Heather Oddy, NCPS
5 years in practice
Heather Oddy uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside other approaches to help people manage strong emotions and difficult relationships.
License and registration
- NCPS
- NCS20-01032 · expires June 2026
- Years in practice
- 5
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Heather
Heather Oddy uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside other approaches to help people manage strong emotions and difficult relationships. She works in a straightforward, person-centred way to make talking about painful experiences easier. Heather's style is warm and practical and aims to help people feel steadier day to day.
She has five years' experience working with anxiety, depression, trauma and stress. She also supports people facing grief, low self-esteem, anger and sleep or eating difficulties.
Background and approach
Heather has worked with clients who are coping with caregiving strain, chronic illness and issues around attachment and abandonment. Her training background includes a range of therapeutic models such as cognitive behavioural techniques, acceptance and commitment approaches, and attachment-based ideas. Heather explains what each approach offers and adapts the way she works to fit each person's needs.
She also continues professional development and receives regular clinical supervision through NCPS. In sessions Heather focuses on clear, practical steps and on how feelings show up in relationships and daily life. She combines reflective listening with exercises you can try between meetings.
Over time this helps people notice patterns and make small, sustainable changes. People meet Heather when they want support through major life changes, parenting stresses, career strain or compassion fatigue. She invites honest conversation and works at a steady pace so people can build confidence and cope better with emotional challenges.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Heather lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Heather names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How Heather’s approaches translate to online therapy
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at how emotions shape your closest relationships and how patterns of interaction can be changed. Online EFT sessions focus on identifying key emotions, naming them and practising new ways of responding to others and yourself.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps you notice thoughts without getting stuck and identify values to act on. In remote sessions this often includes mindfulness exercises and simple behavioural experiments to try between meetings.
Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early bonds affect current relationships and feelings of safety. Working online, the therapist and client map these patterns together and use those insights to practice different ways of connecting and regulating emotion.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Heather will talk through what each method offers and help you decide based on your needs, goals and what feels most comfortable. That choice is collaborative and can be reviewed as therapy progresses.
Online sessions via video, phone, live chat or text give practical flexibility. Video calls suit deeper conversations, phone sessions can fit into a lunch break, live chat works for shorter check-ins and messaging lets you reflect between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving and travel.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does Heather help with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and grief as well as low self-esteem, sleeping and eating concerns and relationship or intimacy-related issues.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style combines Emotionally-Focused Therapy with person-centred and cognitive behavioural ideas. Sessions are practical, focused on feelings and on small steps to change unhelpful patterns.
What experience does she bring to sessions?
She has five years of professional experience working with a broad range of emotional and mental health concerns and continues clinical development while receiving regular supervision through NCPS.
Where is she based and how is she registered?
She practises from the United Kingdom and holds NCPS as a listed credential.
Can I work with her if I live outside the UK?
Sessions are conducted in English and she is not taking international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Heather offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to provide flexible ways to meet and check in.
How do fees and payments work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
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