About Simone
Simone Simonetti is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who blends somatic awareness with talking therapies. He aims to help people manage stress and anxiety, work through trauma and abuse, and address relationship and LGBT concerns. Simone communicates in English, Spanish and Italian and uses online sessions to reach people across the UK.
He trained as a counsellor and holds BACP registration, which means he follows professional standards set by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Background and approach
Simone has three years of clinical experience supporting people with depression, attachment issues and body image concerns. He keeps sessions straightforward and rooted in what clients say they need. Simone combines somatic techniques with attachment-based and client-centred ways of working.
That lets him notice how emotions show up in the body, and also focus on relationships and personal meaning. He adapts his approach to each person rather than using a fixed formula. In a typical session he listens closely, reflects what he hears, and offers gentle suggestions or exercises.
Practical tools may include grounding, breathing, or noticing body sensations alongside talking through thoughts and beliefs. The aim is to build everyday skills that feel useful after the session ends. People come to him for a mix of short-term problem solving and deeper exploration of repeated patterns.
He works with a wide range of life issues including chronic pain, caregiving stress, eating and food-related concerns, and the effects of family of origin experiences.
How somatic and relational approaches work online
Somatic work helps people notice how emotions show up in the body and uses simple practices to relieve tension and increase bodily awareness. It can be helpful for anxiety, trauma responses, chronic pain and stress by teaching gentle ways to ground and regulate the nervous system.Attachment-based therapy focuses on patterns in relationships and early experiences that shape how someone connects with others. This approach helps identify repeated relational habits and supports building more supported ways of relating.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Simone will work collaboratively to decide whether somatic techniques, attachment work or client-centred listening fits best for your goals. He adapts methods over time based on what feels most useful to you.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility by using video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or health needs and let people access help from home. Simone uses these formats to share grounding exercises, discuss relational patterns, and offer follow-up ideas that can be practised between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Spanish, Italian