Anne Berbece, PACFA

Anne Berbece is a PACFA-credentialed counsellor who focuses on practical, down-to-earth care. She keeps sessions grounded and clear. Anne aims to build trust and respect so people feel safe to talk about difficult things.

She works with stress, anxiety, mood disorders such as depression and bipolar, and addiction concerns. She also helps with trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD and compassion fatigue. Additional areas include attachment and abandonment issues, body image, impulse control, and life changes such as separation or career shifts.

Anne draws on several therapy approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy and client-centred work. She uses these approaches to help people notice what matters to them, change unhelpful patterns, and build more helpful ways of coping.

Anne trained at master’s level and has eight years of professional experience in mental health work. Her background includes trauma-informed practice and holistic assessment that looks at psychological, biological and social factors.

She describes herself as empathic, patient and conscientious, and aims to help people find realistic ways to improve daily life. To start, she asks people to say what they want to work on and then tailors the sessions to those goals.

Approach-led online counselling you can shape

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns to reduce anxiety, low mood and unwanted habits. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current connections and helps build healthier ways of relating.

Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences and then discuss which methods fit best. This happens together over the first few sessions so treatment can be shaped to what you want to achieve.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit counselling into a busy life by reducing travel time and allowing shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people turn up from different locations and keep continuity of care during life changes, while the therapist and client decide together how to structure sessions for the best outcomes.