Tracey Simeonova, BACP

Tracey Simeonova is a counsellor who focuses on thoughts and everyday habits that get in the way of feeling well. She uses a person-centred approach online, aiming to offer compassion, empathy and acceptance as a place to start. Tracey works with adults and teenagers and brings 15 years of experience across charities, the NHS, international schools in Asia and the Middle East, and private practice.

She draws on several approaches to help people make sense of painful patterns. That includes cognitive behavioural ideas to spot and change unhelpful thinking, and acceptance and commitment ideas to notice values and take small steps that matter. Attachment-based work is used when relationships and early connections shape present struggles.

Tracey helps people who are coping with relationship and family problems, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, anxiety, stress, addiction, grief and difficulties with intimacy or eating. She also supports those facing anger, depression, parenting strain, compassion fatigue and life transitions. Additional focuses include abandonment, codependency, body image and communication problems.

She has spent years teaching trainee counsellors on an integrative counselling degree programme and bringing practical, down-to-earth strategies into sessions. Sessions aim to be a space where someone can talk honestly about what they feel and try new ways of responding to thoughts and habits.

If you want to start, Tracey asks people to use the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire. Appointments are then scheduled according to therapist availability.

Therapeutic approaches for online sessions

Tracey combines person-centred work with methods drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts, connect with their values and try small, meaningful actions despite difficult feelings. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people change unhelpful ways of relating to themselves and others.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Tracey will talk with you about your goals, what has or has not worked before, and try different ways of working until something feels helpful. She aims to adapt methods to your needs rather than fitting you to a single model.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, whether that means avoiding travel, fitting a session into a work break, or having shorter check-ins when needed. The biography specifies online work, but it does not list exact session formats here, so please confirm current options before booking. Registered and accredited professionals often offer a range of appointment lengths and timings to help therapy slot into everyday routines.