Anna Channon, BACP

Anna Channon is a BACP counsellor with four years of client work. She is an integrative relational counsellor who often supports people feeling disconnected from themselves and their bodies. She commonly meets clients who have experienced acute or ongoing trauma and who want to understand themselves better so they can make changes.

She trained to degree level in Psychotherapeutic Counselling and has been working with clients since 2020. Anna brings a practical, down-to-earth approach. Sessions can include talking, breath work, gentle movement and creative exercises - no artistic skill needed. These tools are used to help people access feelings that can feel stuck in the body.

Anna has experience with bereavement and loss, trauma and sexual abuse, anxiety, depression and stress. She also supports people through life changes, relationship challenges, sleeping and eating difficulties, and issues around self-esteem and attachment. She lists midlife crisis among her areas of focus when people are reassessing life direction.

Her work is relational and person-centred, aiming to build understanding of patterns that repeat in relationships and internal life. Clients who prefer an approach that links body and mind often find this useful. Anna notes that she will be on maternity leave from the start of February 2025 and is suited to short or medium-term work before that date.

Those interested are invited to ask questions about how sessions might look. Anna offers a conversational, exploratory style and helps people set clear, manageable goals for the time they choose to work together.

How Anna’s approaches translate to online work

Anna uses attachment-informed and trauma-focused ways of working that link thoughts, feelings and the body. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and can help with communication, trust and feeling connected to oneself. Trauma-focused therapy pays attention to how distressing events affect memory, sensations and behaviour, and it aims to help people reduce distress and regain a sense of control.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. Anna will discuss goals, preferences and what feels manageable, and then adapt methods so the work fits the person. The first sessions often focus on understanding concerns and deciding which techniques to use going forward.

Practical benefits of online therapy can include fitting sessions into a busy week and reducing travel time. Some people find it easier to try breath work or gentle movement from their own space, while others prefer shorter check-ins when time is tight. The biography does not list specific session formats here, so please confirm the current online or face-to-face options before booking.