Yasmin Bouvier, NCPS

Yasmin Bouvier is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and life changes. She works with adults on relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, and challenges linked to health such as chronic pain, illness and cancer. Yasmin also helps with parenting strain, career worries, eating and body image issues, and matters related to ADHD and bipolar conditions.

Yasmin uses a warm, person-centred way of working that aims to put the individual’s experience first. Sessions are paced to suit each person and judgment is avoided. Conversations focus on what matters now and on practical steps the client can try between meetings.

Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings and behaviour. Cognitive behavioural tools are used when helpful to spot patterns and try small experiments. Emotionally-Focused Therapy elements support work on closeness, emotion and communication in relationships.

She sometimes offers guided imagery or simple creative exercises to help when feelings become stuck, and these are optional. Yasmin holds NCPS as a credential and has around four years of practice experience.

People considering therapy are invited to reflect on their goals and what they need from a counsellor. The focus in sessions is on clear, practical steps and making sense of difficult experiences over time.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

The practice combines attachment-based ideas with client-centred care. Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships influence feelings and behaviour, which can help when working on intimacy, trust or patterns in relationships. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening without judgement and following the person’s pace, which supports anyone who needs a calm, steady space to make sense of difficult feelings.

Cognitive behavioural techniques are also used to identify unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns and to try small experiments between sessions. These techniques can help with anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes by giving clear, practical steps to practise outside sessions. Together these approaches aim to blend emotional understanding with concrete actions.

Finding the right approach is treated as a joint effort. The therapist will work with each person to test what helps most and adjust methods to match goals and preferences. That conversation usually begins in the first few sessions and continues as needs change.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm the current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy around daily life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It can also allow people to remain in a familiar setting while focusing on change and problem solving with a registered or accredited professional.