- Years in practice
- 5
- Registration
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Grief
About Heather
Heather Oddy is a counsellor who uses practical, person-centred approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety and parenting challenges. She holds the NCPS credential and draws on a mix of therapies to support people through grief, depression and relationship concerns. Heather adapts her work to each person’s needs.
Sessions focus on clear goals and small steps that can be tried between meetings. She also works with people coping with trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, sleep or eating issues, and overwhelm from caring roles.
Background and approach
Her background includes a range of psychological approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-based ideas, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. She blends these to match practical problems, helping people think about patterns, feelings and everyday choices. Over five years Heather has supported people dealing with ADHD worries, compassion fatigue, career change and continuity after loss.
She also addresses more specific concerns like adoption and foster care matters, body image, chronic illness, and communication or control issues. Heather maintains regular clinical supervision under the NCPS framework and continues to extend her skills. Her style is collaborative and straightforward, focusing on what can change now and what people can learn about themselves as they move forward.
What Heather works with
Everything Heather lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Heather helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Heather lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Heather's approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice where they get stuck and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress and parenting-related struggles where practical steps matter.Attachment-based ideas focus on patterns in close relationships and how early experiences shape reactions today. This approach can help with intimacy issues, communication problems and feelings rooted in abandonment or attachment worries.
Heather will work collaboratively to find the best combination of methods for each person. She discusses goals and preferences at the start and adapts the plan as work progresses, so the approach grows from the client’s needs rather than being fixed in advance.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and reading non-verbal cues, phone calls need less bandwidth and can be easier during busy days, and messaging suits quick check-ins or those who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around family life, work and other commitments while keeping the focus on practical change and emotional support.
Questions people ask about Heather
What concerns does Heather help with?
Heather supports people with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, depression and many relationship and parenting-related issues.
What is Heather's therapy style?
She uses a blend of approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-based ideas, Client-Centred work and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy tailored to each person.
How much experience does Heather have?
Heather has five years of professional experience working with a wide range of concerns and continues clinical development through supervision.
What credentials and country are listed?
Heather holds the NCPS credential and is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Heather offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions paid for?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with Heather?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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