Pamela Port

Pamela Port is a BACP counsellor with 18 years of experience. She describes herself as an integrative psychotherapist and blends different approaches to fit each person. She aims to build a warm, respectful relationship and to work alongside people as they address anxiety, depression, eating concerns and trauma.

Clients come for many reasons, including stress, panic, relationship strain and feelings of emptiness. Pamela also works with issues around attachment, abandonment and body image, and she lists isolation and loneliness among the concerns she supports. Her practice makes space for hard conversations while also offering practical tools for day-to-day coping.

Her approach draws on psychodynamic ideas and client-centred care to understand patterns from the past. She also uses cognitive-behavioural techniques to spot and challenge unhelpful thoughts. Pamela explains things plainly and shares psychoeducation so people understand how their mind and body react.

Somatic and sensorimotor methods feature when trauma or intense anxiety is present. These approaches involve gentle body-based techniques to help the nervous system settle and to process held tension. Pamela pairs these methods with talking therapy rather than using them alone.

She aims to be compassionate but direct, offering challenges when needed alongside steady support. Her background includes work with eating disorders, addictions and complex trauma, and she brings an interest in neuroscience to explain what happens in the brain during stress and recovery.

How Pamela’s approaches translate to online therapy

Pamela combines client-centred and attachment-based ideas to make sense of how relationships shape current difficulties. Client-centred work focuses on listening, empathy and helping people find their own solutions, which can be done through conversation and reflective feedback online. Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds influence emotions and behaviour and is useful when clients want to understand patterns in relationships.

She also uses cognitive behavioural strategies to identify unhelpful thoughts and try out new responses. CBT techniques translate well to remote sessions because they involve specific exercises, thought records and behavioural experiments that can be set as between-session tasks. Choosing the right mix of approaches is collaborative - Pamela will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful and then adapt methods as therapy progresses.

The practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into a busy week and reducing travel time, which can make regular work easier to keep. If you are considering therapy, confirm the session formats available before booking so you know how appointments are arranged. Many people find online work lets them practise skills in everyday life and bring real situations into sessions for immediate discussion.