About Abigail
Abigail Cruse is a counsellor who blends somatic and reflective approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief and addiction. She is a BACP member and works from the United Kingdom. Abigail aims to create a calm space where clients can bring difficult thoughts and feelings and feel heard without judgement.
Her sessions often combine attention to bodily experience with questions about meaning and personal stories. That mix can help when trauma, relationship pain or long-term worry feel stuck in the body as well as the mind.
Background and approach
Practical techniques and simple mindfulness practices are used alongside talking to help reduce overwhelm. Abigail has four years of hands-on experience supporting people through bereavement, relationship difficulties and substance-related concerns. She also helps with sleep problems, eating concerns, low self-esteem and coping with life changes.
Work can include looking at attachment patterns and family of origin issues that influence current relationships. People who come for support might be facing anger, loss, infertility stress, or compassion fatigue from caring roles. Abigail pays attention to how emotions show up physically and in stories about the past.
She encourages small, achievable steps that fit each person’s life. Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged online by scheduling through the service. Abigail aims to be collaborative and practical, helping clients set clear aims and notice gradual change over time.
How somatic and meaning-focused work translates to online therapy
Somatic therapy pays attention to how emotions appear in the body, such as tension, racing heartbeats or shallow breathing, and uses gentle awareness and movement to help people feel more settled. This approach can be useful for trauma, anxiety and patterns of overwhelm. Existential therapy looks at questions of meaning, purpose and how life events shape identity; it is often helpful for grief, major life changes and feelings of emptiness.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide whether to emphasise body-based practices, reflective questioning or mindfulness depending on the client’s needs and preferences. Goals and methods are revisited together as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These formats allow sessions around work and family commitments, support during periods of travel, and ongoing contact between appointments when appropriate. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt somatic exercises and reflective work for remote settings to keep therapy accessible and consistent with each person’s goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English