Ana (Anabel) Olmedo Gonzalez, NCPS

Ana (Anabel) Olmedo Gonzalez offers calm, steady support for people facing loss, trauma, stress and life change. She is a counsellor with seven years' experience and works in English and Spanish. Her style is warm and person-centred, with a focus on listening and helping people find their own way forward.

Ana combines work for the NHS in Talking Therapy Services with a private practice in Exeter and online. She holds NCPS accreditation from the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society and has completed Practitioner Licence training in Person-Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression (PCE-CfD) at Metanoia Institute. She draws on those trainings while keeping sessions practical and grounded.

In sessions she starts by hearing what matters most to the person in front of her. Conversations may explore feelings about grief, trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship problems or the strain of caregiving. She pays attention to bodily experience and to the role of attachment and life meaning when these shape distress.

Ana often uses mindfulness and gentle somatic awareness alongside person-centred conversation. She also works with emotionally-focused ideas to help people express and understand core feelings in relationships and personal life.

Her background includes supporting people after bereavement by suicide and working with complex trauma. Outside work she practises yoga, meditation and enjoys time in nature as part of her own wellbeing routine.

Approaches used in online therapy and how they help

Ana commonly works from a person-centred base that prioritises listening and the client's own pace. This approach helps people feel heard and supported while they talk through grief, depression, anxiety or caregiving strain.

She also uses Emotionally-Focused ideas to help people identify and name core feelings that affect relationships and personal life. These methods can be useful when attachment patterns or intimacy issues are causing distress.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Ana will work with each person to decide which methods feel most helpful based on their goals and preferences. That partnership guides the pace and focus of online sessions.

If you are considering online sessions, please confirm the exact formats available before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, avoid travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also suit people who prefer not to be on camera or who need lower bandwidth options, depending on what is offered.