Belly Harding, BACP
7 years in practice
Belly Harding is a counsellor who works from an existential perspective.
License and registration
- BACP
- 390762 · expires February 2026
- Years in practice
- 7
- Languages
- English, French
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Belly
Belly Harding is a counsellor who works from an existential perspective. She draws on questions about meaning, choice and responsibility to help people make sense of painful life experiences and unclear next steps. Belly studied psychology and holds a Master of Science in Psychology from Manchester Metropolitan University.
She is a doctorate candidate in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy at Middlesex University and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP.
Background and approach
Her approach is integrative. She uses Existential Therapy alongside cognitive behavioural ideas and psychodynamic thinking to match the work to each person. Sessions tend to focus on what matters to the client now, practical steps to manage distress, and understanding patterns that repeat across relationships.
She has seven years of clinical experience and has supported people dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship difficulties, and separation. She also offers Christian counselling and can work in French as well as English. In sessions Belly encourages open, non-judgemental discussion.
She aims to help people increase self-awareness, manage suffering, and build clearer goals. The tone is direct but warm, with an emphasis on practical change and deeper personal meaning.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Belly lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Belly names
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Existential Therapy looks at questions of meaning, choice and responsibility to help people understand their situation and decide on next steps; it can be helpful for grief, life transitions and crises of purpose. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current connections and helps people change how they relate to others. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to manage symptoms like anxiety and depression and to change unhelpful thinking or behaviour.Finding the right approach is part of the process. She works collaboratively with each person to decide which ideas fit best for current goals and preferences. That may mean blending existential reflection with CBT skills or exploring deeper relationship patterns with attachment-focused work over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls make it possible to see visual cues and hold longer sessions, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins or quick reflections, and text messaging supports ongoing tracking between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving and other commitments while maintaining continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does this counsellor help with?
She helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, addictions, grief, and a wide range of other issues listed in her profile.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is integrative and existential in emphasis, combining reflection on meaning with practical techniques from cognitive behavioural and psychodynamic approaches.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has seven years of experience working with diverse issues including domestic violence, trauma, anxiety, depression and relationship breakdown.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is registered with the BACP and is based in the United Kingdom while training at Middlesex University for a doctorate in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy.
Can sessions be offered in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English and French, and she can work with international clients as noted in her profile.
Which session formats are available online?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different preferences and schedules.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
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