About me
I’m Annika, a therapist based in York and working online across the UK and Europe.
I would be interested to hear more about what you are going through and what you are hoping to find in a therapist. Feel free to send me a message or book an introductory call.
Finding the right therapist is important, so if I am not the right therapist for you, l hope to be able to direct you find someone who is.
I support people who have been carrying too much for too long — often quietly, often without a place to talk about what’s really going on.
I work with individuals who look capable on the outside but feel overwhelmed on the inside — people who are exhausted, anxious, or caught in patterns they haven’t been able to understand or shift alone.
Women and men struggling with work–life balance, sleeplessness, pressure, and the feeling that you “should” be coping better.
I work with complicated family relationships, it can be with mothers or fathers, even both. This means working with guilt, shame, or the sense of never being “enough”, and how all this is impacting your relationships in adult life.. When we are not feeling "good enough", it can be challenging to form other fulfilling relationships.
I work with couples who love each other but feel stuck in the same arguments. Couples who keep arguing about housework, communication, or emotional connection — wanting closeness but have lost the tools to get there.
Or couples who are separating and need support to do it with clarity and care.
Many of my clients come from multicultural backgrounds or live between cultures, navigating identity, belonging, and family expectations. I feel it is important to recognise how you have different parts in you in different languages.
How counselling can help
I have noticed that counselling offers something many of us don’t have in everyday life:
a calm, confidential space where you can slow down, speak freely, and stop carrying everything on your own. A space where you are understood.
In our sessions, you can:
• understand the patterns that keep repeating
• explore what’s underneath stress, anxiety, or conflict
• set boundaries without guilt
• reconnect with your needs, values, and sense of self
• feel supported rather than coping alone
Many clients tell me that simply having space to talk — really talk — is the first time they have felt seen or understood in a long while. From there, change becomes possible.
Who I work with
• People from multicultural or mixed-heritage backgrounds navigating identity, belonging, and family expectations
• Couples stuck in repeating patterns or navigating separation
• Women on the edge of burnout
• People living with anxiety or emotional overwhelm
• Men and women who were never taught how to talk about feelings
• Adults with painful or complicated relationships with their mothers and fathers.
How I work
Before becoming a therapist, I spent over 20 years in senior sales management. I know how hard it can be — especially for men — to ask for help or find the right words. My own experiences of burnout and anxiety shape the way I support clients today.
I know how overwhelming daily life can feel when you are at your limit, and I also know how powerful counselling can be when you finally have space to talk.
My approach is warm, practical, and grounded in real life. I listen beyond the words and help you make sense of what you are feeling and why.
When helpful, I bring creativity into the room — using objects, drawing, or movement to make things clearer and more tangible.
You do not need to arrive with the “right” words. You just need to show up. We will take it from there together.
Next steps
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or simply need space to talk, you’re welcome to get in touch.
I offer short-term or long-term counselling, and sometimes one session is enough.
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My website will have more information how I work with different issues. Look at the blogs.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am fully qualified counsellor/therapist and member of BACP (British Association for counsellors and therapist.
I offer either short term or long term counselling for individuals, couples and mother/daughter relationships.
- Face to face at York Eco Business Centre
- Zoom /online therapy
- Telephone
- Walk and talk therapy (Beverley, Pocklington, Market Weighton areas)
I have worked with variety of clients with variety of issues. I am integrative therapist with person centred approach as my core approach. This means that I work whatever works best for you for the issues you are bringing to sessions. It can be creative work, CBT, psychodynamic, self compassion, or mindfulness.
Prior to starting my own private practice, I have counselled adults at GP practice (NHS) and for a disability and bereavement charities and Frontline 19.
As part of my training and continuous professional development (CPD), I have completed the following additional courses and have special interest in anxiety, stress/burnout and relationship issues:
- Online and telephone counselling training
- Safeguarding children and adults
- Safeguarding and managing risk through digital media
- Creative arts level 1
- Creative techniques in counselling and therapy
- Creativity as a healing tool
- Training for bereavement counselling
- Suicide prevention
- Neuroscience workshops
- Trauma workshops
- Anxiety workshops
- Walk and talk therapy
- Research study on working remotely and its effect on mental health
Before qualifying as a counsellor, I worked over 20years in sales management. I am passionate about mental health at workplaces. Due to my own work experiences, I have a very good understanding in dealing with work-related stress and any other work- related issues.
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Multicultural issues including integrating into new cultures, feelings of rootlessness and culture shock
Workplace issues including stress, bullying, interpersonal issues, culture related issues
Therapies offered
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Fees
£50.00 - £70.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
15-20min free initial session (telephone )
Couples sessions GBP 70/60min session
Individual sessions GBP 50 /50min session
Walk and talk (Beverley, Pocklington, Market Weighton) GBP 50/60min session.
When I work
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Offering both daytime and evening appointments
Face to face, online, telephone counselling.
Walk & Talk therapy
Further information
Currently offering face to face, online (Zoom) and telephone counselling sessions.
Walk and talk sessions - please contact for further information
Both daytime and evening sessions available.
