Counsellor profile
Simone Riviere, BACP
BACP counsellor - family and parenting focus
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- Client-centred work
- Mindfulness practice
- Motivational interviewing
About Simone
Simone Riviere is a BACP counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with ten years' experience. She works with common difficulties such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns, and has particular experience supporting people with parenting and family-related issues. Simone also lists work around trauma and abuse, addictions, intimacy-related concerns, and neurodiversity.
She practices in an integrative way that places the relationship between counsellor and client at the centre. Sessions focus on listening, making sense of difficult feelings, and helping people untangle repetitive thoughts and patterns. Simone offers both short-term work and open-ended therapy depending on what a person needs.
Her approach draws from client-centred and psychodynamic ideas, along with mindfulness and Jungian perspectives. That means she pays attention to how past relationships and inner patterns affect current life, and uses reflective conversation to notice unhelpful cycles. Mindfulness elements are used to help people manage overwhelming emotion in the moment.
She also uses motivational interviewing techniques to support people who want to make practical changes, for example around addictions, sleep, eating, or career steps. Sessions tend to combine talk with practical strategies to try between meetings.
Simone lists additional focuses including attachment and abandonment issues, blended family challenges, codependency, BDSM and kink-related concerns, and autism or Asperger syndrome. She welcomes people who identify as LGBT and those coping with life changes such as separation or bereavement.
Sessions are conducted in English and Simone accepts international clients. Fees vary with location and she uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.
How sessions work
How Simone’s approaches transfer to online work
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters to the person. Online sessions can replicate this through steady, attentive conversation and short reflective exercises that help people feel heard and understood.Psychodynamic ideas look at how past relationships shape present reactions. In remote sessions the counsellor can guide discussion about recurring patterns, attachment histories, and how old feelings show up now, helping people notice connections over time.
Mindfulness therapy brings gentle attention to present-moment experience. Online meetings can include short mindfulness practices and breathing exercises to manage anxiety, sleep problems or overwhelm between sessions.
Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. Simone will work with each person to identify which methods fit their goals and preferences, and she will adjust the balance of reflection, practical strategies and motivational techniques as therapy continues.
The original profile does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so people can use a break from work or home duties for an appointment.
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Experience
10+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of family concerns does she address?
She helps people with family and parenting-related issues including blended family challenges, family of origin problems, and communication difficulties.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
Her work is integrative with a client-centred focus, combining psychodynamic reflection, mindfulness and motivational interviewing to suit the person.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has ten years' experience working as a counsellor and psychotherapist in the United Kingdom.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is listed with the BACP and practises in the United Kingdom.
Are sessions available in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she does accept international clients.
What session formats does she offer?
The original biography does not specify session formats; please confirm current online and in-person options before booking.
How are fees handled?
Fees vary with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
What do I need to do to start?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
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