Stella Forster

My working hours from 15 September 2025 for in person sessions are as follows:

Monday: 9.00am to 1.00pm

Wednesday:  2.00pm to 6.00pm

Friday: 9.00am to 6.00pm

I also have availability for online appointments via Zoom or Microsoft Teams on different days and times across the week.

Please contact me (preferably by email in the first instance) for further details. I offer a complimentary introductory 30 minute telephone session with no obligation to make an appointment. 

I am a qualified integrative counsellor and psychotherapist with several years experience supporting clients to explore what they are struggling with. We are all capable of navigating our way through the difficult times in our lives with the right support. 

Our relationships and experiences affect how we view ourselves, others, our environment and choices. Effective therapeutic relationships that lead to insightful, long-lasting change are built on trust, authentic curiosity and open communication. 

I provide clients with a safe and confidential space to look at their thoughts, feelings, relational patterns and experiences. Together we explore issues from the past that may be affecting their present.

Many clients come to therapy questioning why what has worked for them in the past no longer works for them now. Together we discover why, enabling clients to gain new understandings and make meaningful long-term change.

I believe that we all hold the solutions within ourselves and work collaboratively with clients to find them.

I believe the key to successful therapy is to establish a supportive and collaborative working relationship. I aim to do this by actively listening to my clients getting to know them, and  understand what brings them to therapy, helping them to discover their own answers and the best ways forward.

I combine techniques from several evidence based therapeutic approaches to tailor bespoke treatment plans that address the unique lived experiences of individual clients. I use Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Transactional Analysis, Cognitive Behavioural, Narrative and Somatic therapies with a focus on assisting clients to reach their goals and achieve meaningful, long-lasting change.

I am a trauma informed therapist specialising in attachment related issues, bereavement and non-bereavement loss including but not limited to: bereavement by suicide, sudden deaths, prolonged grief, relationship difficulties and breakdown, divorce, separation, parenting challenges, change in self-perceptions, loss of purpose and hope. Many clients struggle through life transitions, unexpected challenges and uncertainty leading to anxiety, depression, confusion, loss of purpose, self-harm and maladaptive coping strategies. Together we  work to find new understandings and lasting change. 

Our first session would be about exploring the challenges which may have contributed to you seeking therapy at this time. We will talk about the ways in which I may be able to help and work with you. An important part of the first session is also to decide if we both feel we can work together. If we agree to moving forward together we will make a plan of what may be best suited for you and this will depend on the nature of what you may be seeking therapy for. I do not ask clients to commit to a certain number of sessions but this is something we would regularly talk about and review in an open and honest way.