Angharad Thomas

Flexible appointment times, including evenings and weekends.

Hi, I'm Angharad, a UKCP Accredited Psychotherapist and BACP Senior Accredited Counsellor. With many years of experience, I provide professional, long- and short-term psychotherapy and counselling to adults and young people across North Wales, as well as online throughout the UK.

Locations

My offices are conveniently located in Conwy, North Wales, and in Betws yn Rhos, situated between Colwyn Bay and Abergele. Both locations provide peaceful, private, and discreet settings that are ideal for therapy, with free off-road parking available for your convenience.

How can therapy help?

Whatever your reason for getting in touch, I offer a reliable, supportive, and highly confidential space where you can speak freely about your concerns. Whilst therapy can be challenging at times, it can also be immensely rewarding. It offers the opportunity to understand the underlying causes of your difficulties, find relief from what's troubling you, explore new possibilities, and ultimately move forward with greater clarity and confidence. The goals of therapy are many, and among the most important are enhanced self-understanding, self-acceptance, healthier relationships, and a deeper sense of joy and contentment in life.

How to get started

Taking the first step in seeking help can be difficult and anxiety-provoking, especially if you’ve never had psychotherapy or counselling before. Having had many years of therapy myself, I understand this and have experienced firsthand the benefits it can bring.

To help put your mind at ease, I’ve provided detailed information on my website (angharadthomas.co.uk) to give you an insight into counselling and psychotherapy, how I work, and what you can expect from therapy.

Another way to learn more about who I am and how I can help is to get in touch via the contact form, email, or text. I’m also happy to speak briefly on the phone; if I’m unable to answer your call immediately, please leave a message, and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

I am an integrative psychotherapist, meaning I draw from a variety of models, theories and practices to match the uniqueness of your situation. I work primarily from a foundation of Humanistic principles, guided by Rogerian person-centred theory, and incorporate into this psychoanalytic thinking, attachment theory, existential philosophy, phenomenology and transactional analysis. I also draw on a wide body of knowledge from psychology, philosophy, feminism, spirituality, sociology, neuroscience and trauma and health research.

Every therapy session is tailored to your individual needs and, in each session, you’ll have the opportunity to explore the issues that matter most to you, all within a safe and supportive relationship. During sessions, I will help you talk about your feelings, behaviours, thoughts, memories and experiences. Whilst I won’t give advice, tell you what to do, or make a diagnosis, I will provide a space for you to talk, listen carefully to what you share, and try to understand your experience as deeply as I can. I may ask questions to help you consider things from a different angle or see things from a new perspective. We might also examine your relationship with yourself, your relationships with others—both past and present—and the relationship we develop in therapy. This can help you to see your difficulties in a new light and put into practice healthier ways of being.

I offer open-ended, exploratory therapy where you will gradually come to understand and accept yourself more fully leading to positive changes in your capacity to live. Alternatively for those looking for more focused work, we can focus carefully on a particular problem, assisting you to better understand the issue and use your existing strengths and resources to move forwards. Ultimately, the number of sessions you have is entirely up to you, and you may already have ideas about what you’ll find most helpful - we can discuss this when we meet.

Meeting with a therapist for the first time can be a rather daunting experience. It’s normal to feel uncertain or even nervous about starting therapy, and I will do everything I can to make our first encounter as easy and relaxed as possible. Although many people find that the first step is the hardest, once you begin, you’ll discover the benefits of having a dedicated space to explore your thoughts and feelings without judgement.

Once you decide to get in touch, we can arrange a time to meet, and I will send you a psychotherapy and counselling contract. This contract doesn’t tie you into anything but rather explains my policies around confidentiality, payment, cancellations, and more, ensuring that if we decide to work together, we do so within safe and clear boundaries. I’ll also send you directions to my office, which offers a quiet and discreet place to meet.

When we meet for our first session, I will invite you to begin discussing what brings you to therapy and explore your expectations. I may ask some questions to learn more about you and your situation. We can also talk through any concerns or anxieties you have about the therapeutic process, and there will be an opportunity for you to ask questions if you are unsure about anything.

At the end of our first session, if we both feel that we can work together, we’ll discuss our next steps. If you need a little more time to decide, that’s perfectly fine too.

Sometimes therapy with me may not be the right way forward, and if that’s the case, I can guide you toward other sources of support.

There is no obligation to continue after this first session, and you are always free to end therapy at any point.

Flexible appointment times, including evenings and weekends.

Hi, I'm Angharad, a UKCP Accredited Psychotherapist and BACP Senior Accredited Counsellor. With many years of experience, I provide professional, long- and short-term psychotherapy and counselling to adults and young people across North Wales, as well as online throughout the UK.

Locations

My offices are conveniently located in Conwy, North Wales, and in Betws yn Rhos, situated between Colwyn Bay and Abergele. Both locations provide peaceful, private, and discreet settings that are ideal for therapy, with free off-road parking available for your convenience.

How can therapy help?

Whatever your reason for getting in touch, I offer a reliable, supportive, and highly confidential space where you can speak freely about your concerns.  Whilst therapy can be challenging at times, it can also be immensely rewarding. It offers the opportunity to understand the underlying causes of your difficulties, find relief from what's troubling you, explore new possibilities, and ultimately move forward with greater clarity and confidence.  The goals of therapy are many, and among the most important are enhanced self-understanding, self-acceptance, healthier relationships, and a deeper sense of joy and contentment in life.

How to get started

Taking the first step in seeking help can be difficult and anxiety-provoking, especially if you’ve never had psychotherapy or counselling before. Having had many years of therapy myself, I understand this and have experienced firsthand the benefits it can bring.

To help put your mind at ease, I’ve provided detailed information on my website (angharadthomas.co.uk) to give you an insight into counselling and psychotherapy, how I work, and what you can expect from therapy. 

Another way to learn more about who I am and how I can help is to get in touch via the contact form, email, or text. I’m also happy to speak briefly on the phone; if I’m unable to answer your call immediately, please leave a message, and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

I am an integrative psychotherapist, meaning I draw from a variety of models, theories and practices to match the uniqueness of your situation.  I work primarily from a foundation of Humanistic principles, guided by Rogerian person-centred theory, and incorporate into this psychoanalytic thinking, attachment theory, existential philosophy, phenomenology and transactional analysis. I also draw on a wide body of knowledge from psychology, philosophy, feminism, spirituality, sociology, neuroscience and trauma and health research.

Every therapy session is tailored to your individual needs and, in each session, you’ll have the opportunity to explore the issues that matter most to you, all within a safe and supportive relationship. During sessions, I will help you talk about your feelings, behaviours, thoughts, memories and experiences.  Whilst I won’t give advice, tell you what to do, or make a diagnosis, I will provide a space for you to talk, listen carefully to what you share, and try to understand your experience as deeply as I can. I may ask questions to help you consider things from a different angle or see things from a new perspective. We might also examine your relationship with yourself, your relationships with others—both past and present—and the relationship we develop in therapy. This can help you to see your difficulties in a new light and put into practice healthier ways of being.

I offer open-ended, exploratory therapy where you will gradually come to understand and accept yourself more fully leading to positive changes in your capacity to live. Alternatively for those looking for more focused work, we can focus carefully on a particular problem, assisting you to better understand the issue and use your existing strengths and resources to move forwards. Ultimately, the number of sessions you have is entirely up to you, and you may already have ideas about what you’ll find most helpful - we can discuss this when we meet.

Meeting with a therapist for the first time can be a rather daunting experience. It’s normal to feel uncertain or even nervous about starting therapy, and I will do everything I can to make our first encounter as easy and relaxed as possible. Although many people find that the first step is the hardest, once you begin, you’ll discover the benefits of having a dedicated space to explore your thoughts and feelings without judgement.

Once you decide to get in touch, we can arrange a time to meet, and I will send you a psychotherapy and counselling contract. This contract doesn’t tie you into anything but rather explains my policies around confidentiality, payment, cancellations, and more, ensuring that if we decide to work together, we do so within safe and clear boundaries. I’ll also send you directions to my office, which offers a quiet and discreet place to meet.

When we meet for our first session, I will invite you to begin discussing what brings you to therapy and explore your expectations. I may ask some questions to learn more about you and your situation. We can also talk through any concerns or anxieties you have about the therapeutic process, and there will be an opportunity for you to ask questions if you are unsure about anything.

At the end of our first session, if we both feel that we can work together, we’ll discuss our next steps. If you need a little more time to decide, that’s perfectly fine too. 

Sometimes therapy with me may not be the right way forward, and if that’s the case, I can guide you toward other sources of support.

There is no obligation to continue after this first session, and you are always free to end therapy at any point.