Siobhan Hopkins

Siobhan Hopkins offers a calm, accepting space for people facing grief, relationship strain, and major life changes. She writes plainly and listens closely, helping people untangle long-standing patterns and the day-to-day pressures that wear them down. Sessions are steady and paced to each person’s needs. Siobhan encourages practical steps alongside deeper reflection so progress feels meaningful and manageable.

Her way of working centres on understanding the stories people bring. She uses a person-centred core alongside psychodynamic ideas to look at how past relationships shape current behaviour. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques are used where helpful to change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Mindfulness and attachment-focused ideas are also woven in to improve emotional regulation and connection.

Siobhan has four years' experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She trained at Newman University in Birmingham and has lived and worked in the UK, Ireland and the USA, which informs her broad outlook.

Clients have brought issues such as postnatal depression, growing up around addiction, parental adultery, spiritual abuse, grief, caregiving stress, and burnout to sessions. She also supports people dealing with parenting strain, career transitions, addiction-related concerns, and intimacy difficulties.

Her manner is warm, gently humorous and affirming. She invites people to tell their story in their own words and works collaboratively to find clarity, resilience and new ways of relating to themselves and others. International clients are welcome.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Siobhan combines a person-centred core with psychodynamic thinking to help people understand how past relationships shape present patterns. This approach is useful for exploring long-standing family dynamics, attachment issues, and the feelings that keep repeating.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, to help identify unhelpful thoughts and change small behaviours that deepen anxiety or low mood. CBT is practical and can be helpful when someone wants clear strategies for managing symptoms.

Finding the right way of working is part of therapy. She will work together with each person to decide which ideas to draw on, based on their goals and what feels most helpful. That choice can shift as therapy progresses and new issues come up.

Please confirm which session formats are offered before booking, as the biography does not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, for example by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins when needed, or avoiding the need to be on camera if that feels difficult. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt the mix of reflective and practical work to suit an online setting and a client's everyday life.