- Guilt and shame work
- Attachment issues
- CBT ideas
About Aileen
Aileen Boyle is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and depression. She also helps with relationship and parenting concerns, career questions and coping with life changes.
She often focuses on issues that come from attachment wounds and disruptive relationships. That includes concerns such as abandonment, adoption and foster care experiences, codependency, communication problems and infidelity. Guilt and shame are named areas she addresses alongside forgiveness and money or fertility worries.
In sessions she uses approaches drawn from attachment-based work, client-centred conversations and cognitive behavioural ideas. That means many sessions involve looking at patterns in relationships, noticing difficult thoughts and testing small practical changes. She also draws on emotionally-focused and existential ideas to help people find meaning and clearer emotional connection.
Practical help is central to her way of working. She listens for how past experiences shape current feelings, then helps people try different ways of responding. Sessions are a space to talk through painful memories, practise new conversations and plan small steps for everyday life.
People often come wanting to reduce overwhelming guilt or shame and to repair how they relate to others. She supports that process with structured conversation and reflective work, helping people to make decisions about next steps and to explore different possibilities for change.
How therapeutic approaches guide online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns in feeling and relating. Online conversations using this approach typically focus on recognising those patterns and practising different ways of connecting in everyday life. Client-Centred Therapy centres on the client's own experience and choices, using reflective listening and open questions to help clarify what matters and what to try next. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test small behavioural experiments to change how they feel and act.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what has helped or not helped before. That helps shape whether sessions emphasise exploring attachment history, steady reflective listening, or practical CBT tasks, and the plan can be adjusted over time.
Confirm the session formats before booking as they are not specified in the profile. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - for example by avoiding travel, fitting a shorter check-in into a work break or choosing a phone call when less bandwidth is available. Registered or accredited professionals and therapists use online meetings to continue therapeutic work and to help people apply new ways of relating inside their everyday routines.
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Experience
5+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, relationship and parenting concerns, career matters and coping with life changes, including guilt and shame.
How does she approach guilt and shame?
She uses attachment-based ideas, client-centred conversation and cognitive behavioural techniques to look at how past relationships and current thoughts keep guilt and shame active.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has five years of professional experience working with people on trauma, addiction, anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a BACP counsellor working in the United Kingdom.
Can I work with her if I live outside the UK?
She accepts international clients and offers sessions for English speakers.
What session formats are offered?
Please confirm current session options before booking as formats are not specified in the profile.
How are costs handled?
Costs vary with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin a first session?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire and then schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.