Sarah Tolley, NCPS

NCPS, 10 years' experience. Sarah Tolley is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with ten years of practice. She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, low self-esteem and depression, and uses approaches such as attachment-based work, client-centred methods, cognitive behavioural techniques, dialectical behaviour strategies and EMDR where appropriate.

Sarah has worked across private practice and educational settings. She has supported pupils with low mood and suicidal thoughts and has worked with adults from diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. Her work has included supporting people in the LGBTQ+ community and people exploring gender identity.

In sessions she focuses on practical skills and clearer thinking. That can mean learning ways to manage overwhelming feelings, building self-esteem, or working on relationship communication. She describes her style as solution-focused and approachable, aiming to help people notice concrete changes in day-to-day life.

Her background includes work with adolescents and adults, and experience addressing abandonment, attachment issues, adoption and foster care matters, and substance use concerns. She also lists experience with body image, codependency, and relationship separation.

Sarah aims to help people develop calmer thinking and stronger self-belief. She uses structured techniques when useful, and relational listening to make sense of past and present patterns. People who prefer a practical, skills-based approach alongside space to reflect may find her way of working clear and direct.

How her approaches translate to online counselling