Sarah Dixon, BACP
Experienced counsellor using somatic and ACT-informed care
About Sarah
Sarah Dixon is a counsellor with 25 years of professional experience based in the United Kingdom. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression and major life changes. Sarah aims to listen without judgement and to adapt sessions to each person’s needs.
Her style is practical and down-to-earth. Sessions focus on what is happening now and on simple ways to cope. She uses talking alongside body-aware work to help people notice how feelings show up in the body and respond differently.
Background and approach
Sarah combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with attachment-informed ideas to help people clarify values and rebuild safer ways of relating. She also draws on cognitive behavioural methods to spot unhelpful thinking and try small behavioural experiments. Over two decades she has helped people manage parenting strain, relationship difficulties, addiction concerns and workplace stress.
She also supports those dealing with bereavement, chronic health issues, body image and neurodiversity-related challenges such as autism and attention differences. Sarah is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Sessions are offered in English and she works with people across the UK and internationally through online formats.
If you are ready to explore change, she offers a calm space to begin.
Practical approaches you can use online
Sarah combines Somatic work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-informed approaches. Somatic work helps people notice where stress and emotion sit in the body and learn gentle ways to regulate physical reactions, which can help with anxiety, trauma responses and sleep problems. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small actions that match those values, useful for depression, life changes and low motivation. Attachment-based ideas look at how early patterns of relating influence current relationships and help people build safer ways of connecting.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with you about your goals and preferences, and together you will choose methods that feel like a good fit. That collaborative process means approaches can be adjusted as you learn what helps.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy around parenting, work and mobility needs, and to continue work between appointments. Many people find online formats help them get support without long travel and fit therapy into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English