May Pope

May Pope is a counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression and the fallout from trauma and abuse. She works with concerns around family problems, ADHD and issues that often affect women. May holds NCPS and brings three years of professional experience to her practice.

May aims to create a calm, steady space where people can talk through what feels overwhelming. She offers person-centred counselling and draws on other evidence-based techniques when they suit a person’s needs. Sessions are offered weekly or fortnightly, and some people move to monthly check-ins later on.

In sessions May focuses on practical steps people can use between meetings. She helps with communication problems, caregiver stress, attachment-related worries, and strong feelings of guilt or shame. Conversations often include looking at patterns in relationships and testing small changes in how someone responds to others.

May also supports sexual identity questions and women's issues as part of broader emotional work. She has worked with people who have faced addiction, psychosis and mood conditions, and she is completing postgraduate study looking at autism in women and family estrangement.

Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person. May encourages people to set clear goals and to try strategies in everyday life, then bring back what worked and what did not. This helps people build more reliable ways of coping and relating over time.

Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online

May uses person-centred counselling as her core approach, which means the focus is on the client's experience and pacing the work to their needs. In practice this looks like reflective listening, open questions, and supporting people to find their own solutions. Cognitive behavioural techniques are also used when helpful to break down worries into manageable steps and to build practical coping tools.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and will try different ways of working to see what fits best. This is a collaborative process and may change as progress is made.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats available before booking since those details are not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit counselling into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when life gets hectic. It can also let people use lower-bandwidth options when that is more practical. Registered or accredited professionals and therapists often find online sessions help keep continuity of care and allow people to sustain therapeutic routines alongside day-to-day responsibilities.