Anna McGuire
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About me
Hello, I'm Anna, a registered counsellor and member of the BACP. My goal is to help clients develop their own inner therapist so they can recognise triggers, find emotional balance, foster self-love, and prioritise healthy relationships.
To support long-term change, I provide a psychological follow-up email after each session, summarising key insights and strategies. This helps to internalise a strong, healthy mindset and offers continued support between and beyond sessions.
I specialise in gently unpacking trauma, reducing anxiety, and building emotional resilience and communication skills. I work with issues including relationship difficulties, bereavement, depression, childhood trauma, emotion regulation, low self-esteem, social anxiety, self-harm, family dynamics, perinatal trauma, postnatal depression, baby loss, and historical sexual assault.
Sessions move at your pace. My role is to sense when you need space to be heard, when you’re ready to explore deeper wounds, and when gentle challenge will help you grow to help clients' get the most out of therapy.
I offer online sessions via Zoom nationwide and face-to-face sessions in a private and peaceful room in Chard, South Somerset with free parking.
You don’t have to face things alone. I encourage you to reach out, I’m here when you’re ready.
Warmly, Anna
Training, qualifications & experience
I am registered member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) and have completed an accredited course to become an Integrative Counsellor.
My framework is a blend of humanistic and psychodynamic counselling using creative interventions.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
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Fees
£65.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
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Additional information
My fees are £65 per session. I offer a discount if a member of the family is on parental leave, you are in a single parent household or if you are on low income. Please get in touch if you have any questions on this.
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I work Monday to Friday, 9.30am - 9pm
