personal growth. Nigel frequently recommends enriching resources and encourages creative methods to deepen understanding. He is highly skilled in supporting a diverse range of individuals, from career-focused professionals, those in high-responsibility roles, immigrants, expats, parents, and caregivers, to members of various ethnic and cultural communities, especially when adapting to new living conditions or facing significant career transitions. Throughout therapy, Nigel provides consistent praise and encouragement, meticulously tracks progress, and keeps you informed on your therapeutic journey, equipping you with robust tools to reframe challenges and prevent relapse. His ultimate goal is to empower you to find clarity, foster emotional resilience, and build robust support networks for lasting well-being and self-actualisation.

Teresa Readhead is an empathetic and approachable therapist dedicated to creating a warm, non-judgmental space for adults navigating life's challenges. She supports individuals grappling with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, low self-esteem, and significant life transitions, including career changes, relationship difficulties, and age-related crises. Specialising further in neurodiversity, particularly ADHD, and supporting those exploring gender identity or identifying as LGBTQ+, Teresa offers a truly inclusive environment. Her integrative approach flexibly blends Person-Centred Therapy, CBT, DBT, Mindfulness, and Psychodynamic techniques, ensuring therapy is tailored to your unique journey. Sessions balance client-led exploration with gentle guidance, focusing on deep emotional processes while also equipping you with practical tools, strategies, and resources for personal growth. Teresa frequently helps clients explore past experiences, reframe present challenges, build robust support networks, and discover their own solutions for lasting positive change. Whether you seek short-term, goal-oriented support or open-ended therapy, she encourages self-reflection, celebrates progress, and may offer optional tasks to empower you on your path.

Claire Ashby offers a warm, integrative, and person-centred therapeutic approach, deeply committed to helping clients navigate anxiety, sleep difficulties like insomnia, ADHD, and the unique challenges of neurodivergence. Drawing on her extensive training, she flexibly integrates hypnotherapy, mindfulness, and trauma-informed strategies, creating a safe and non-judgemental space for profound exploration. As a neurodivergent therapist herself, Claire brings a profound level of empathy and understanding to her work, ensuring a neuro-affirming environment tailored to individual needs and communication styles. She guides clients through concerns such as panic attacks, phobias, OCD, and stress-related disorders, helping them reduce anxiety, manage intrusive thoughts, and reclaim confidence to live more fulfilling lives. Sessions are client-led, allowing you to explore past experiences and their present impact, while also offering practical tools, strategies, and psychoeducation, including techniques from CBT for Insomnia, to support immediate well-being. Claire is dedicated to empowering clients to find their own solutions, celebrating their strengths, and fostering self-awareness to build resilience and prevent relapse through open-ended therapy. She actively collaborates with clients to reframe problems and encourages re-engagement with life's joys, providing praise and encouragement every step of the way.

Jose works with adults and young people navigating a spectrum of challenges, from daily stress, anxiety, and mood disorders like depression to profound emotional turmoil, guilt, and shame. He offers dedicated support for those undergoing major life transitions, exploring gender identity, or coping with the impact of bullying, violence, abuse, and family or romantic relationship breakdowns, including betrayal, jealousy, and communication difficulties. His practice is deeply inclusive, providing a safe and affirming space for neurodiverse clients (including ADHD and Autism) and LGBTQ+ individuals, alongside career-focused professionals, parents, and those facing addiction, job loss, or financial stress. Employing an integrative approach, José expertly blends Person-Centred, Psychodynamic, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), often exploring past experiences to illuminate their present impact while focusing on deep emotional processes. In sessions, clients experience a collaborative environment where their insights lead, while José provides balanced guidance, structure, and thoughtful reframing to help them find their own solutions and build strong support networks. He values transparency, tracks progress, offers praise, and uses appropriate humour, collaborating with other professionals when beneficial. José’s ultimate aim is to empower clients to gain clarity, cultivate self-acceptance, and create meaningful, lasting change at a pace that feels right for them, without typically assigning homework.

Matthew is a compassionate therapist who offers a calm, grounded, and deeply relational space, inviting clients to explore their inner world at their own pace. Drawing upon integrative, person-centred, and psychodynamic approaches, Matthew tailors his work to individual needs, allowing clients to lead their sessions. He specializes in supporting those navigating significant challenges such as anxiety, fear, depression, mood disorders, grief, loss, childhood and past trauma, and stress-related disorders like PTSD. Matthew works with clients from all walks of life, with specific expertise in supporting young people aged 16-25 (including those in or leaving care), and adults grappling with the weight of past trauma or negative self-beliefs. His practice also extends to older adults, students, parents/caregivers, survivors of abuse and violence, individuals from diverse ethnic and cultural communities, and those in skilled trades and manual worker roles. Clients can expect an environment where they feel genuinely heard and held, a safe space to untangle complex emotions and reconnect with their inner sense of direction. Matthew's aim is to foster a therapeutic journey where vulnerability is met with unwavering support, empowering individuals to discover their authentic path to healing.

Louise is a compassionate and grounded Person-Centred therapist, dedicated to supporting individuals through profound life challenges such as stress, anxiety, pervasive loneliness, unresolved grief, and the search for meaning and purpose. She possesses specific expertise in empowering women diagnosed with Autism or ADHD later in life, guiding clients through neurodivergence burnout, and addressing the intricate dynamics of relationship difficulties, including step and blended family challenges. In her client-led sessions, Louise fosters an open-ended space for deep exploration of present concerns and emotional processes, always adapting flexibly to your unique needs. She attentively brings awareness to body language, helps you reframe problems from fresh perspectives, and consistently tracks progress while encouraging you to discover your own solutions. With Louise, you will build robust support networks in daily life, gaining clarity and self-awareness. Her approach empowers you to reconnect with your core values and make decisions that truly align with your authentic self, all within a safe, genuine, and respectful therapeutic relationship.