Sarah Willcocks , BACP

Sarah Willcocks is a person-centred counsellor with 14 years of professional experience, working from the United Kingdom. She is a registered member of the BACP, the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy, and follows the BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice as well as its Guidelines for Online Counselling and Psychotherapy. Her practice focuses on bereavement, traumatic loss and PTSD, and she has extensive experience supporting people with depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder, and personality disorder diagnoses.

She has supported many clients who experienced childhood or adult trauma, including physical, emotional and sexual abuse, and she brings that experience to work with issues such as addiction, relationship and family concerns, eating and sleeping difficulties, anger, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Sarah also works with challenges related to adoption and foster care, attachment and abandonment, first responder issues, fertility and cancer, and a range of other complex life stressors.

Her therapeutic manner is warm and interactive, grounded in compassion, respect and sensitivity. She primarily uses a Person-Centred approach, alongside solution-focused and humanistic methods, allowing the client to lead and set the pace while the counsellor offers honest, non-judgmental acceptance. Sarah aims to support and empower people taking the often-difficult first steps toward a more fulfilling life.

Person-Centred and Solution-Focused Online Support

Sarah Willcocks draws on client-centred therapy, motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques to guide online work. Client-centred therapy prioritises the individual's experience, offering honest, non-judgmental acceptance so clients can lead the pace of sessions and explore feelings at their own speed - it is often helpful for grief, trauma and relationship concerns. Motivational interviewing focuses on strengthening a person's own motivation for change by exploring ambivalence and fostering personal goals - it can be useful for addictions, behavioural change and periods of uncertainty. Solution-focused therapy emphasises practical steps and small, achievable goals to move forward, which many people find effective when dealing with stress, coping with life changes or setting goals for recovery and wellbeing.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Sarah works collaboratively with each person to identify which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences. She combines elements from different approaches as appropriate, adjusting the focus as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can happen by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit counselling into daily life and to connect from different locations. These options allow licensed professionals to provide consistent, ongoing support while accommodating varied schedules and communication styles.