Anna Critsinelis

Anna Critsinelis is a counsellor with ten years of practice supporting people through stress, anxiety, self-esteem struggles and major life changes. She works with individuals facing bipolar mood challenges, ADHD, and the ripple effects of separation and divorce. Anna aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and straightforward.

Her sessions focus on practical conversation and clear goals. She creates space for people to talk through what matters, and to try new ways of coping that fit everyday life. The work is collaborative - clients set priorities and Anna helps them find steps that make sense.

Anna draws on a range of talking approaches. She uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions, and Solution-Focused Therapy to identify small, useful changes. She also uses Client-Centred Therapy, which keeps the session focused on the person and their experience.

Clients come to her with issues such as attachment and abandonment worries, communication problems, control and dependency patterns, feelings of emptiness, and guilt or shame. She also supports people navigating gender dysphoria, autism spectrum-related concerns, and aspects of alternative sexual culture including BDSM and kink.

Sessions are conducted in English and Portuguese and Anna works with people in the United Kingdom and internationally. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, which appears as BACP on her profile.

Her approach is straightforward and down-to-earth. She helps people build resilience and regain a sense of direction through steady, practical work together.

How Anna’s approaches translate to online therapy

Anna uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Client-Centred Therapy in a way that fits remote work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing small behavioural changes, which can be practised between sessions and reviewed together. Client-Centred Therapy emphasises a warm, non-judgemental conversation where the person sets the pace and agenda, useful when people need space to process feelings.

Finding the right combination of approaches is part of the process. Anna will work collaboratively to choose methods that match the client's goals and current needs, and she adapts her style as the work progresses.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions around work, study or family commitments, reduce travel time, and allow more frequent short check-ins when helpful. It also offers flexibility for people based in different countries who want to continue seeing the same therapist.