Anita

Anita Lonsdale, BSc, Dip HE, MBACP Accredited

If you are looking for a friendly and compassionate counsellor who will make you feel at ease and go through things with you at your own pace, Anita is available to support people face-to-face in Grange-over-Sands (Cumbria, UK), or through Zoom for both long or short term counselling.

Work History

Anita is a BACP Accredited Integrative Counsellor, Clinical Supervisor and Trainer with more than 20 years’ experience supporting children, young people, adults, couples, parents and professionals across a wide range of counselling and mental health settings.

She spent 11 years working within the Youth Offending Service, supporting young offenders, young victims of crime and their parents. Her work included counselling, mediation, parenting support, and delivering parenting programmes and classes.

Anita has also worked with Relate, providing specialist counselling for couples experiencing relationship difficulties. For the past 11 years, she has run her own private counselling practice, supporting adults, couples and young people with a broad range of emotional, psychological, trauma-related and relationship difficulties.

Her professional experience includes working with agencies specialising in self-harm, eating disorders and wider mental health concerns. As a school counsellor, she supports children and young people with their emotional wellbeing, mental health, relationships, family circumstances and other challenges affecting their education and everyday lives.

Anita also provides trauma-informed counselling to police officers and police personnel affected by traumatic or distressing experiences encountered through their work. In addition, she has supported university students as a Specialist Mental Health Mentor, helping them manage mental health difficulties, develop effective coping strategies and remain engaged with their studies.

Alongside her counselling practice, Anita works as a Clinical Supervisor, providing professional guidance and support to trainee and qualified counsellors. As an experienced Trainer, she delivers specialist training to help other professionals develop their knowledge, confidence and therapeutic skills.

This extensive and varied background enables Anita to offer sensitive, compassionate and effective support to people experiencing a wide range of emotional, psychological, trauma-related and relationship difficulties.