Sarah Porritt, BACP

Sarah Porritt is a counsellor with a decade of experience working with adults, young people and family concerns. She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), which provides an ethical framework for her practice. Sarah offers a calm, matter-of-fact presence for people who are worried or overwhelmed.

Her way of working is practical and down-to-earth. Sessions focus on talking through what is happening now, understanding patterns, and building simple tools to manage stress and anxiety. She draws on evidence-based techniques alongside person-centred listening and mindfulness exercises to help people gain clarity.

Sarah commonly helps people facing low mood, lack of motivation, life transitions, grief and uncertainty. She also supports work on self-esteem, communication problems and issues around attachment and abandonment. Midlife crisis features among the life-purpose and transition concerns she addresses.

In sessions she aims to make space for each person’s story and to offer strategies that can be used between meetings. Practical steps might include noticing unhelpful thinking, experimenting with small routine changes, or practising short mindfulness exercises.

Sarah describes her role as walking alongside people while they find their way forward. Her style is warm and straightforward, with a focus on helping people feel heard and giving them tools to cope and move on.

Approaches and online options for talking things through

Sarah uses a mix of practical, evidence-based techniques and person-centred listening. Cognitive approaches help identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns that feed anxiety and low mood, and can include simple steps to try between sessions. Person-centred work focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters to the person, helping them feel heard and understood.

Mindfulness practices are also offered in brief, accessible forms to reduce rumination and increase calm. These are short exercises you can use day to day to steady attention and notice difficult thoughts without getting swept away by them.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to agree which methods suit a person’s needs, goals and preferences, and may combine elements from different techniques as that fit becomes clearer.

Session formats are not specified in the original information, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives, reduce travel time and allow quieter check-ins during a work break or between commitments. It can also let people choose whether to use video, audio or another supported way of meeting depending on what works best for them and their bandwidth.