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Brett Garcia

Stress, Anxiety Relationships Family conflicts Trauma, Abuse Depression
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About me

About Me:

I am an Integrative and Psychodynamic Psychotherapist, registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), with over 20 years of experience supporting individuals, couples, families, and professionals.

I work internationally with clients from diverse backgrounds, offering a compassionate, thoughtful, and non-judgemental space to explore emotional challenges, relationships, identity, and life transitions.

How I Work:

My approach is collaborative, reflective, and grounded in understanding the deeper causes of distress, not only the symptoms. Together, we explore patterns, experiences, and relationships that shape how you feel, think, and respond to the world.

I draw on integrative, psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, and humanistic models. This means we may work with present-day difficulties while also exploring earlier experiences and unconscious processes that influence emotions, behaviour, and self-understanding.

My work is trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming, and inclusive.

I conduct all therapy session in English.

Areas of Experience and Focus:

I have extensive experience supporting clients with:

Anxiety, stress, low mood, and emotional overwhelm

Relationship difficulties, attachment patterns, and communication challenges

Trauma, complex life experiences, and chronic stress

Neurodiversity, including ADHD and Autism (diagnosed or suspected)

Identity exploration, self-esteem, and personal development

Work-related stress, burnout, and high-pressure roles:

For over a decade, I worked in senior clinical leadership roles within the UK National Health Service (NHS), including Senior Clinical Specialist and Clinical Lead positions. I am clinically trained in the diagnosis of Autism in both children and adults and have worked across Social Care, Education, Health, and private practice.

I also have significant experience supporting professionals working in high-pressure environments, including healthcare, military, police, and frontline services.

Neurodiversity-Affirming and Trauma-Informed Practice:

I work respectfully and affirmatively with neurodiverse clients, recognising both strengths and challenges. Whether you are exploring a possible diagnosis or already identify as neurodivergent, therapy is tailored to your needs, communication style, and lived experience.

My trauma-informed approach prioritises safety, choice, and pacing, ensuring therapy feels supportive, collaborative, and manageable.

Work, Leadership, and Life Transitions:

Alongside therapy, I have extensive experience in executive coaching, leadership development, and organisational psychology. I work with founders, entrepreneurs, and professionals navigating responsibility, decision-making, conflict, and organisational change.

This background allows me to support clients balancing emotional wellbeing with leadership, performance, and complex working environments.

Research, Leadership, and Community Work:

I have previously served as Chair of a mental health NGO, contributing to strategic leadership, service development, and mental health advocacy. I also collaborate with universities and international networks on training and research initiatives.

In addition, I currently support a charity by mentoring entrepreneurs and individuals in the early stages of starting and developing their own businesses, helping them build confidence, clarity, and sustainable direction.

Working Together:

At BetterHelp, I support individuals, couples seeking greater self-understanding, emotional resilience, and meaningful change.

Clients often describe our work as grounding, thoughtful, and practical. If you are looking for a therapeutic space that offers depth, clarity, and compassionate challenge, I would be glad to work with you.

I warmly welcome international clients and individuals from all backgrounds, including those from marginalised or high-pressure communities.

Professional experience

20 yrs in practice
Stress, Anxiety Relationships Family conflicts Trauma, Abuse Depression

Additional areas of focus: Addictions, LGBT, Grief, Intimacy-related issues, Eating disorders, Sleeping disorders, Parenting issues, Anger management, Self esteem, Career difficulties, Coping with life changes, Coaching, Compassion fatigue, ADHD, Abandonment, Adoption and foster care, Aging and geriatric issues, Attachment issues, Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Avoidant personality, Blended family issues, Cancer, Caregiver issues and stress, Chronic pain, illness, and disability, Codependency, Commitment issues, Communication problems, Control issues, Dependent personality, Dissociation, Divorce and separation, Domestic violence, Drug and alcohol addiction, Emptiness, Family of origin issues, Family problems, Fatherhood issues, Fertility issues, Forgiveness, Gender dysphoria, Guilt and shame, Hearing impaired, Hoarding, Hospice and end-of-life counseling, 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, Paranoia, Personality disorders, Phobias, Post-traumatic stress, 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, Social anxiety and phobia, Traumatic brain injury, Visually impaired, Workplace issues, Young adult issues

Clinical approaches: Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Existential Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems

Services offered

Video
Phone
Messaging

Credentials information

BACP Therapist - Registered Member MBACP #159085

Reviews

These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Brett Garcia. We don't pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with BetterHelp might be different.

He is fantastic

Written on Mar 13, 2026 after therapy with Brett for 1 year and 1 month on issues concerning addictions

I've had three sessions with Brett Garcia in the past three weeks. I find him to be so surprising in how he responds to things I've said, in a very good way. He gets me looking at things from very different points of view. He doesn't always answer me the way I would like him to - and it's teaching me a lot about myself even just in that way! He is refreshing. He challenges me, and I think he really sees me.

Written on Jan 27, 2026 after therapy with Brett for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, and relationship issues

Very kind, polite and a great listener.

Written on Jan 25, 2026 after therapy with Brett for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, eating disorders, self esteem, and coaching

This guy is good. I recommend him.

Written on Jan 09, 2026 after therapy with Brett for 2 weeks

Lovely bloke very insightful and hopefully he can help me in my professional ideas

Written on Jan 04, 2026 after therapy with Brett for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, addictions, lgbt, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, sleeping disorders, self esteem, career difficulties, and adhd

Brett Garcia is a tremendous professional, empathetic, insightful - probing or supportive in equal measure when need be. I've gained personal and professional insights and I'm grateful for the sessions we've had together.

Written on Nov 29, 2025 after therapy with Brett for 1 year and 4 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, grief, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, coping with life changes, coaching, compassion fatigue, and adhd