Madeleine Heffernan, BACP
8 years in practice
Madeleine Heffernan helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression and trauma.
License and registration
- BACP
- 383790 · expires April 2026
- Years in practice
- 8
- 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 Madeleine
Madeleine Heffernan helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression and trauma. She supports those facing relationship and family tensions, grief, addictions and issues around intimacy. Madeleine also offers help for parenting strain, career worries, anger, ADHD and coping with life changes.
Her work draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioural techniques. Sessions are practical and conversational, with space to name feelings and try new ways of relating to yourself and others.
Background and approach
Madeleine aims to build a clearer sense of what matters to each person. Madeleine holds BACP accreditation, which is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She uses psychodynamic ideas to look at how past experiences shape current patterns.
She also brings in mindfulness and compassion-focused practices to support self‑soothing and emotional regulation. Therapy may include listening, exploring patterns, gentle challenges and tasks to try between sessions if desired. Some people work on developing kinder inner dialogue, while others focus on changing unhelpful behaviours.
Sessions can be tailored to how someone prefers to work and what they want to achieve. Madeleine is based in the United Kingdom and has eight years' experience. She offers a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging.
Messages are checked daily during set hours and live sessions are held on weekdays.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Madeleine lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Madeleine names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- 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 Madeleine's approaches translate to online therapy
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and name emotions and then change unhelpful patterns of interaction or self‑reaction. It is useful when feelings are intense or when someone wants to understand why they repeat the same relational habits.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current ways of relating. It helps people who struggle with trust, closeness or fear of abandonment to recognise patterns and try new ways of connecting with others and themselves.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Madeleine will discuss your goals and preferences and together decide which methods suit you best. This is a collaborative process and approaches can be blended and adjusted over time.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or days when typing feels easier. These options give flexibility for different needs and schedules.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Madeleine help with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship or family tensions. Other focus areas include grief, addictions, intimacy issues, ADHD and career or parenting strain.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is warm and conversational with practical steps offered when useful. Sessions combine listening, reflection and tasks to try between appointments if wanted.
How much experience does she have?
Madeleine has eight years of clinical experience working with a broad range of emotional and interpersonal difficulties.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is listed with BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and practises from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging, with live sessions on certain weekdays.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
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