Geraldine Houston

Geraldine Houston is a counsellor with eight years of professional experience based in the United Kingdom. She offers calm, respectful sessions for people facing grief, addiction, anxiety, depression and many other struggles. Geraldine aims to make the first step easier by listening and helping you work out what matters most right now.

She keeps conversations simple and direct, and adapts the pace to each person's needs. Sessions focus on practical ways to cope, clearer thinking about difficult choices, and building small changes that add up. She works with concerns such as trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy-related issues, self-esteem, parenting strain, and mood difficulties including bipolar disorder.

Geraldine also addresses longer-term or complex stresses like compassion fatigue, hoarding, fertility and cancer-related distress, and hospice and end-of-life counselling. She helps people talk through feelings of abandonment, isolation, guilt and shame, and patterns connected to addiction or control issues. The approach is tuned to the situation and the person rather than a fixed formula.

Her practice follows standards set by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, recorded as BACP. Geraldine offers sessions in English and works with people both in the UK and internationally. The usual booking process uses a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.

To begin, clients use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability. Costs vary with location and scheduling arrangements.

How therapeutic approaches shape online work

Geraldine uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional processing. One common approach is task-focused work that helps people identify small, manageable steps to reduce stress or break unhelpful patterns. This suits worries like stress, addiction behaviours and low mood by turning broad goals into daily actions.

Another approach concentrates on working through painful memories and strong emotions at a steady pace. This kind of work helps people dealing with trauma, grief, abandonment and end-of-life concerns by creating space to talk, name feelings and find ways to cope with them over time.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Geraldine will listen to your needs and preferences, then suggest methods that match your goals. Together you will review what feels most helpful and adapt the plan as therapy progresses.

Practical benefits of online therapy often include fitting sessions into a busy week, shorter check-ins when needed, and the ability to meet without travel. The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm the options available before booking. Many people find that online work makes it easier to keep momentum and practise skills between sessions.