- Client-Centred Therapy
- Career questions
- Stress and anxiety
About Penny
Penny Farrelly is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with four years of professional experience. She works with adults who are feeling stuck after changes in work, relationships or health. Common concerns she helps with include stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, career questions, depression and coping with life changes.
Penny practises client-centred therapy, which means conversations focus on the person's experience and choices. She treats people as the experts on their own lives and supports them to find clearer direction. Sessions are conversational and paced to suit the individual.
Her background includes work with a broad range of issues such as relationship and family concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, and LGBT matters. She also supports people dealing with sleep and eating difficulties, anger and compassion fatigue, and those facing chronic illness or cancer.
Penny has additional focus on adoption and foster care, ageing and geriatric issues, avoidant personality, midlife crises, life purpose and young adult issues. These areas inform how she listens and responds, rather than offering fixed solutions. She helps people talk through practical steps and near-term choices.
Sessions are practical and conversational. Expect to talk through what matters most, try out new ways of thinking about problems, and review what works between meetings. To begin, clients use the site matching process to schedule a first session and confirm the session format that suits them.
How Penny applies client-centred work to online sessions
Penny works using client-centred therapy. This approach focuses on the person's experience and priorities. The counsellor listens and reflects back what matters, helping the client clarify choices and next steps. It is useful for stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and questions about life purpose.Finding the right way of working is part of the process. Penny treats discussion of approach as collaborative and will help clients decide what fits their needs and goals. She will adjust the pace and focus based on feedback and what the person wants to achieve in sessions.
Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around daily life, save travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also suit people who prefer talking without being on camera or who need a quieter setting. Registered or accredited professionals and therapists commonly adapt techniques used face to face for remote meetings, and Penny can discuss what will work best when you arrange the first appointment.
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Experience
4+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she work with?
Penny helps people with stress, anxiety, low self esteem, career questions, depression and coping with life changes. She also supports issues such as grief, trauma, addictions and sleep or eating difficulties.
How would she approach feeling stuck or directionless?
She uses a client-centred style that focuses on the person's experience and choices. Conversations aim to clarify what matters and identify small practical steps forward.
What is her professional background?
She has four years of counselling experience working with adults on a wide range of concerns, including workplace issues and young adult challenges.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
Penny is a registered member of the BACP and practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the UK work with her?
She is not currently accepting international clients.
How are sessions paid for?
Costs vary with location; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to try sessions?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger, use the crisis numbers.