Miriam Berry, BACP

Miriam Berry is a qualified, insured psychotherapist and counsellor who works with people experiencing stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, grief, eating concerns, and challenges around self-esteem and life changes. She supports clients facing intimacy-related issues, coping with loss, and a variety of other concerns including attachment and abandonment issues, chronic illness and disability, and questions around gender and sexuality.

Miriam has particular interests in LGBTQ matters, neurodiversity, bereavement, and parent-adult child relationships. In an initial session she discusses a person’s needs and whether her approach is a good fit, ensuring that the focus of therapy responds directly to the concerns brought to the room.

She is psychodynamically trained, which means the work often explores how current behaviours and ways of relating stem from early life experiences. By tracing recurring patterns in relationships and self-perception that began in childhood, Miriam helps clients become more aware of why they act as they do and to make conscious choices about whether to continue those patterns or try different ways of living.

Miriam is a registered member of the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and brings four years of clinical experience to her practice.

Psychodynamic Insight and Flexible Online Care

Miriam uses psychodynamic therapy to explore the links between a person’s past experiences and present patterns of thinking, feeling, and relating. This approach looks at how early relationships and formative events shape repeating patterns, and it helps people gain insight into long-standing issues such as attachment difficulties, relationship problems, low self-esteem, grief, and mood concerns.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work itself. Miriam approaches this collaboratively - she and the client will consider the client’s needs, goals, and preferences together and decide how psychodynamic work might be adapted or combined with other ways of working to best support progress.

Online therapy with Miriam is available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering practical flexibility for different schedules and communication styles. These options make it easier for people to access regular sessions from home, to maintain continuity of care during life changes, and to choose the format that feels most comfortable for them when working with a registered professional.