Counselling · Stevenage & online
Therapy for a more spacious future.
You take the strain. Problem solving. Serving others. No room for error. No space to breathe. Let's open things up — together.
What I work with
The things that bring people
to a therapy room. Plainly named.
You don't need a diagnosis to begin. Most clients arrive with a feeling, not a label. We start there.
Pressure & pace
Burnout
When the engine you've run on for years quietly stops turning over.
Work stress
Roles that have outgrown the person doing them — and what to do with that.
Overwhelm
Too much, for too long, with nowhere safe to put any of it down.
Inner weather
Anxiety
The unhelpful kind — the kind that wakes you at 3am and won't say why.
Low mood
Not the dramatic dark — the flat, grey, going-through-the-motions kind.
Grief & loss
Including the losses that don't have a name, or that no one else has noticed.
Who you are
Identity
Questions about who you've become and who you actually want to be.
Relationships
Patterns you keep finding yourself in — at home, at work, in love.
Meaning
What this is all for. What's worth your remaining time and attention.
Not seeing what you're carrying on this list? It's still worth a 15-minute conversation — let's talk.
The approach
A quiet room.
An honest hour.
Therapy with me is unhurried and grown-up. No scripts, no jargon — just careful conversation that takes seriously what you bring, and the parts you've never quite said out loud.
"Most of the people I work with are competent, capable, and quietly exhausted. Therapy is the one place they don't have to perform."
- IntegrativePsychodynamic roots, drawing on attachment, somatic, and existential work.
- ConfidentialA protected space. What's said here, stays here.
- Long or shortTime-limited focus or open-ended depth work.
- In person or onlineStevenage practice room or secure video.
A voice, not a photo
Hear how I sound before we meet.
Choosing a therapist is mostly about whether the voice on the other side feels safe. Sixty seconds — unscripted — so you can listen before you decide.
Who I work with
If any of this sounds familiar, you're in the right place.
You're the strong one
The person everyone leans on. The one who holds it together at work and at home.
You're high-functioning, quietly stuck
Outside it looks fine. Inside something is tired, flat, or pressing.
You're at a threshold
A relationship, a role, a life stage — something is asking to be looked at honestly.
You've tried to think your way out
Reading, journalling, lists. It helps a little. It isn't enough.
In their words
What clients say (anonymously).
Shared with explicit permission. Identifying details removed.
The first room in years where I didn't have to be the competent one. I didn't realise how exhausting that had become.
Andrew is unhurried in a way that takes some getting used to. After a few weeks I noticed I was talking differently — to him, and to myself.
I came in to fix one thing and ended up looking at the shape of the whole life. That sounds dramatic. It wasn't. It was quiet and useful.
In Andrew's own words
Competent, capable,
quietly exhausted.
- 2009First trained in counselling skills.
- 2014MSc Integrative Psychotherapy.
- TodayBACP-registered. Stevenage + online.
About Andrew
A therapist who takes your time seriously.
Before training as a therapist I spent years in high-pressure, problem-solving roles — I know the territory from the inside.
Psychodynamic, relational, existential. Slow attention to what you actually feel — without rush, advice, or performance.
From the journal
Short essays. Plainly said.
The quiet cost of being the strong one
What happens to the person everyone leans on when there's no one left to lean on themselves.
Anxiety isn't the enemy. It's a messenger.
Why trying to silence your anxiety often makes it louder — and what to listen for instead.
What to expect from a first session
A plain-English walkthrough — what we'll talk about, what we won't, and what you don't need to prepare.
The next step
Book a free
15-minute call.
No forms to fill in beyond your name and a time that works. We'll talk briefly, you'll ask anything you want, and you'll know if it feels right.
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