About Avril
Avril Harding is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who offers approachable, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, low mood and relationship difficulties. Her style is candid and grounded, with an emphasis on helping people make small, steady changes that improve daily life.
Avril aims to build a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk about worrying thoughts and hard feelings.
Background and approach
She draws on somatic ideas to help people notice how emotions show up in the body, and on cognitive-behavioural tools to shift unhelpful thoughts and patterns. Sessions are shaped around what the client needs in the moment rather than a fixed agenda. Her work also includes supporting clients with trauma and abuse, addictions, grief and intimacy-related concerns.
Avril uses attachment-based and client-centred approaches when relationship patterns are part of the problem. She encourages clear, practical steps alongside slower exploration of personal history when that feels useful. Avril has six years of professional experience and holds registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
She speaks English and is available to work with people in different countries. Therapy is offered through a mix of video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then arrange sessions that fit their schedule.
Avril aims to help clients feel steadier, clearer and better able to move forward in day-to-day life.
Approaches you can use online with a somatic focus
Somatic work helps people notice how stress and emotion show up in the body and offers simple ways to track and ease physical sensations tied to feelings. This can be useful for anxiety, trauma responses and persistent tension.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, invites people to clarify what matters to them and take small actions in line with those values while learning to accept difficult thoughts. It is helpful for stress, low mood and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early experiences affect trust and connection now. It can help when relationship issues or patterns of avoidance and clinginess cause pain.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Avril will explore what feels most helpful and adapt methods to the client’s needs, goals and preferences in a collaborative way. That means trying different tools and checking in about what is working.
Online therapy through video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging offers flexibility for busy schedules and for people living abroad. It makes it easier to fit sessions around work, childcare or travel, and allows continuity when life is unpredictable. Many people find the variety of formats supports steady progress over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English