Counsellor profile
Grant Roberts, BACP
Psychotherapist and counsellor - relationships and parenting
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- Stress and anxiety
- Attachment issues
- CBT and ACT ideas
About Grant
Grant Roberts is a psychotherapist and counsellor registered with the BACP and practising in the United Kingdom. He has 25 years' experience helping people with stress, anxiety, depression, eating difficulties, grief, self-esteem and motivation. He lists family and parenting among his concerns and often works with issues around intimacy, relationships and coping with life changes.
He works from a person-centred foundation and uses an integrative style. Sessions typically involve talking through current problems, identifying patterns that cause distress, and trying simple strategies to manage symptoms day to day. Grant mixes ideas from cognitive behavioural approaches with attachment-focused thinking to help people understand how past relationships affect present difficulties.
Reflections and practical tools form a steady part of his work. He may teach breathing and grounding techniques, challenge unhelpful thoughts, and support clearer communication. The focus is on what helps a client feel and function better between sessions as well as during them.
Grant has worked across a wide range of concerns over 25 years, including trauma and abuse, addictions, ADHD, and issues linked to adoption and attachment. He also notes experience with body image, chronic illness, carer stress and kink-friendly practice. These areas feature in his day-to-day practice rather than in diagnostic or specialist claims.
To begin, readers are invited to use the site's matching tool to book an initial appointment. The first meeting offers a chance to describe current struggles and agree practical next steps.
How sessions work
How his approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing values-based actions. It helps when worry, avoidance or low mood get in the way of everyday life. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how earlier relationships shape present reactions and helps people change patterns of relating that cause stress.Grant combines a person-centred stance with CBT and ACT ideas. That means conversations are collaborative: the therapist and client decide together which methods to try. Over time they review what helps and adjust the plan to better match the client’s goals and preferences.
If you are thinking about online appointments, check the listed session options before booking because formats were not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around parenting, work and daily life. It can also allow shorter check-ins by phone or video, reduce travel time, and make follow-up conversations simpler to schedule. Registered or accredited professionals tend to adapt exercises, breathing practices and behavioural tasks so they work in a remote session and fit into everyday routines.
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Experience
25+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Questions
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What kinds of home and family concerns does he help with?
He lists relationship strain, parenting stress, intimacy issues, family conflict and bereavement among his focus areas.
How would he approach a problem like anxiety or low mood?
He uses a person-centred, integrative style drawing on cognitive behavioural techniques and acceptance-based ideas to teach coping strategies and change unhelpful thought patterns.
How much clinical experience does he have?
He has 25 years of experience working with a wide range of concerns including trauma, addictions and eating difficulties.
What credential does he hold and where is he based?
He is registered with the BACP and works in the United Kingdom.
Can I see him if I live outside the UK?
Sessions are offered in English and he does not accept international clients at present.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not specify session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How are fees arranged?
Costs vary by location and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I get started with him?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.