Angela Higgins, BACP

Angela Higgins is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 25 years of experience. She began her career as a befriender supporting people affected by the Troubles in Northern Ireland and moved into counselling after seeing how people recovered strength over time.

Her early work included supporting people with stress, anxiety, panic attacks, agoraphobia and trauma from domestic and sexual abuse. Over the years she has developed a practice that includes work with addiction, anger and bereavement. She also supports people dealing with relationship and workplace problems, low self-esteem, mood difficulties and coping with life changes.

Angela trained originally in Person-Centred therapy and still uses its principles of empathy and genuineness. Much of her practical work draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, especially when clients want to change patterns of thinking and behaviour that escalate anger, anxiety or low mood.

She has ten years' experience as an addictions counsellor, including four years working in a local prison. That work involved supporting people through substance issues, re-entry challenges and related emotional problems such as trauma and anger management.

In the last decade she has studied complementary approaches such as Reiki, sound healing and reflexology and sometimes discusses these practices as part of wider wellbeing conversations. To begin, she asks people about what they want to change and how anger or stress shows up in daily life.

How her approaches work for online sessions